In Nightly testing of JDK8-JFR for 2013-05-16 some nsk/hprof tests failed on Linux-amd64 with SIGSEGV:
# Actual: /usr/bin/perl -I/export/local/common/testbase/8/vm/vm/src/nsk/share/hprof /export/local/common/testbase/8/vm/vm/src/nsk/hprof/share/run_hprof.pl /export/local/common/jdk/baseline/linux-amd64/bin/java -d64 -server -Xmixed -XX:+UnlockCommercialFeatures -XX:+FlightRecorder -XX:FlightRecorderOptions=defaultrecording=true,disk=true,dumponexit=true -XX:DefaultMaxRAMFraction=8 -XX:+CreateMinidumpOnCrash -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=256M -Xrunhprof:cpu=old,depth=1,file=/export/local/217926.JAVASE.NIGHTLY.VM.JFR_Baseline_Weekly_8.2013-05-16.linux-amd64_vm__server_mixed_nsk.hprof.testlist_!desktop.runTests/results/ResultDir/depth006/depth006.hprof.out nsk.hprof.options.depth.depth006.depth006
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
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# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00002b6e6cec48c0, pid=21103, tid=1077950784
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# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0) (build 1.8.0-ea-fastdebug-jfr-nightly-h4416-20130516-b88-b00)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.0-b32-fastdebug mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# V [libjvm.so+0xdb38c0] DeadlockCycle::print_on(outputStream*) const+0x4c0
Priority justification:
ILW = MMM => P3
Links to failures: http://vmsqe-app.russia.sun.com/surl/WE, http://vmsqe-app.russia.sun.com/surl/WF, http://vmsqe-app.russia.sun.com/surl/WG
Matching rules:
RULE nsk/hprof/options/depth/depth006 Crash SIGSEGV
RULE nsk/hprof/regression/Context/context003 Crash SIGSEGV
RULE nsk/hprof/regression/CrashTest/ct03t Crash SIGSEGV
# Actual: /usr/bin/perl -I/export/local/common/testbase/8/vm/vm/src/nsk/share/hprof /export/local/common/testbase/8/vm/vm/src/nsk/hprof/share/run_hprof.pl /export/local/common/jdk/baseline/linux-amd64/bin/java -d64 -server -Xmixed -XX:+UnlockCommercialFeatures -XX:+FlightRecorder -XX:FlightRecorderOptions=defaultrecording=true,disk=true,dumponexit=true -XX:DefaultMaxRAMFraction=8 -XX:+CreateMinidumpOnCrash -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=256M -Xrunhprof:cpu=old,depth=1,file=/export/local/217926.JAVASE.NIGHTLY.VM.JFR_Baseline_Weekly_8.2013-05-16.linux-amd64_vm__server_mixed_nsk.hprof.testlist_!desktop.runTests/results/ResultDir/depth006/depth006.hprof.out nsk.hprof.options.depth.depth006.depth006
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00002b6e6cec48c0, pid=21103, tid=1077950784
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0) (build 1.8.0-ea-fastdebug-jfr-nightly-h4416-20130516-b88-b00)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.0-b32-fastdebug mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# V [libjvm.so+0xdb38c0] DeadlockCycle::print_on(outputStream*) const+0x4c0
Priority justification:
ILW = MMM => P3
Links to failures: http://vmsqe-app.russia.sun.com/surl/WE, http://vmsqe-app.russia.sun.com/surl/WF, http://vmsqe-app.russia.sun.com/surl/WG
Matching rules:
RULE nsk/hprof/options/depth/depth006 Crash SIGSEGV
RULE nsk/hprof/regression/Context/context003 Crash SIGSEGV
RULE nsk/hprof/regression/CrashTest/ct03t Crash SIGSEGV