This PR renamed EI_GC_FINISH to EI_CLASS_UNLOAD and does some other minor cleanups related to EI_GC_FINISH.
The debug agent deals with 3 types of events: JVMTI (per the spec), JDWP (per the spec), and an event indexing that the debug agent refers to as EI (Event Index) events. We have the following EI_GC_FINISH event. The indexing is into the array of jdwp event handlers which are created when the debugger sends an EventRequest command. Note there is no EI_CLASS_UNLOAD event that maps to the JDWP CLASS_UNLOAD event, but instead we have: ` EI_GC_FINISH = 8,` And these are the mappings between EI_GC_FINISH and JDWP and JVMTI events case JVMTI_EVENT_GARBAGE_COLLECTION_FINISH: return EI_GC_FINISH; case JDWP_EVENT(CLASS_UNLOAD): return EI_GC_FINISH; index2jvmti[EI_GC_FINISH - EI_min] = JVMTI_EVENT_GARBAGE_COLLECTION_FINISH; index2jdwp[EI_GC_FINISH - EI_min] = JDWP_EVENT(CLASS_UNLOAD); So there is this odd relationship between EI_GC_FINISH and the JDWP CLASS_UNLOAD event. Note that JVMTI does not have a CLASS_UNLOAD (except for unused support in the extension mechanism), and JDWP has no GC_FINISH event. This relationship between EI_GC_FINISH and the JDWP CLASS_UNLOAD events stems from the fact that at one point JVMTI_EVENT_GARBAGE_COLLECTION_FINISH was used to trigger the synthesizing all of JDWP CLASS_UNLOAD events for classes that unloaded during the last GC. That is no longer the case, and instead each time a JVMTI OBJECT_FREE event is triggered for a Class instance, the JDWP CLASS_UNLOAD is generated. Since JDWP CLASS_UNLOAD maps to EI_GC_FINISH, we have the following: ` node = getHandlerChain(EI_GC_FINISH)->first;` By looking at this line of code, you would never guess that this is how you fetch the event handler chain for JDWP CLASS_UNLOAD EventRequests, but it is. To clean this up I renamed EI_GC_FINISH to EI_CLASS_UNLOAD. However, that still leaves the EI_GC_FINISH to JVMTI_EVENT_GARBAGE_COLLECTION_FINISH mapping to deal with. It's not needed anymore. When we get a JVMTI_EVENT_GARBAGE_COLLECTION_FINISH, this is all we ever do with it: static void JNICALL cbGarbageCollectionFinish(jvmtiEnv *jvmti_env) { LOG_CB(("cbGarbageCollectionFinish")); ++garbageCollected; LOG_MISC(("END cbGarbageCollectionFinish")); } So the event is not passed around at all, and doesn't trigger other events or mapping to a JDWP event. It is never used as an "event index". This means jvmti2EventIndex should assert if it is ever passed in, since following mapping should never be needed: case JVMTI_EVENT_GARBAGE_COLLECTION_FINISH: return EI_GC_FINISH; This is accomplished by simply deleting the above code, and failing through to the default error handling code. Also no longer needed is the following entry: index2jvmti[EI_GC_FINISH -EI_min] = JVMTI_EVENT_GARBAGE_COLLECTION_FINISH For this we just assign the entry to 0, which will result in an error if the entry is ever referenced. ------------- Commit messages: - fix extra whitespace - Rename EI_GC_FINISH to EI_CLASS_UNLOAD and other cleanups related to EI_GC_FINISH Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10887/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=10887&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8295303 Stats: 48 lines in 6 files changed: 19 ins; 3 del; 26 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10887.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk pull/10887/head:pull/10887 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10887