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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2001, 2015, 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.
+ *
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+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
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+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ *
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+ *
+ */
+
+package sun.jvm.hotspot.utilities;
+
+import java.io.*;
+import java.util.*;
+import sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.*;
+import sun.jvm.hotspot.gc.shared.*;
+import sun.jvm.hotspot.memory.*;
+import sun.jvm.hotspot.oops.*;
+import sun.jvm.hotspot.runtime.*;
+
+/** Finds all paths from roots to the specified set of objects. NOTE:
+    currently only a subset of the roots known to the VM is exposed to
+    the SA: objects on the stack, static fields in classes, and JNI
+    handles. These should be most of the user-level roots keeping
+    objects alive. */
+
+public class LivenessAnalysis {
+  // Used for debugging this code
+  private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
+
+  private LivenessAnalysis() {}
+
+  public static LivenessPathList computeAllLivenessPaths(Oop target) {
+    LivenessPathList list = computeAllLivenessPaths(target, true);
+    if ((list == null) || (list.size() == 0)) {
+      // Dead object
+      return null;
+    }
+    return list;
+  }
+
+  //---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  // Internals only below this point
+  //
+
+  // Returns true if a new path was completed, otherwise false
+  // indicating there were no more paths to complete.
+  //
+  // The trimPathsThroughPopularObjects flag alters the behavior of
+  // the returned results. If true, then if multiple paths to
+  // different roots all go through a particular popular object, those
+  // paths will be truncated and only one (arbitrary one) will be be
+  // returned. On the other hand, if the target object itself is
+  // popular and there are multiple distinct paths to it (indicating
+  // that there are multiple objects pointing directly to it) then all
+  // of those paths will be reported.
+  private static LivenessPathList computeAllLivenessPaths(Oop target, boolean trimPathsThroughPopularObjects) {
+    ReversePtrs rev = VM.getVM().getRevPtrs();
+    if (rev == null) {
+      throw new RuntimeException("LivenessAnalysis requires ReversePtrs to have been computed");
+    }
+
+    // Currently the reverse pointer analysis returns non-null results
+    // only for live objects
+    if (rev.get(target) == null) {
+      // Object is dead
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    // HashSet of Oops acting as a bit mask indicating which ones have
+    // already been traversed
+    Set/*<Oop>*/ visitedOops = new HashSet/*<Oop>*/();
+
+      // IdentityHashMap of LivenessElements acting as a bit mask
+      // indicating which roots have already been traversed
+    Map/*<LivenessElement, LivenessElement>*/ visitedRoots =
+      new IdentityHashMap/*<LivenessElement, LivenessElement>*/();
+
+    visitedOops.add(target);
+
+    // Construct the initial LivenessPath
+    LivenessPathList list = new LivenessPathList();
+    {
+      LivenessPath path = new LivenessPath();
+      path.push(new LivenessPathElement(target, null));
+      list.add(path);
+    }
+
+    // Iterate until done
+    while (true) {
+      // See if there are any incomplete paths left
+      LivenessPath path = null;
+
+      for (int i = list.size() - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+        LivenessPath tmp = list.get(i);
+        if (!tmp.isComplete()) {
+          path = tmp;
+          break;
+        }
+      }
+
+      // If no incomplete paths left, return
+      if (path == null) {
+        return list;
+      }
+
+      // Try to complete this path
+
+      // Remove the path from the list of reported ones in
+      // anticipation of completing it
+      list.remove(path);
+
+      try {
+        // Fetch next set of reverse pointers for the last object on
+        // the list
+        ArrayList/*<LivenessPathElement>*/ nextPtrs =
+          rev.get(path.peek().getObj());
+
+        // Depending on exactly what the reverse pointers analysis
+        // yields, these results may be null, although currently they
+        // won't be
+        if (nextPtrs != null) {
+          // Iterate these
+          for (Iterator iter = nextPtrs.iterator(); iter.hasNext(); ) {
+            LivenessPathElement nextElement = (LivenessPathElement) iter.next();
+            // See whether we've visited this element yet
+            if ((nextElement.isRoot() && (visitedRoots.get(nextElement) == null)) ||
+                (!nextElement.isRoot() && !visitedOops.contains(nextElement.getObj()))) {
+              // Show we've visited this one
+              if (nextElement.isRoot()) {
+                visitedRoots.put(nextElement, nextElement);
+              } else {
+                visitedOops.add(nextElement.getObj());
+              }
+
+              // Create a new LivenessPath for each one
+              LivenessPath nextPath = path.copy();
+              nextPath.push(nextElement);
+
+              // Regardless of whether we found a root, put the
+              // original path back on the list because we're going to
+              // do depth-first searching rather than breadth-first
+              list.add(path);
+              list.add(nextPath);
+
+              // See whether this path is complete (i.e., it
+              // terminates in a root)
+              if (trimPathsThroughPopularObjects && nextElement.isRoot()) {
+                // Go back through the path list and remove all
+                // incomplete paths ending in any of the intermediate
+                // (non-root and non-terminal) nodes in this path.
+                // This has the effect of removing multiple paths
+                // going through popular objects.
+                for (int i = 1; i < nextPath.size() - 1; i++) {
+                  LivenessPathElement el = nextPath.get(i);
+                  int j = 0;
+                  while (j < list.size()) {
+                    LivenessPath curPath = list.get(j);
+                    // We can use an object identity since these
+                    // intermediate nodes are canonicalized via the
+                    // ReversePtrsAnalysis
+                    if (curPath.peek() == el) {
+                      list.remove(curPath);
+                    } else {
+                      j++;
+                    }
+                  }
+                }
+              }
+
+              // Do depth-first searching, not breadth-first
+              break;
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      } catch (Exception e) {
+        System.err.println("LivenessAnalysis: WARNING: " + e +
+                           " during traversal");
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}