RFR 8004124: Handle and/or warn about SI_KERNEL

[Coleen Phillimore]

This wiki page refers to 64 bit addresses and we've mostly seen this 
SI_KERNEL linux bug on 32 bit platforms.  I can't remember if we've ever 
seen it on 64 bit platforms.  If I exclude LP64 would you review this 
change?
thanks,
Coleen

On 06/20/2013 04:27 PM, Mikael Gerdin wrote:
> Coleen,
>
> On 06/20/2013 04:48 PM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>> Summary: Detect this crash in the signal handler and give a fatal error
>> message  instead of making us chase down bugs that don't reproduce
>>
>> This change also has more information for crash site from bug
>> https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8007019
>>
>> guarantee(cb->is_adapter_blob() || cb->is_method_handles_adapter_blob())
>> failed: exception happened outside interpreter, nmethods and vtable
>> stubs (1) <https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8007019>
>>
>> There used to be two places that had the same message so they were
>> qualified by (1) and (2).   The second one is gone.   Now this prints
>> the blob and pc.
>>
>> Tested with full vm.quick.testlist and the sets of jdi tests that failed
>> with -client -Xcomp and specjvm98 that used to fail with this signal
>> code.   I got one failure two days ago before this change but now it
>> won't fail with my new message or at all.
>
> The error message you added for SI_KERNEL puts the blame 
> unconditionally on the kernel.
> As I mentioned in the bug it's possible to cause this signal 
> combination by trying to access memory with an invalid memory address 
> on non-canonical form:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Canonical_form_addresses
>
> (sorry for the wikipedia link, I don't have the Intel X86_64 manual 
> page reference at hand)
>
> Basically, if we trash an object somewhere or the compiler does 
> something strange we may try to use a random value from memory as an 
> address and if that address is on non-canonical form we'll say that 
> the OS is broken when in fact it is probably our fault.
>
> /Mikael
>
>>
>> open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/8004124/
>> bug link at http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8004124
>> local bug link https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8004124
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Coleen
>