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  2. JDK-8170548

VM may crash at startup because StdoutLog/StderrLog logging stream can be badly aligned

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    • Resolution: Fixed
    • P3
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      Change "8146009: "pure virtual method called" with using new GC logging mechanism" introduced a sophisticated initialization mechanism for the logging stream. In order to avoid deconstruction of the streams before the VM exits, it creates them with a placement new into statically allocated memory:

      static bool initialized;
      static char stdoutmem[sizeof(LogStdoutOutput)];
      static char stderrmem[sizeof(LogStderrOutput)];

      LogStdoutOutput &StdoutLog = reinterpret_cast<LogStdoutOutput&>(stdoutmem);
      LogStderrOutput &StderrLog = reinterpret_cast<LogStderrOutput&>(stderrmem);

      LogFileStreamInitializer::LogFileStreamInitializer() {
        if (!initialized) {
          ::new (&StdoutLog) LogStdoutOutput();
          ::new (&StderrLog) LogStderrOutput();
          initialized = true;
        }
      }

      Unfortunately it is not guaranteed, that the static memory (which is a char array) is well-aligned for the stream objects. Actually, the C++ standard only defines that it has to be at least 'char' aligned which is obviously not enough for a stream object.
      When building 'slowdebug' on Solaris with SS12u4 we indeed observed reproducible crashes during VM initialization because of this issue.

      The fix is easy - just wrap the character arrays into unions to align them appropriately:

      static union {
        char stdoutmem[sizeof(LogStdoutOutput)];
        void* dummy;
      } aligned_stdoutmem;
      static union {
        char stderrmem[sizeof(LogStderrOutput)];
        void* dummy;
      } aligned_stderrmem;

      LogStdoutOutput &StdoutLog = reinterpret_cast<LogStdoutOutput&>(aligned_stdoutmem.stdoutmem);
      LogStderrOutput &StderrLog = reinterpret_cast<LogStderrOutput&>(aligned_stderrmem.stderrmem);

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              simonis Volker Simonis
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