--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp	Thu Jan 14 16:03:03 2016 +0100
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp	Fri Jan 15 06:27:35 2016 -0800
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1997, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1997, 2016, 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
@@ -2334,6 +2334,14 @@
   diagnostic(bool, VerifyDuringGC, false,                                   \
           "Verify memory system during GC (between phases)")                \
                                                                             \
+  diagnostic(ccstrlist, VerifySubSet, "",                                   \
+          "Memory sub-systems to verify when Verify*GC flag(s) "            \
+          "are enabled. One or more sub-systems can be specified "          \
+          "in a comma separated string. Sub-systems are: "                  \
+          "threads, heap, symbol_table, string_table, codecache, "          \
+          "dictionary, classloader_data_graph, metaspace, jni_handles, "    \
+          "c-heap, codecache_oops")                                         \
+                                                                            \
   diagnostic(bool, GCParallelVerificationEnabled, true,                     \
           "Enable parallel memory system verification")                     \
                                                                             \