--- a/src/share/vm/opto/runtime.cpp	Wed Nov 09 00:42:33 2011 -0800
+++ b/src/share/vm/opto/runtime.cpp	Wed Nov 09 06:14:32 2011 -0800
@@ -338,6 +338,24 @@
     // inform GC that we won't do card marks for initializing writes.
     new_store_pre_barrier(thread);
   }
+
+  oop result = thread->vm_result();
+  if ((len > 0) && (result != NULL) &&
+      is_deoptimized_caller_frame(thread)) {
+    // Zero array here if the caller is deoptimized.
+    int size = ((typeArrayOop)result)->object_size();
+    BasicType elem_type = typeArrayKlass::cast(array_type)->element_type();
+    const size_t hs = arrayOopDesc::header_size(elem_type);
+    // Align to next 8 bytes to avoid trashing arrays's length.
+    const size_t aligned_hs = align_object_offset(hs);
+    HeapWord* obj = (HeapWord*)result;
+    if (aligned_hs > hs) {
+      Copy::zero_to_words(obj+hs, aligned_hs-hs);
+    }
+    // Optimized zeroing.
+    Copy::fill_to_aligned_words(obj+aligned_hs, size-aligned_hs);
+  }
+
 JRT_END
 
 // Note: multianewarray for one dimension is handled inline by GraphKit::new_array.
@@ -1136,6 +1154,16 @@
 }
 
 
+bool OptoRuntime::is_deoptimized_caller_frame(JavaThread *thread) {
+  // Called from within the owner thread, so no need for safepoint
+  RegisterMap reg_map(thread);
+  frame stub_frame = thread->last_frame();
+  assert(stub_frame.is_runtime_frame() || exception_blob()->contains(stub_frame.pc()), "sanity check");
+  frame caller_frame = stub_frame.sender(&reg_map);
+  return caller_frame.is_deoptimized_frame();
+}
+
+
 const TypeFunc *OptoRuntime::register_finalizer_Type() {
   // create input type (domain)
   const Type **fields = TypeTuple::fields(1);

--- a/src/share/vm/opto/runtime.hpp	Wed Nov 09 00:42:33 2011 -0800
+++ b/src/share/vm/opto/runtime.hpp	Wed Nov 09 06:14:32 2011 -0800
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@
   static address handle_exception_C_helper(JavaThread* thread, nmethod*& nm);
   static address rethrow_C                (oopDesc* exception, JavaThread *thread, address return_pc );
   static void deoptimize_caller_frame     (JavaThread *thread, bool doit);
+  static bool is_deoptimized_caller_frame (JavaThread *thread);
 
   // CodeBlob support
   // ===================================================================