8u144 hotspot fails to reach safepoint due to compiler thread - VM frozen

[dean.long at oracle.com]

 From a quick search, this sounds similar to 8085965.  I wonder if 
another circularity in the siblings list has been created somehow.  Can 
you check for that with gdb?

dl


On 10/31/17 11:08 AM, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have some colleagues who appear to be running into 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8059128 on Oracle JDK 8u144 
> (Linux, x86-64).  Naturally, there's no reproducer but they've seen 
> this happen several times in the last couple of months.
>
> The symptom is the JVM becomes unresponsive - the application is not 
> servicing any traffic, and jstack doesn't work without the force 
> option.  jstack output (with native frames) captured some time apart 
> shows the compiler thread either in Parse::do_all_blocks -> 
> do_one_block -> do_one_bytecode -> ... 
> InstanceKlass::has_finalizable_subclass -> 
> Dependencies::find_finalizable_subclass or <same as the previous one> 
> ... Dependencies::has_finalizable_subclass() -> Klass::next_sibling()
>
> I see that 8059128 was closed as Incomplete, but it does look like 
> there's a real issue here.  Has anyone looked into this further or has 
> any new thoughts/ideas?
>
> My understanding is the working theory is it's related to some data 
> race between class unloading and the compiler thread observing an 
> inconsistent (corrupt?) type hierarchy.  I see 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8114823 is also noted as 
> possibly related - the app we're having trouble with is using G1, but 
> class unloading isn't disabled of course.  Is there some work around 
> to reduce the likelihood of having the compiler thread and GC cross 
> paths like this?
>
> Let me know if you need more info.
>
> Thanks