8u backport request. 8048170 was pushed to jdk9 last week and it hasn’t caused any new failures during nightly testing. The change applies cleanly to 8u. https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8048170 http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs-comp/hotspot/rev/e78fa38ad3a3 Roland.