--- a/hotspot/src/cpu/arm/vm/macroAssembler_arm.cpp	Wed Aug 23 15:47:41 2017 +0200
+++ b/hotspot/src/cpu/arm/vm/macroAssembler_arm.cpp	Wed Aug 23 12:00:39 2017 -0400
@@ -2887,6 +2887,11 @@
   return offset();
 }
 
+// ((OopHandle)result).resolve();
+void MacroAssembler::resolve_oop_handle(Register result) {
+  // OopHandle::resolve is an indirection.
+  ldr(result, Address(result, 0));
+}
 
 void MacroAssembler::load_mirror(Register mirror, Register method, Register tmp) {
   const int mirror_offset = in_bytes(Klass::java_mirror_offset());
@@ -2896,6 +2901,7 @@
   ldr(mirror, Address(tmp, mirror_offset));
 }
 
+
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 // Compressed pointers