RFR 8004124: Handle and/or warn about SI_KERNEL

[Mikael Gerdin]

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