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package gov.nasa.jpf.search.heuristic;
import gov.nasa.jpf.Config;
import gov.nasa.jpf.vm.Path;
import gov.nasa.jpf.vm.VM;
/**
* Heuristic to maximize thread interleavings. It is particularly good at
* flushing out concurrency errors, since it schedules different threads
* as much as possible.
*
*/
public class Interleaving extends SimplePriorityHeuristic {
int historyLimit;
public Interleaving (Config config, VM vm) {
super(config,vm);
historyLimit = config.getInt("search.heuristic.thread_history_limit", -1);
}
/*
* heuristic based on how often, how long ago, and within how many
* live threads a certain thread did run
*/
protected int computeHeuristicValue () {
int aliveThreads = vm.getThreadList().getMatchingCount(aliveThread);
Path path = vm.getPath();
int pathSize = path.size();
int tid = vm.getCurrentThread().getId();
int h_value = 0;
if (aliveThreads > 1) { // otherwise there's nothing to interleave
for (int i= Math.max(0, pathSize - historyLimit); i<pathSize; i++) {
if (path.get(i).getThreadIndex() == tid) {
h_value += (pathSize - i) * aliveThreads;
}
}
}
return h_value;
}
}