There are a lot of C1 related failures were found during promotion testing of JDK8 b110:
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# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
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# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb6d1040e, pid=18444, tid=2479881024
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# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0-b110) (build 1.8.0-ea-b110)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (25.0-b52 compiled mode, sharing linux-x86 )
# Problematic frame:
# V [libjvm.so+0x1a740e] CompilationPolicy::can_be_compiled(methodHandle, int)+0x14e
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VM options set for all such failures:
-client -Xcomp -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:+UnlockCommercialFeatures -XX:+FlightRecorder -XX:FlightRecorderOptions=defaultrecording=true,disk=true,dumponexit=true -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=256M