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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
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+ *
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+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
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+ */
+
+import static jdk.test.lib.Asserts.*;
+import gc.testlibrary.PerfCounter;
+import gc.testlibrary.PerfCounters;
+
+
+/* @test TestGenerationPerfCounter
+ * @bug 8080345
+ * @requires vm.gc=="null"
+ * @library /test/lib /
+ * @summary Tests that the sun.gc.policy.generations returns 2 for all GCs.
+ * @modules java.base/jdk.internal.misc
+ *          java.compiler
+ *          java.management/sun.management
+ *          jdk.internal.jvmstat/sun.jvmstat.monitor
+ * @run main/othervm -XX:+UsePerfData -XX:+UseSerialGC TestGenerationPerfCounter
+ * @run main/othervm -XX:+UsePerfData -XX:+UseParallelGC TestGenerationPerfCounter
+ * @run main/othervm -XX:+UsePerfData -XX:+UseG1GC TestGenerationPerfCounter
+ * @run main/othervm -XX:+UsePerfData -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC TestGenerationPerfCounter
+ */
+public class TestGenerationPerfCounter {
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        long numGenerations =
+            PerfCounters.findByName("sun.gc.policy.generations").longValue();
+        assertEQ(numGenerations, 2L);
+    }
+}