The HotSpotJVMCIRuntime.translate method copies objects between the HotSpot heap and the libjvmci heap. Failure during copying (e.g. due to an OutOfMemoryError) currently results in a VM exit as shown below:

 testHostOOMResourceLimit: Uncaught exception exiting JVMCIEnv scope entered at open/src/hotspot/share/jvmci/jvmciCompilerToVM.cpp:2467
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at jdk.vm.ci.hotspot.CompilerToVM.getResolvedJavaType0(jdk.internal.vm.ci@17.0.2/Native Method)
at jdk.vm.ci.hotspot.CompilerToVM.getResolvedJavaType(jdk.internal.vm.ci@17.0.2/CompilerToVM.java:675)
at jdk.vm.ci.hotspot.HotSpotResolvedJavaMethodImpl.getHolder(jdk.internal.vm.ci@17.0.2/HotSpotResolvedJavaMethodImpl.java:97)
at jdk.vm.ci.hotspot.HotSpotResolvedJavaMethodImpl.fromMetaspace(jdk.internal.vm.ci@17.0.2/HotSpotResolvedJavaMethodImpl.java:115)
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# Internal Error (jvmciRuntime.cpp:1587), pid=7044, tid=7057
# fatal error: Fatal exception in JVMCI: Uncaught exception exiting JVMCIEnv scope entered at open/src/hotspot/share/jvmci/jvmciCompilerToVM.cpp:2467
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment GraalVM LIBGRAAL_EE 22.0.0-dev (17.0.2+5) (build 17.0.2+5-LTS-jvmci-22.0-b02)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM GraalVM LIBGRAAL_EE 22.0.0-dev (17.0.2+5-LTS-jvmci-22.0-b02, mixed mode, sharing, tiered, jvmci, jvmci compiler, compressed oops, compressed class ptrs, g1 gc, linux-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# V [libjvm.so+0x98dc64] JVMCIRuntime::fatal_exception(JVMCIEnv*, char const*)+0x74
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# No core dump will be written. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /b/b/e/main/vm-enterprise/hs_err_pid7044.log
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# https://bugreport.java.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
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Instead, the exception should be propagated back into the runtime from which HotSpotJVMCIRuntime.translate was called.