As discussed before, this patch is to revert JDK-8246051(SIGBUS by unaligned Unsafe compare_and_swap). Please review. JDK bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8252835 Patch: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~wzhuo/8252835/webrev.00/ Regards, Zhuoren