Issues with JDK 9 crashing itself and the operating system

[Jeronimo Backes]

Hello, my name is Jeronimo and I'm the author of the univocity-parsers
library (https://github.com/uniVocity/univocity-parsers) and I'm writing to
you by recommendation of Erik Duveblad.

Basically, I recently installed the JDK 9 distributed by Oracle on my
development computer and when I try to build my project (with a simple `mvn
clean install` command) the JVM crashes with:


# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f18b96c52f0, pid=3865, tid=3904
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (9.0+181) (build 9+181)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (9+181, mixed mode,
tiered, compressed oops, g1 gc, linux-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# V  [libjvm.so+0x9292f0]
JVMCIGlobals::check_jvmci_flags_are_consistent()+0x120
#
# Core dump will be written. Default location: Core dumps may be
processed with "/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %P %u %g %s %t %c
%e" (or dumping to
/home/jbax/dev/repository/univocity-parsers/core.3865)
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/jbax/dev/repository/univocity-parsers/hs_err_pid3865.log
#
# Compiler replay data is saved as:
# /home/jbax/dev/repository/univocity-parsers/replay_pid3865.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://bugreport.java.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
#


The hs_err files generated are available here
https://github.com/uniVocity/univocity-parsers/files/1326484/jdk_9_crash2.zip
<https://github.com/uniVocity/univocity-parsers/files/1324326/jdk_9_crash.zip>.
This zip also contains the pom.xml file I used. *The build succeeded 4
times before the JVM crashed*.

Yesterday I had the crash happen 100% of the time, but the CPU was
overclocked to 3.6Ghz (never had any issue with it though) and saved the
error file here:
https://github.com/uniVocity/univocity-parsers/files/1324326/jdk_9_crash.zip.
I created an issue on github to investigate this:
https://github.com/uniVocity/univocity-parsers/issues/189. There Erik
mentioned that:

*"Looking at the hs_err file, the stack trace is "wrong", a C2 Compiler
Thread can't call JVMCIGlobals::check_jvmci_flags_are_consistent (and the
value of the register RIP does not correspond to any instruction in the
compiled version of that function). This makes me suspect that something
could be wrong with your CPU, the CPU should not have jumped to this memory
location."*

Things still fail with stock hardware settings. More details about my
environment :

*OS, Maven and Java versions:*

[jbax at linux-pc ~]$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.2.5 (12a6b3acb947671f09b81f49094c53f426d8cea1;
2014-12-15T03:59:23+10:30)
Maven home: /home/jbax/dev/apache-maven
Java version: 9, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /home/jbax/dev/jdk9
Default locale: en_AU, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "4.12.13-1-manjaro", arch: "amd64", family:
"unix"
[jbax at linux-pc ~]$

*Hardware:*
[jbax at linux-pc univocity-parsers]$ lscpu
Architecture:        x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):      32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:          Little Endian
CPU(s):              16
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-15
Thread(s) per core:  2
Core(s) per socket:  8
Socket(s):           1
NUMA node(s):        1
Vendor ID:           AuthenticAMD
CPU family:          23
Model:               1
Model name:          AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core Processor
Stepping:            1
CPU MHz:             1550.000
CPU max MHz:         3000.0000
CPU min MHz:         1550.0000
BogoMIPS:            6001.43
Virtualization:      AMD-V
L1d cache:           32K
L1i cache:           64K
L2 cache:            512K
L3 cache:            8192K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0-15
Flags:               fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt
pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid
aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt
aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm
sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core
perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_l2 mwaitx hw_pstate vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2
smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves
clzero irperf arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean
flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic overflow_recov
succor smca

*On an unrelated note*, I use an old java application that crashes the
entire OS for me when Java 9 is used: http://www.jinchess.com/download

It's just a matter of downloading, unpacking and trying to start it with
jin-2.14.1/jin

The OS crashes and I have to hard-reset the computer. It works just fine if
revert back to Java 6, 7 or 8.

I thought you'd might want to investigate what is going on. Let me know if
you need more information.

Best regards,

Jeronimo.



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