os::write_memory_serialize_page crash (monitors) in JDK-8025568

[Stefan Karlsson]

On 10/01/2013 12:45 AM, Gerard Ziemski wrote:
> hi guys,
>
> Is anyone aware of any work in the past couple of months that touched 
> os::write_memory_serialize_page or related code (monitors), that would 
> explain the crash described in JDK-8025568 on Linux platform?

Could this be related to transparent huge pages? Could you try the 
reproducer with either -XX:-UseTransparentHugePages or run with the a 
build before the THP flag was introduced, e.g. JDK8-b105?

thanks,
StefanK

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> cheers
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