Staffan,

Looks good for me.

-Dmitry

On 2014-01-13 14:30, Staffan Larsen wrote:
> I’m still looking for a Review of this change (I know it’s nobody’s favorite 
> code…).
> 
> Thanks,
> /Staffan
> 
> On 20 dec 2013, at 12:58, Staffan Larsen <staffan.lar...@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> The DTrace static probe implementation in Hotspot was written with an 
>> earlier version of DTrace. With newer versions, DTrace can create a header 
>> file from the contents of the .d file that describes the probes. This newer 
>> version (called USDT2) has been used on OS X. Because we have had both 
>> versions active, the code has ended up looking ugly because of all the extra 
>> macros. 
>>
>> This is a first step in cleaning that up by moving the solaris 
>> implementation to use USDT2. The remaining step before USDT1 can be removed 
>> is to change the Linux system tap implementation to also use USDT2.
>>
>> What I have changed is:
>> - Update the solaris dtrace.make to generate the header files. I have used 
>> the same code as on bsd.
>> - While I was there, I removed a lot of commented out code from the bsd 
>> dtrace.make file.
>> - Updated the hotspot.d files on bsd and solaris so that they have the same 
>> contents.
>> - Fixed some compilation errors in compileBroker.cpp with const char*.
>> - May of the USDT2 macro invocations had an extra line break in them. This 
>> both looked ugly and confused the solaris compiler, so I removed them. This 
>> lead to a _lot_ of changes in jni.cpp - enough changes so that webrev 
>> couldn’t handle it, which is why some of the webrev views are broken for 
>> this file.
>> - 
>>
>> Testing: I have run the vm.dtrace.testlist on both Solaris and OS X.
>>
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/8030812/webrev.00/
>> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8030812
>>
>> Thanks,
>> /Staffan
> 


-- 
Dmitry Samersoff
Oracle Java development team, Saint Petersburg, Russia
* I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the sources.

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