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+/*
+ * Copyright 2014 Google Inc.  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
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @test
+ * @bug 8062771 8016236
+ * @summary Test publication of Class objects via a data race
+ * @run testng ThreadSafety
+ */
+
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLClassLoader;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.concurrent.BrokenBarrierException;
+import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
+import java.util.concurrent.CyclicBarrier;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+import java.util.concurrent.Future;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
+import static java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.SECONDS;
+import static org.testng.Assert.*;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+/**
+ * A test resulting from an attempt to repro this failure (in guice):
+ *
+ * java.lang.NullPointerException
+ *   at sun.reflect.generics.visitor.Reifier.visitClassTypeSignature(Reifier.java:125)
+ *   at sun.reflect.generics.tree.ClassTypeSignature.accept(ClassTypeSignature.java:49)
+ *   at sun.reflect.generics.repository.ClassRepository.getSuperclass(ClassRepository.java:84)
+ *   at java.lang.Class.getGenericSuperclass(Class.java:692)
+ *   at com.google.inject.TypeLiteral.getSuperclassTypeParameter(TypeLiteral.java:99)
+ *   at com.google.inject.TypeLiteral.<init>(TypeLiteral.java:79)
+ *
+ * However, as one would expect with thread safety problems in reflection, these
+ * are very hard to reproduce.  This very test has never been observed to fail,
+ * but a similar test has been observed to fail about once in 2000 executions
+ * (about once every 6 CPU-hours), in jdk7 only.  It appears to be fixed in jdk8+ by:
+ *
+ * 8016236: Class.getGenericInterfaces performance improvement.
+ * (by making Class.genericInfo volatile)
+ */
+public class ThreadSafety {
+    public static class EmptyClass {
+        public static class EmptyGenericSuperclass<T> {}
+        public static class EmptyGenericSubclass<T> extends EmptyGenericSuperclass<T> {}
+    }
+
+    /** published via data race */
+    private Class<?> racyClass = Object.class;
+
+    private URL[] urls = ((URLClassLoader) ThreadSafety.class.getClassLoader()).getURLs();
+
+    private Class<?> createNewEmptyGenericSubclassClass() throws Exception {
+        URLClassLoader ucl = new URLClassLoader(urls, null);
+        return Class.forName("ThreadSafety$EmptyClass$EmptyGenericSubclass", true, ucl);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testRacy_getGenericSuperclass() throws Exception {
+        final int nThreads = 10;
+        final int iterations = 30;
+        final int timeout = 10;
+        final CyclicBarrier newCycle = new CyclicBarrier(nThreads);
+        final Callable<Void> task = new Callable<Void>() {
+            public Void call() throws Exception {
+                for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
+                    final int threadId;
+                    try {
+                        threadId = newCycle.await(timeout, SECONDS);
+                    } catch (BrokenBarrierException e) {
+                        return null;
+                    }
+                    for (int j = 0; j < iterations; j++) {
+                        // one thread publishes the class object via a data
+                        // race, for the other threads to consume.
+                        if (threadId == 0) {
+                            racyClass = createNewEmptyGenericSubclassClass();
+                        } else {
+                            racyClass.getGenericSuperclass();
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+                return null;
+            }};
+
+        final ExecutorService pool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(nThreads);
+        try {
+            for (Future<Void> future :
+                     pool.invokeAll(Collections.nCopies(nThreads, task))) {
+                try {
+                    future.get(iterations * timeout, SECONDS);
+                } catch (ExecutionException e) {
+                    // ignore "collateral damage"
+                    if (!(e.getCause() instanceof BrokenBarrierException)
+                        &&
+                        !(e.getCause() instanceof TimeoutException)) {
+                        throw e;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        } finally {
+            pool.shutdownNow();
+            assertTrue(pool.awaitTermination(2 * timeout, SECONDS));
+        }
+    }
+}