OpenJDK crash in PSPromotionManager::copy_to_survivor_space

Solution Unverified - Updated

Environment

  • OpenJDK 8

Issue

The JVM process crashes with the following in the fatal error log:

#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f50555973cc, pid=7856, tid=0x00007f5043ba2700
#
# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (8.0_342-b07) (build 1.8.0_342-b07)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (25.342-b07 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# V  [libjvm.so+0x9b43cc]  oopDesc* PSPromotionManager::copy_to_survivor_space<false>(oopDesc*)+0x70c
...
Stack: [0x00007f5043aa3000,0x00007f5043ba3000],  sp=0x00007f5043ba1c30,  free space=1019k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
V  [libjvm.so+0x9b43cc]  oopDesc* PSPromotionManager::copy_to_survivor_space<false>(oopDesc*)+0x70c
V  [libjvm.so+0x9b3708]  PSPromotionManager::drain_stacks_depth(bool)+0x718
V  [libjvm.so+0x9b771d]  ThreadRootsTask::do_it(GCTaskManager*, unsigned int)+0x9d
V  [libjvm.so+0x5df572]  GCTaskThread::run()+0x1a2
V  [libjvm.so+0x93e942]  java_start(Thread*)+0xf2
...
Java Threads: ( => current thread )
...
=>0x00005611a3685800 (exited) GCTaskThread [stack: 0x00007f5043aa3000,0x00007f5043ba3000] [id=7862]
...
Event: 1.332 Executing VM operation: ParallelGCFailedAllocation
Event: 1.332 Thread 0x00005611a572a800 DEOPT PACKING pc=0x00007f5044d14923 sp=0x00007f502f960a70
Event: 1.332 Thread 0x00005611a572a800 DEOPT UNPACKING pc=0x00007f50449ab4c4 sp=0x00007f502f960958 mode 0
Event: 1.333 Thread 0x00005611a4f20800 Thread added: 0x00005611a4f20800

The fatal error log shows the G1 collector is specified, but the JVM uses the parallel collector:

Heap:
 PSYoungGen      total 917504K, used 786432K [0x00000007b0800000, 0x00000007f0800000, 0x00000007f0800000)
  eden space 786432K, 100% used [0x00000007b0800000,0x00000007e0800000,0x00000007e0800000)
  from space 131072K, 0% used [0x00000007e8800000,0x00000007e8800000,0x00000007f0800000)
  to   space 131072K, 4% used [0x00000007e0800000,0x00000007e0e08070,0x00000007e8800000)
 ParOldGen       total 2097152K, used 0K [0x0000000730800000, 0x00000007b0800000, 0x00000007b0800000)
  object space 2097152K, 0% used [0x0000000730800000,0x0000000730800000,0x00000007b0800000)
...
jvm_args: --Xms3072m -Xmx3072m -XX:MetaspaceSize=96m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m -XX:+UseG1GC ...

Root Cause

The issue seems to be with allocating memory to the old space for promotion (ParallelGCFailedAllocation).

Diagnostic Steps

Test with the -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch JVM option to force the OS to wire up all the memory on startup.

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