[concurrency-interest] JVM crash when using Unsafe to read/write bytes in Java 8 (no crash with same code in Java 7)

[Vladimir Ivanov]

FYI, I filed JDK-8058744 [1] to track that.

Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8058744

On 9/18/14, 6:51 PM, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:
> Sounds like it.  Given you have a self-contained repro, you can forward
> this email thread (or CC them) to hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net
> <mailto:hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net>, and see if anyone from
> the JIT team has any ideas.
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Gaëlle Guimezanes <ggu at quartetfs.com
> <mailto:ggu at quartetfs.com>> wrote:
>
>     We're nearing it down... disabling OSR compilation or tiered
>     compilation makes the test run correctly.
>     So if the options work as I understood, this means the problem is in
>     C1, only when doing OSR.
>
>     On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Vitaly Davidovich
>     <vitalyd at gmail.com <mailto:vitalyd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Try turning off tiered compilation (-XX:-TieredCompilation) and
>         pass -server to the launcher.  I *think* that should do it.
>
>         However, I think you ran this with C1 just without OSR
>         compilation (I believe -Xcomp would do that), so this seems to
>         point at an OSR compile.  You can try disabling OSR compilation
>         (irrespective of C1 or C2): -XX:-UseOnStackReplacement
>
>         On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Gaëlle Guimezanes
>         <ggu at quartetfs.com <mailto:ggu at quartetfs.com>> wrote:
>
>             Running the test class with -Xint or -Xcomp makes the test
>             work with no crash, so the problem apparently is with OSR
>             compiles...
>
>             However I don't know how to use only the C2 compiler, can
>             you explain how to do it?
>
>             Thanks
>             Gaelle
>
>
>
>             On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Vitaly Davidovich
>             <vitalyd at gmail.com <mailto:vitalyd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                 Looks like it's C1 OSR compiled code when it crashes.
>                 Have you tried running this only in interpreter and only
>                 using C2 compiler? Can also try disabling OSR compiles.
>                 Just to rule out any miscompilation ...
>
>                 Sent from my phone
>
>                 On Sep 18, 2014 8:09 AM, "Gaëlle Guimezanes"
>                 <ggu at quartetfs.com <mailto:ggu at quartetfs.com>> wrote:
>
>                     Hi Stanimir,
>
>                     Thanks for the suggestion, but I've tried allocating
>                     extra 16 bytes and even extra 1024 bytes, and it
>                     still fails.
>
>                     Gaelle
>
>                     On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Stanimir Simeonoff
>                     <stanimir at riflexo.com <mailto:stanimir at riflexo.com>>
>                     wrote:
>
>                         Hi,
>
>                         I suppose the problem occurs due to the last few
>                         (less than 8) bytes are addressed. Probably
>                         getByte(address) won't read just a byte but a
>                         32/64 word and mask+shift it.
>                         Try to allocate extra 16 bytes instead of 8.
>
>                         Stanimir
>
>                         On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Gaëlle
>                         Guimezanes <ggu at quartetfs.com
>                         <mailto:ggu at quartetfs.com>> wrote:
>
>                             Hello,
>
>                             I am sorry this is not really a concurrency
>                             problem since it can be reproduced using
>                             only one thread, but I didn't really know
>                             where to discuss this. Since many of you use
>                             Unsafe I thought you might be able to help
>                             me understand what's happening or direct me
>                             to the correct mailing list.
>
>                             I have a strange behaviour using Unsafe in
>                             Java 1.8.0_20.
>                             When I use getByte/putByte to manipulate
>                             bits, my JVM crashes (access violation).
>                             But when I use getLong/putLong for the same
>                             purpose it works correctly (even though I
>                             have allocated exactly the same amount of
>                             memory).
>                             Also, when using Java 1.7.0_67 to compile
>                             and run the same source code, both the
>                             getByte/putByte and the getLong/putLong
>                             approaches work correctly.
>
>                             I have attached a simple test class
>                             (DirectMemoryCrash.java) for reproducing the
>                             problem: you can run it with no argument for
>                             the getByte/putByte version, or with
>                             "useLongs" arguments for
>                             the getLong/putLong version.
>
>                             I also have attached crash reports :
>                             hs_err_pid5480.log for the crash on windows
>                             hs_err_pid7210.log for the crash on linux
>
>                             Thank you for your attention,
>                             Best regards,
>                             Gaëlle Guimezanes.
>
>
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