--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims/jni.cpp	Fri Feb 26 16:40:55 2010 -0500
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims/jni.cpp	Tue Mar 02 12:09:40 2010 -0800
@@ -3401,12 +3401,16 @@
   thread->set_thread_state(_thread_in_vm);
   // Must do this before initialize_thread_local_storage
   thread->record_stack_base_and_size();
+
   thread->initialize_thread_local_storage();
 
   if (!os::create_attached_thread(thread)) {
     delete thread;
     return JNI_ERR;
   }
+  // Enable stack overflow checks
+  thread->create_stack_guard_pages();
+
   thread->initialize_tlab();
 
   // Crucial that we do not have a safepoint check for this thread, since it has
@@ -3452,9 +3456,6 @@
   // to regrab the threads_lock
   thread->set_attached();
 
-  // Enable stack overflow checks
-  thread->create_stack_guard_pages();
-
   // Set java thread status.
   java_lang_Thread::set_thread_status(thread->threadObj(),
               java_lang_Thread::RUNNABLE);