[SPARK-16962] Unsafe accesses (Platform.getLong()) not supported on unaligned boundaries in SPARC/Solaris

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0
• Component/s: Spark Core, SQL

Environment

SPARC/Solaris

• Target Version/s: 2.1.0
• Assignee: Suman Somasundar
• Reporter: Suman Somasundar
• Created: 09/Aug/16 01:36
• Updated: 12/Apr/20 14:43
• Resolved: 04/Oct/16 09:32

Description

Unaligned accesses are not supported on SPARC architecture. Because of this, Spark applications fail by dumping core on SPARC machines whenever unaligned accesses happen.

Issue Links

• relates to: SPARK-31425 UnsafeKVExternalSorter/VariableLengthRowBasedKeyValueBatch should also respect UnsafeAlignedOffset
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #14762 (sumansomasundar)