RFR: 8308475: Make the thread dump files generated by jcmd Thread.dump_to_file jtreg failure handler action easily accessible

[Alan Bateman]

On Sun, 21 May 2023 09:19:47 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Can I please get a review of this change which proposes to improve the accessibility of the thread dump files that are generated by the `jcmd Thread.dump_to_file` command configured in the failure handler configurations? This addresses https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8308475. 
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> The changes in this PR include:
>  - Enhancement to `GatherProcessInfoTimeoutHandler` to allow configuring a `successArtifacts` action parameter which can be used to generate links to files that are generated by the failure handler commands.
>  - Introduction of a `%iterCount` token to allow ability to refer to the current iteration when the command is repeated
>  - The `jcmd Thread.dump_to_file` is now configured to create the thread dumps in `json` format. Additionally, it has now been configured to create the thread dumps 6 times, just like the `jstack` command.
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> Detailed explanation of the `successArtifacts` parameter and the `%iterCount` token is provided in the JBS comment here https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8308475?focusedCommentId=14583072&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14583072
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> Tests have been run locally with this change and tier1, tier2 and tier3 tests on CI system to verify this change works and doesn't cause regression.

@lmesnik Do you have cycles to look at this?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14071#issuecomment-1560501691