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/prims/jni.cpp	Sun Aug 25 21:21:18 2013 -0400
+++ b/src/share/vm/prims/jni.cpp	Fri Aug 16 13:22:32 2013 +0200
@@ -5027,9 +5027,15 @@
   tty->print_cr("Running test: " #unit_test_function_call); \
   unit_test_function_call
 
+// Forward declaration
+void TestReservedSpace_test();
+void TestReserveMemorySpecial_test();
+
 void execute_internal_vm_tests() {
   if (ExecuteInternalVMTests) {
     tty->print_cr("Running internal VM tests");
+    run_unit_test(TestReservedSpace_test());
+    run_unit_test(TestReserveMemorySpecial_test());
     run_unit_test(GlobalDefinitions::test_globals());
     run_unit_test(GCTimerAllTest::all());
     run_unit_test(arrayOopDesc::test_max_array_length());