--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/ci/ciObjectFactory.cpp	Wed Jun 27 15:23:36 2012 +0200
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/ci/ciObjectFactory.cpp	Thu Jun 28 17:03:16 2012 -0400
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
   // This Arena is long lived and exists in the resource mark of the
   // compiler thread that initializes the initial ciObjectFactory which
   // creates the shared ciObjects that all later ciObjectFactories use.
-  Arena* arena = new Arena();
+  Arena* arena = new (mtCompiler) Arena();
   ciEnv initial(arena);
   ciEnv* env = ciEnv::current();
   env->_factory->init_shared_objects();