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author amurillo
date Fri, 13 Dec 2013 09:40:58 -0800
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1 <html>
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2 <head>
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3 <title>
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4 Replay
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5 </title>
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6 </head>
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7 <body>
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9 <h1>Compiler replay</h1>
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10 <p>
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11 The compiler replay is a function to repeat the compiling process from a crashed java process in compiled method<br>
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12 This function only exists in debug version of VM
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13 </p>
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14 <h2>Usage</h2>
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15 <pre>
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16 First, use SA to attach to the core file, if succeeded, do
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17 hsdb&gt; dumpreplaydata &lt;address&gt; | -a | &lt;thread_id&gt; [&gt; replay.txt]
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18 create file replay.txt, address is address of Method, or nmethod(CodeBlob)
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19 hsdb&gt; buildreplayjars [all | boot | app]
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20 create files:
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21 all:
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22 app.jar, boot.jar
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23 boot:
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24 boot.jar
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25 app:
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26 app.jar
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27 exit SA now.
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28 Second, use the obtained replay text file, replay.txt and jar files, app.jar and boot.jar, using debug version of java
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29 java -Xbootclasspath/p:boot.jar -cp app.jar -XX:ReplayDataFile=&lt;datafile&gt; -XX:+ReplayCompiles ....
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30 This will replay the compiling process.
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32 With ReplayCompiles, the replay will recompile all the methods in app.jar, and in boot.jar to emulate the process in java app.
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34 notes:
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35 1) Most time, we don't need the boot.jar which is the classes loaded from JDK. It will be only modified when an agent(JVMDI) is running and modifies the classes.
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36 2) If encounter error as "&lt;flag&gt;" not found, that means the SA is using a VMStructs which is different from the one with corefile. In this case, SA has a utility tool vmstructsdump which is located at agent/src/os/&lt;os&gt;/proc/&lt;os_platform&gt;
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38 Use this tool to dump VM type library:
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39 vmstructsdump libjvm.so &gt; &lt;type_name&gt;.db
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41 set env SA_TYPEDB=&lt;type_name&gt;.db (refer different shell for set envs)