I would like to cherry pick this patch to shenandoah/jdk. It is needed for x86_32 nmethod barrier work. http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zgu/shenandoah/JDK-8230401_CLD-keep_alive/webrev.00/ Test: hotspot_gc_shenandoah x86_64 (fastdebug and release) Thanks, -Zhengyu