RFR(S): 8170548: VM may crash at startup because StdoutLog/StderrLog logging stream can be badly aligned
Volker Simonis
volker.simonis at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 10:35:52 UTC 2016
Hi,
can I please have a review and sponsor for the following fix:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/2016/8170548/
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8170548
Change "8146009: "pure virtual method called" with using new GC
logging mechanism" introduced a sophisticated initialization mechanism
for the logging stream. In order to avoid deconstruction of the
streams before the VM exits, it creates them with a placement new into
statically allocated memory:
static bool initialized;
static char stdoutmem[sizeof(LogStdoutOutput)];
static char stderrmem[sizeof(LogStderrOutput)];
LogStdoutOutput &StdoutLog = reinterpret_cast<LogStdoutOutput&>(stdoutmem);
LogStderrOutput &StderrLog = reinterpret_cast<LogStderrOutput&>(stderrmem);
LogFileStreamInitializer::LogFileStreamInitializer() {
if (!initialized) {
::new (&StdoutLog) LogStdoutOutput();
::new (&StderrLog) LogStderrOutput();
initialized = true;
}
}
Unfortunately it is not guaranteed, that the static memory (which is a
char array) is well-aligned for the stream objects. Actually, the C++
standard only defines that it has to be at least 'char' aligned which
is obviously not enough for a stream object.
When building 'slowdebug' on Solaris with SS12u4 we indeed observed
reproducible crashes during VM initialization because of this issue.
The fix is easy - just wrap the character arrays into unions to align
them appropriately.
Thank you and best regards,
Volker
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