RFR: 8341295: Add some useful debugging APIs to the debug agent [v2]

Chris Plummer cjplummer at openjdk.org
Fri Oct 4 20:08:39 UTC 2024


On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 02:20:48 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplummer at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The following APIs are useful when debugging the debug agent. Calls to them can be added to the code as needed (temporarily) to aid in debugging issues. They were taken from `test/lib/jdk/test/lib/jvmti/jvmti_common.hpp` and modified to better fit the needs and coding style of the debug agent.
>> 
>> char* translateThreadState(jint flags);
>> char* getThreadName(jthread thread);
>> char* getMethodName(jmethodID method);
>> void printStackTrace(jthread thread);
>> void printThreadInfo(jthread thread);
>> 
>> I made use of them while working on a couple of recent bugs and found them very useful. 
>> 
>> Tested by running all debugging tests on all supported platforms, and also running tier2, tier3, and tier5 svc ci test tasks.
>
> Chris Plummer has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Fix indent

Thanks for the reviews Alex and Serguei!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21299#issuecomment-2394490693


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