<div dir="ltr">I don't think it has anything to do with the user threads.<div>The crash was during the VM termination. The launcher initiated the termination (I guess through DestroyJavaVM or similar call), and crashed inside CMS. Following is the stack trace.</div><div><br></div><div><div>*** SIGSEGV (@(nil)), see go/cppdebug received by PID 782912 (TID 783045); stack trace: ***</div><div>PC: @     0x7fc61e2e1e6c  (unknown)  CMSCollector::collect_in_background()</div><div>    @          0x29f09a0       1312  FailureSignalHandler()</div><div>    @     0x7fc61e6fd147        208  os::Linux::chained_handler()</div><div>    @     0x7fc61e701994        336  JVM_handle_linux_signal</div><div>    @     0x7fc61e6f64b8         64  signalHandler()</div><div>    @     0x7fc621578340       1888  __restore_rt</div><div>    @     0x7fc61e2e92f9         48  ConcurrentMarkSweepThread::run()</div><div>    @     0x7fc61e6f78a2         64  java_start()</div><div>    @     0x7fc62156e800        176  start_thread</div><div>    @     0x7fc6211d22ed  (unknown)  clone</div><div><br></div></div><div>tcmalloc writes 0xcdcdcdcd when it deallocates the memory (in this case, Java heap), and core dump show that CMS thread was interpreting that word as an oop and crashed.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Jon Masamitsu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon.masamitsu@oracle.com" target="_blank">jon.masamitsu@oracle.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <div>On 11/4/2015 9:33 AM, Jungwoo Ha wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Unfortunately, we cannot provide the test publicly.
        <div>But we do have internal tests that triggers this bug, and
          got fixed with this patch.</div>
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    Can you describe the circumstances that provoke the bug?  Lots of
    concurrent threads?<br>
    Lots of concurrent work in progress?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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    Jon</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Jon
          Masamitsu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon.masamitsu@oracle.com" target="_blank">jon.masamitsu@oracle.com</a>></span>
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                <div>On 11/3/2015 5:32 PM, Jungwoo Ha wrote:<br>
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                  <div dir="ltr">Somehow I didn't receive Jon's email.
                    <div>We've first noticed this on JDK8, but I think
                      the bug is more triggered with the tcmalloc +
                      custom launcher.</div>
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              </span> Jungwoo,<br>
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              Do you have a test that exhibits the bug?<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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                  Jon</font></span><span><br>
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                    <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:14
                      PM, Carsten Varming <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:varming@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:varming@gmail.com" target="_blank">varming@gmail.com</a>></span>
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                        <div dir="ltr">Dear Jon,
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                          <div>I am pretty sure this has been that way
                            for a long time. I have never seen a
                            problem, but I would like to see Hotspot
                            shut down its threads as well.</div>
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                          <div>Carsten</div>
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                          <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 3, 2015
                            at 5:40 PM, Jon Masamitsu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon.masamitsu@oracle.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:jon.masamitsu@oracle.com" target="_blank">jon.masamitsu@oracle.com</a>></span>
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                              <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Jungwoo,<br>
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                                  Did you first see this bug in jdk8? 
                                  I'm wondering if it<br>
                                  was always broken.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
                                      <br>
                                      Jon<br>
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                                        <div>On 11/03/2015 01:14 PM,
                                          Jungwoo Ha wrote:<br>
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                                          <div dir="ltr">BUG: <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141356" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141356" target="_blank">https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141356</a>
                                            <div>Webrev: <a href="http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ejwha/8141356/webrev.00/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jwha/8141356/webrev.00/" target="_blank">http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jwha/8141356/webrev.00/</a></div>
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                                              <div>Inside before_exit(),
                                                it says </div>
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                                              <div><font face="monospace,
                                                  monospace">  // Stop
                                                  concurrent GC threads </font></div>
                                              <div><font face="monospace,
                                                  monospace"> 
                                                  Universe::heap()->stop(); </font></div>
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                                              <div>but GenCollectedHeap
                                                never implemented stop()
                                                method, and thus calling
                                                empty SharedHeap::stop()
                                                method. </div>
                                              <div>This causes CMS
                                                threads to run during
                                                the VM termination and
                                                ends up crashing. <br>
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                                              <div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">ConcurrentMarkSweepThread::stop() is currently a dead code and never gets called.</span><br>
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                                              <div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">The patch just implemented GenCollectedHeap::stop() to call </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">ConcurrentMarkSweepThread::stop().</span></div>
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                                              <div>Can someone sponsor
                                                this patch?</div>
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                                                  <div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Jungwoo

                                                      Ha | Google | <a href="mailto:jwha@google.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:jwha@google.com" target="_blank">jwha@google.com</a></span><br>
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                        <div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Jungwoo
                            Ha | Java Platform Team | <a href="mailto:jwha@google.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:jwha@google.com" target="_blank">jwha@google.com</a></span><br>
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            <div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Jungwoo Ha |
                Java Platform Team | <a href="mailto:jwha@google.com" target="_blank">jwha@google.com</a></span><br>
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