On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:17:51 GMT, Yasumasa Suenaga <[email protected]> wrote:

> Earlier versions of the SA jmap tool supported dumping the Java heap in Graph 
> eXchange Language (GXL) format. However, neither jcmd nor jhsdb provides a 
> command-line option to invoke this feature now. In addition, the 
> sun.jvm.hotspot.utilities package, which contains HeapGXLWriter, is not 
> exported by the jdk.hotspot.agent module.
> 
> HeapGXLWriter seem to be no longer maintained and cannot handle flattened 
> objects introduced by Valhalla. Updating it to support flattened objects 
> would provide little benefit, since this feature is not exposed through the 
> current command-line tools.
> 
> This change passed following jtreg tests:
> - test/hotspot/jtreg/serviceability/sa
> - test/jdk/sun/tools/jcmd
> - test/jdk/sun/tools/jhsdb
> - test/jdk/sun/tools/jmap
> 
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Marked as reviewed by cjplummer (Reviewer).

src/jdk.hotspot.agent/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/tools/JMap.java line 74:

> 72:     public static final int MODE_PMAP = 3;
> 73:     public static final int MODE_HEAP_GRAPH_HPROF_BIN = 4;
> 74:     public static final int MODE_HEAP_GRAPH_GXL = 5; // retierd

Suggestion:

    public static final int MODE_HEAP_GRAPH_GXL = 5; // retired

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/33527#pullrequestreview-5723465378
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/33527#discussion_r4426824478

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