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/os.hpp	Sun Aug 25 21:21:18 2013 -0400
+++ b/src/share/vm/runtime/os.hpp	Fri Aug 16 13:22:32 2013 +0200
@@ -328,8 +328,8 @@
 
   static char*  non_memory_address_word();
   // reserve, commit and pin the entire memory region
-  static char*  reserve_memory_special(size_t size, char* addr = NULL,
-                bool executable = false);
+  static char*  reserve_memory_special(size_t size, size_t alignment,
+                                       char* addr, bool executable);
   static bool   release_memory_special(char* addr, size_t bytes);
   static void   large_page_init();
   static size_t large_page_size();