During Promotion testing of JDK8 b100 on Linux-ia32 the VM crashed with this error message:

#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xf6f84f32, pid=31474, tid=2775579456
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0-b100) (build 1.8.0-ea-b100)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (25.0-b42 mixed mode linux-x86 )
# Problematic frame:
# V [libjvm.so+0x731f32] StealTask::do_it(GCTaskManager*, unsigned int)+0x1e2
#
# Core dump written. Default location: /export/local/aurora/sandbox/results/ResultDir/stress_009/core or core.31474
#
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# http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
#

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Current thread (0xf661d000): GCTaskThread [stack: 0xa567f000,0xa5700000] [id=31488]

siginfo:si_signo=SIGSEGV: si_errno=0, si_code=1 (SEGV_MAPERR), si_addr=0x00000000;;

Registers:
EAX=0x86d52e01, EBX=0xab754e94, ECX=0x86d52e73, EDX=0x00000000
ESP=0xa56ff0f0, EBP=0xa56ff118, ESI=0xa28f8518, EDI=0xa56ff104
EIP=0xf6f84f32, EFLAGS=0x00010246, CR2=0x00000000

Top of Stack: (sp=0xa56ff0f0)
0xa56ff0f0: f6611380 a28f8d40 a56ff100 f6c92a01
0xa56ff100: f7110008 ab754e94 79504dc0 a5572130
0xa56ff110: f661d000 00000001 a56ff1a8 f6c5ba06
0xa56ff120: a5572130 f6611338 00000009 00000000
0xa56ff130: 00000001 f719b551 00000000 00000000
0xa56ff140: f7110052 f661d298 f661d2a0 f661d68c
0xa56ff150: f661d280 000003ec f661d000 f661d690
0xa56ff160: f661d6b0 f661d6b8 f661d7a4 000000ec

(more, hs_err file attached, core file in results directory)

Test history shows that the test also failed with SIGSEGV on Solaris-amd64 in b100 and on Linux-amd64 in b95

Priority justification:
Impact: High, crash
Likelihood: Low, seems quite intermittent
Workaround: High, Not available/unknown
ILW = HLH => P2

Link to failure: http://vmsqe-app.russia.sun.com/surl/14

Link to test history: http://vmsqe-app.russia.sun.com/surl/15

Matching rule:
RULE stress/stress_009 Crash SIGSEGV