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/os/linux/vm/globals_linux.hpp	Sun Aug 25 21:21:18 2013 -0400
+++ b/src/os/linux/vm/globals_linux.hpp	Fri Aug 16 13:22:32 2013 +0200
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
   product(bool, UseHugeTLBFS, false,                                    \
           "Use MAP_HUGETLB for large pages")                            \
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+  product(bool, UseTransparentHugePages, false,                         \
+          "Use MADV_HUGEPAGE for large pages")                          \
+                                                                        \
   product(bool, LoadExecStackDllInVMThread, true,                       \
           "Load DLLs with executable-stack attribute in the VM Thread") \
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