--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims/whitebox.cpp	Tue Jun 16 11:58:25 2015 +0200
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims/whitebox.cpp	Wed Jun 17 21:44:48 2015 +0000
@@ -1213,6 +1213,10 @@
   return MetaspaceShared::is_in_shared_space((void*)obj_oop);
 WB_END
 
+WB_ENTRY(jboolean, WB_AreSharedStringsIgnored(JNIEnv* env))
+  return StringTable::shared_string_ignored();
+WB_END
+
 //Some convenience methods to deal with objects from java
 int WhiteBox::offset_for_field(const char* field_name, oop object,
     Symbol* signature_symbol) {
@@ -1438,6 +1442,7 @@
       CC"(Ljava/lang/reflect/Executable;Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;",
                                                       (void*)&WB_GetMethodStringOption},
   {CC"isShared",           CC"(Ljava/lang/Object;)Z", (void*)&WB_IsShared },
+  {CC"areSharedStringsIgnored",           CC"()Z",    (void*)&WB_AreSharedStringsIgnored },
 };
 
 #undef CC