Crash with release_C_heap_structures

[David Holmes]

Hi Denis,

On 18/12/2014 11:31 PM, Denis Fokin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see a couple conversations on the list about release_C_heap_structures issues.
>
> I still get a lot of reports about crashes even with early access jdk8u40 on Mac OS X 10.10
>
> Process:               java [53007]
> Path: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_40.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
> Identifier:            net.java.openjdk.cmd
> Version:               1.0 (1.0)
> Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
> Parent Process:        idea [44131]
> Responsible:           idea [44131]
> User ID:               503
>
> Thread 8 Crashed:
> 0   libsystem_kernel.dylib        0x00007fff8e3fe282 __pthread_kill + 10
> 1   libsystem_c.dylib             0x00007fff9cadfb73 abort + 129
> 2   libsystem_malloc.dylib        0x00007fff965c9937 free + 428
> 3   libjvm.dylib                  0x00000001043340d1 InstanceKlass::release_C_heap_structures() + 499
> 4   libjvm.dylib                  0x000000010433b548 InstanceKlass::deallocate_contents(ClassLoaderData*) + 48
> 5   libjvm.dylib                  0x0000000104211f28 void MetadataFactory::free_metadata<InstanceKlass*>(ClassLoaderData*, InstanceKlass*) + 69
> 6   libjvm.dylib                  0x0000000104210f01 ClassLoaderData::free_deallocate_list() + 177
> 7   libjvm.dylib                  0x0000000104210f97 ClassLoaderDataGraph::do_unloading(BoolObjectClosure*) + 105
> 8   libjvm.dylib                  0x0000000104599da8 SystemDictionary::do_unloading(BoolObjectClosure*) + 18
> 9   libjvm.dylib                  0x00000001045265b6 PSParallelCompact::marking_phase(ParCompactionManager*, bool, ParallelOldTracer*) + 1322
> 10  libjvm.dylib                  0x0000000104527adc PSParallelCompact::invoke_no_policy(bool) + 1108
> 11  libjvm.dylib                  0x000000010452bdd8 PSScavenge::invoke() + 214
> 12  libjvm.dylib                  0x0000000104501217 ParallelScavengeHeap::failed_mem_allocate(unsigned long) + 39
> 13  libjvm.dylib                  0x000000010460f4fe VM_ParallelGCFailedAllocation::doit() + 74
> 14  libjvm.dylib                  0x0000000104615b05 VM_Operation::evaluate() + 79
> 15  libjvm.dylib                  0x0000000104614171 VMThread::evaluate_operation(VM_Operation*) + 223
> 16  libjvm.dylib                  0x00000001046145be VMThread::loop() + 808
> 17  libjvm.dylib                  0x0000000104613edd VMThread::run() + 121
> 18  libjvm.dylib                  0x00000001044efa42 java_start(Thread*) + 246
> 19  libsystem_pthread.dylib       0x00007fff9b0d52fc _pthread_body + 131
> 20  libsystem_pthread.dylib       0x00007fff9b0d5279 _pthread_start + 176
> 21  libsystem_pthread.dylib       0x00007fff9b0d34b1 thread_start + 13
>
> Has the issue been resolved at least in jdk9? If not is it something new or a well known issue?

I can't find any bugs reports relating to this, so it seems not to be a 
known issue. google search didn't turn up anything either.

Where has this been seen?

David

> Thank you,
>     Denis.
>