8u20 backport request. The change was pushed to jdk9 almost 3 weeks ago and nightly testing hasn’t shown any problem. The change applies cleanly to 8u. http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs/hotspot/rev/a35e424a76a4 https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8041481 Roland.