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

[Vitaly Davidovich]

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
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