Open JDK8 fast-debug : crashes on Solaris Sparc T4 machines

[Phil Race]

The README-builds.html file specifies SS12 Update 1 + a bunch of patches
There's probably a good reason for all of that and new architectures often
need compiler fixes,  so does the same occur if you upgrade and patch ?

-phil.

On 2/12/2014 7:48 AM, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
> I noticed when building Open JDK 8 fast-debug with Sun Studio 12 on Solaris Sparc,
> the VM crashes early when executed on T4 based machines (both T4 based Solaris Sparc10 and 11 machines);
> I cannot see the issue on older Sparc processors or Fujitsu SPARC64.
> The  Crashes look like this :
>
>
>    <maindir>/results/SS12/images/j2sdk-image/bin/java -version
> # To suppress the following error report, specify this argument
> # after -XX: or in .hotspotrc:  SuppressErrorAt=/jni.cpp:278
> #
> # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
> #
> #  Internal Error (/net/usr.work/d040975/open_jdk/jdk8_2/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims/jni.cpp:278), pid=27252, tid=2
> #  guarantee(klass_hash_ok(k, id)) failed: Bug in native code: jfieldID class must match object
> #
> # JRE version:  (8.0) (build )
> # Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (25.0-b69-fastdebug mixed mode solaris-sparc compressed oops)
> # Core dump written. Default location: //core or core.27252
> #
> # An error report file with more information is saved as:
> # //hs_err_pid27252.log
> #
> # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
> #   http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
> #
> Current thread is 2
> Dumping core ...
> Abort (core dumped)
>
> With Stack in the hs_err file  :
>
> ---------------  T H R E A D  ---------------
>
> Current thread (0x0000000100111800):  JavaThread "main" [_thread_in_vm, id=2, stack(0xffffffff7e200000,0xffffffff7e300000)]
>
> Stack: [0xffffffff7e200000,0xffffffff7e300000],  sp=0xffffffff7e2fdd50,  free space=1015k
> Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
> V  [libjvm.so+0xfc8824]  void VMError::report_and_die()+0x504
> V  [libjvm.so+0x66ee70]  void report_vm_error(const char*,int,const char*,const char*)+0x78
> V  [libjvm.so+0x925798]  void jfieldIDWorkaround::verify_instance_jfieldID(Klass*,_jfieldID*)+0xa8
> V  [libjvm.so+0x8f07a8]  _jfieldID*jfieldIDWorkaround::to_instance_jfieldID(Klass*,int)+0x60
> V  [libjvm.so+0x953b8c]  jni_GetFieldID+0x52c
> C  [libjava.so+0xe46c]  Java_java_io_FileInputStream_initIDs+0x44
> j  java.io.FileInputStream.initIDs()V+-373565320
> j  java.io.FileInputStream.initIDs()V+0
> j  java.io.FileInputStream.<clinit>()V+0
> v  ~StubRoutines::call_stub
> V  [libjvm.so+0x8fe0bc]  void JavaCalls::call_helper(JavaValue*,methodHandle*,JavaCallArguments*,Thread*)+0x4e4
> V  [libjvm.so+0x82daac]  void InstanceKlass::call_class_initializer_impl(instanceKlassHandle,Thread*)+0x224
> V  [libjvm.so+0x82d7f8]  void InstanceKlass::call_class_initializer(Thread*)+0x24
> V  [libjvm.so+0x82c260]  void InstanceKlass::initialize_impl(instanceKlassHandle,Thread*)+0xb08
> V  [libjvm.so+0x82a82c]  void InstanceKlass::initialize(Thread*)+0x5c
> V  [libjvm.so+0x8dad34]  void InterpreterRuntime::_new(JavaThread*,ConstantPool*,int)+0x254
> j  java.lang.System.initializeSystemClass()V+37
> v  ~StubRoutines::call_stub
> V  [libjvm.so+0x8fe0bc]  void JavaCalls::call_helper(JavaValue*,methodHandle*,JavaCallArguments*,Thread*)+0x4e4
> V  [libjvm.so+0x8fd31c]  void JavaCalls::call_static(JavaValue*,KlassHandle,Symbol*,Symbol*,JavaCallArguments*,Thread*)+0x104
> V  [libjvm.so+0x8fd8bc]  void JavaCalls::call_static(JavaValue*,KlassHandle,Symbol*,Symbol*,Thread*)+0x64
> V  [libjvm.so+0xf27f80]  void call_initializeSystemClass(Thread*)+0x80
> V  [libjvm.so+0xf3317c]  int Threads::create_vm(JavaVMInitArgs*,bool*)+0x76c
> V  [libjvm.so+0x9772ec]  JNI_CreateJavaVM+0xe4
> C  [libjli.so+0x7d9c]  InitializeJVM+0x104
> C  [libjli.so+0x6220]  JavaMain+0x68
>
>
>
> When building with Sun Studio 12u1 (instead of 12) the crash does not occur, see :
>
>    <maindir>/results/SS12u1/images/j2sdk-image/bin/java -version
> openjdk version "1.8.0-internal-fastdebug"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-internal-fastdebug-d040975_2014_02_12_15_29-b00)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b69-fastdebug, mixed mode)
>
>
> Is this a known issue with SunStudio12 build results on T4 Processors ?
>
> I changed the used optimization flags in the fast-debug build from  -xO4  to -xO2 and the problem disappeared.
> Could this  be done in the configuration  when SunStudio 12 is detected ?
>
> Thanks, Matthias