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6830717: replay of compilations would help with debugging Summary: When java process crashed in compiler thread, repeat the compilation process will help finding root cause. This is done with using SA dump application class data and replay data from core dump, then use debug version of jvm to recompile the problematic java method. Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, sspitsyn Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com
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date Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:03:53 -0800
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The HotSpot Serviceability Agent (SA) is a debugger for hotspot core
dumps and hung processes. There is a read-only JDI (Java Debugger
Interface) implementation on top of SA. This is part of JDK product and
the classes are in $JDK/tools/sa-jdi.jar.

In addition, there are few serviceability tools in $JDK/bin, namely,
jstack (java stack trace tool), jmap (heap tool), jinfo (Java config
tool) and jsadebugd. The classes for these are also in sa-jdi.jar
file. sa-jdi.jar file is built along with hotspot (libjvm.so) on Solaris
and Linux platforms. On Windows platform, SA-JDI is not included and
serviceability tools do not use SA.

Apart from these, HotSpot SA consists of a number of tools that are
*not* included in JDK product bits.

The sources and makefile for all-of-SA (including non-productized stuff)
are under $HOTSPOT_WS/agent directory. The makefile $HOTSPOT/agent/make
directory and shell scripts (and batch files) are used to build and run
SA non-product tools. There is also documentation of SA under
$HOTSPOT/agent/doc directory.

To build complete SA, you need to have Rhino Mozilla jar (js.jar)
version 1.5R5 under $HOTSPOT/agent/src/share/lib directory. Rhino is
JavaScript interpreter written in Java. Rhino is used to implement SA
features such as

* SA command line debugger's JavaScript interface
 - refer to $HOTSPOT/agent/doc/clhsdb.html
 - refer to $HOTSPOT/agent/doc/jsdb.html
* SA simple object query language (SOQL) 
 - language to query Java heap. 

Rhino's "js.jar" is not included in hotspot source bundles. You need to
download it from http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/download.html.
 
Without js.jar, $HOTSPOT/agent/make/Makefile will fail to build. But,
note that sa-jdi.jar containing the productized portions of SA will
still be built when you build hotspot JVM.