JVM crash in String.compareTo(Object) on AVX2 processor

Solution Unverified - Updated

Environment

  • OpenJDK 8
    • Adoptium Temurin
    • Oracle
    • Red Hat build of OpenJDK
  • x86
  • AVX2

Issue

  • JVM crashes with the following in the fatal error log header:
# Problematic frame:
# J 3917 C2 java.lang.String.compareTo(Ljava/lang/Object;)I (9 bytes) @ 0x00007f414557b275 [0x00007f414557b1a0+0xd5]

Resolution

Add the following JVM option to turn off the use of AVX instructions:

-XX:UseAVX=0

Root Cause

Content from bugs.openjdk.org is not included.JDK-8240913: String.compareTo(Object) crash due to broken RAX

There is a hardware issue with AVX2 instructions.

By default, the JVM selects the highest-supported version of AVX available.

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