Backport to 7u request. Changes were pushed to jdk9 2 weeks ago and to 8u a bit less than 2 weeks ago. Nightly testing is fine. Changes apply cleanly to 7u sources but the test case cannot be run and I had to remove its use of the whitebox API.
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8066103 http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~roland/8066103/webrev.7u/ Review thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2014-December/016405.html jdk9 changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs-comp/hotspot/rev/287f46592168 jdk8u changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/hs-dev/hotspot/rev/e3d0aaab84aa Thanks, Roland.
