OpenJDK 11.0.6 crashes on Windows with EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION immediately after starting

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Environment

  • OpenJDK 11.0.6
  • Windows
    *JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2

Issue

  • OpenJDK 11.0.6 crashes immediately after starting

Resolution

The following are possible workarounds:

  1. Add the following JVM option:
-XX:UseAVX=0

Note, it has been reported in some environments that adding this option results in JBoss EAP7.2 failing to start with the following error:

org.jboss.modules.ModuleNotFoundException: java.se
  1. Roll back to a prior version of OpenJDK 11 (e.g. 11.0.5.10-2).

Root Cause

This is a regression in OpenJDK 11.0.6 which causes the JRE to crash immediately with EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION on CPUs without Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX).

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Diagnostic Steps

Check EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION and Windows in thehs_error_pid file:

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION (0xc000001d) at pc=0x000002141ac90c06, pid=2764, tid=8772
#
# JRE version:  (11.0.6+10) (build )
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (11.0.6+10-LTS, mixed mode, tiered, compressed oops, g1 gc, windows-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# v  ~StubRoutines::call_stub

Verify the cpu information in the hs_error_pid file does not include avx. For example:

CPU:total 3 (initial active 3) (4 cores per cpu, 1 threads per core) family 6 model 85 stepping 4, cmov, cx8, fxsr, mmx, sse, sse2, sse3, tsc

The following is example cpu information for a cpu with AVX, for comparison:

CPU:total 8 (initial active 8) (4 cores per cpu, 2 threads per core) family 6 model 79 stepping 1, cmov, cx8, fxsr, mmx, sse, sse2, sse3, ssse3, sse4.1, sse4.2, popcnt, avx, avx2, aes, clmul, erms, rtm, 3dnowpref, lzcnt, ht, tsc, bmi1, bmi2, adx
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