RFR: 8187577: JVM crash during gc doing concurrent marking

[Poonam Parhar]

Adding Coleen to this RFR.

On 2/2/2018 11:41 AM, Poonam Parhar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please review this fix for a G1GC crash occurring during concurrent 
> marking.
>
> Bug: JDK-8187577: <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8187577> 
> JVM crash during gc doing concurrent marking
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~poonam/8187577/webrev.00/
>
> Problem:
> A klass that has been considered unreachable by G1, can be looked up 
> in the CLD/SD, and its _java_mirror or _class_loader can be stored in 
> a root or any other reachable object making it alive again. Whenever a 
> klass is resurrected in this manner, the SATB part of G1 needs to be 
> notified about this, otherwise the concurrent marking remark phase 
> will wrongly unload that klass.
>
> In this particular crash, while a G1 is doing concurrent marking and 
> has prepared its list of unreachable classes, JVMTI on a Java thread 
> traverses classes in the CLD and stores thread-local JNIHandles for 
> the java_mirror of the loaded classes. G1 does not have knowledge of 
> these thread-local JNIHandles, and in the remark phase it unloads 
> classes as per its prior knowledge of unreachable classes. But when 
> these JNIHandles are later scanned, it leads to a crash.
>
> Solution:
> Inform G1's SATB that a klass has been resurrected and it should not 
> be unloaded.
>
> Testing:
> - Customer verification testing
> - mach5 jdk-tier1-3, hs-tier1-2
>
> Thanks,
> Poonam
>
>

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