From 84bc4767a4cd68fb52a36c6644bbec67c24b0e1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Volker Simonis <simonis@openjdk.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:26:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 8336258: Document the behavior of 'exclude' and 'compileonly'
 with respect to inlining

Reviewed-by: thartmann, jkarthikeyan
---
 src/hotspot/share/compiler/compilerOracle.cpp | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/hotspot/share/compiler/compilerOracle.cpp b/src/hotspot/share/compiler/compilerOracle.cpp
index a81d60c9fc4..d0479f3fdbb 100644
--- a/src/hotspot/share/compiler/compilerOracle.cpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/compiler/compilerOracle.cpp
@@ -637,6 +637,10 @@ static void usage() {
   tty->print_cr("and 'compileonly'. There is no priority of commands. Applying (a subset of) these");
   tty->print_cr("commands to the same method results in undefined behavior.");
   tty->cr();
+  tty->print_cr("The 'exclude' command excludes methods from top-level compilations as well as");
+  tty->print_cr("from inlining, whereas the 'compileonly' command only excludes methods from");
+  tty->print_cr("top-level compilations (i.e. they can still be inlined into other compilation units).");
+  tty->cr();
 };
 
 static int skip_whitespace(char* &line) {