RFR: 8256594: Unexpected warning: SIGSEGV handler flags expected:SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO found:SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO [v2]

Coleen Phillimore coleenp at openjdk.java.net
Thu Nov 19 22:32:05 UTC 2020


On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 22:25:19 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> In the recent POSIX signal code cleanup (JDK-8253742) I misunderstood the role of the SIGNIFICANT_SIGNAL_MASK and removing its application causes -Xcheck:jni to report errors with the signal handler due to an unexpected bit in the sigaction.sa_flags field.
>> 
>> This fix restores the masking of that flag, for Linux only, and more clearly indicating what it is. I also augmented the flag printing code to show when an unexpected flag is present (and so avoid the mysterious "expected X found X" message).
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>> See bug report for more details.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>
> David Holmes has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Added missing mask of VMError::get_resetted_sigflags(sig)

So this looks like it matches the 3 places that 8253742 removed.

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Marked as reviewed by coleenp (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1309


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