8007074: SIGSEGV at ParMarkBitMap::verify_clear() Summary: Replace the broken large pages implementation on Linux. New flag: -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages - Linux specific flag to turn on transparent huge page hinting with madvise(..., MAP_HUGETLB). Changed behavior: -XX:+UseLargePages - tries to use -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages before trying other large pages implementations (on Linux). Changed behavior: -XX:+UseHugeTLBFS - Use upfront allocation of Large Pages instead of using the broken implementation to dynamically committing large pages. Changed behavior: -XX:LargePageSizeInBytes - Turned off the ability to use this flag on Linux and provides warning to user if set to a value different than the OS chosen large page size. Changed behavior: Setting no large page size - Now defaults to use -XX:UseTransparentHugePages if the OS supports it. Previously, -XX:+UseHugeTLBFS was chosen if the OS was configured to use large pages. Reviewed-by: tschatzl, dcubed, brutisso

--- a/src/share/vm/runtime/virtualspace.hpp	Sun Aug 25 21:21:18 2013 -0400
+++ b/src/share/vm/runtime/virtualspace.hpp	Fri Aug 16 13:22:32 2013 +0200
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
 
  public:
   // Constructor
+  ReservedSpace();
   ReservedSpace(size_t size);
   ReservedSpace(size_t size, size_t alignment, bool large,
                 char* requested_address = NULL,