--- a/src/share/vm/memory/allocation.hpp	Wed Apr 17 10:12:42 2013 -0700
+++ b/src/share/vm/memory/allocation.hpp	Thu Mar 07 11:49:38 2013 -0500
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1997, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1997, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@
   Chunk*       _next;     // Next Chunk in list
   const size_t _len;      // Size of this Chunk
  public:
-  void* operator new(size_t size, size_t length);
+  void* operator new(size_t size, AllocFailType alloc_failmode, size_t length);
   void  operator delete(void* p);
   Chunk(size_t length);
 
@@ -337,10 +337,15 @@
 
   void signal_out_of_memory(size_t request, const char* whence) const;
 
-  void check_for_overflow(size_t request, const char* whence) const {
+  bool check_for_overflow(size_t request, const char* whence,
+      AllocFailType alloc_failmode = AllocFailStrategy::EXIT_OOM) const {
     if (UINTPTR_MAX - request < (uintptr_t)_hwm) {
+      if (alloc_failmode == AllocFailStrategy::RETURN_NULL) {
+        return false;
+      }
       signal_out_of_memory(request, whence);
     }
+    return true;
  }
 
  public:
@@ -364,7 +369,8 @@
     assert(is_power_of_2(ARENA_AMALLOC_ALIGNMENT) , "should be a power of 2");
     x = ARENA_ALIGN(x);
     debug_only(if (UseMallocOnly) return malloc(x);)
-    check_for_overflow(x, "Arena::Amalloc");
+    if (!check_for_overflow(x, "Arena::Amalloc", alloc_failmode))
+      return NULL;
     NOT_PRODUCT(inc_bytes_allocated(x);)
     if (_hwm + x > _max) {
       return grow(x, alloc_failmode);
@@ -378,7 +384,8 @@
   void *Amalloc_4(size_t x, AllocFailType alloc_failmode = AllocFailStrategy::EXIT_OOM) {
     assert( (x&(sizeof(char*)-1)) == 0, "misaligned size" );
     debug_only(if (UseMallocOnly) return malloc(x);)
-    check_for_overflow(x, "Arena::Amalloc_4");
+    if (!check_for_overflow(x, "Arena::Amalloc_4", alloc_failmode))
+      return NULL;
     NOT_PRODUCT(inc_bytes_allocated(x);)
     if (_hwm + x > _max) {
       return grow(x, alloc_failmode);
@@ -399,7 +406,8 @@
     size_t delta = (((size_t)_hwm + DALIGN_M1) & ~DALIGN_M1) - (size_t)_hwm;
     x += delta;
 #endif
-    check_for_overflow(x, "Arena::Amalloc_D");
+    if (!check_for_overflow(x, "Arena::Amalloc_D", alloc_failmode))
+      return NULL;
     NOT_PRODUCT(inc_bytes_allocated(x);)
     if (_hwm + x > _max) {
       return grow(x, alloc_failmode); // grow() returns a result aligned >= 8 bytes.
@@ -539,6 +547,9 @@
 #define NEW_RESOURCE_ARRAY(type, size)\
   (type*) resource_allocate_bytes((size) * sizeof(type))
 
+#define NEW_RESOURCE_ARRAY_RETURN_NULL(type, size)\
+  (type*) resource_allocate_bytes((size) * sizeof(type), AllocFailStrategy::RETURN_NULL)
+
 #define NEW_RESOURCE_ARRAY_IN_THREAD(thread, type, size)\
   (type*) resource_allocate_bytes(thread, (size) * sizeof(type))