On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 08:24:19 GMT, Kevin Walls <kev...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> The Permissions in DCmds relate to remote usage over JMX.
> "monitor" is generally for reading information, and "control" is generally
> for making changes.
> The DCmds for changing compiler directives should have "control" as the
> required permission.
>
> Tests in test/hotspot/jtreg/serviceability/dcmd/compiler and
> test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/compilercontrol still pass with this change.
Right, I don't think we test this remotely, and I don't think we test it with
permissions.
We have
test/hotspot/jtreg/serviceability/dcmd/compiler/CompilerDirectivesDCMDTest.java
which uses test/lib/jdk/test/lib/dcmd/JMXExecutor.java
...where JMXExecutor implements a CommandExecutor passed to the test's run
method
and the test does things like: executor.execute("Compiler.directives_clear");
CompilerDirectivesDCMDTest currently tests local usage in the running VM, which
is fine and this change does not affect it.
I don't really think this feature (remote, permissions) is likely to be
actively used, as it is not well documented, so this change is just to try and
correct the record of the intent of the feature. I think additional testing
should come as a next step as we make changes to the implementation required by
the upcoming removal of Security Manager and related APIs.
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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13262#issuecomment-1493278465
