--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/utilities/stack.inline.hpp	Tue Sep 01 14:01:18 2015 -0700
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/utilities/stack.inline.hpp	Wed Sep 02 09:14:04 2015 +0200
@@ -27,6 +27,17 @@
 
 #include "utilities/stack.hpp"
 
+// Stack is used by the GC code and in some hot paths a lot of the Stack
+// code gets inlined. This is generally good, but when too much code has
+// been inlined, no further inlining is allowed by GCC. Therefore we need
+// to prevent parts of the slow path in Stack to be inlined to allow other
+// code to be.
+#if defined(TARGET_COMPILER_gcc)
+#define NOINLINE __attribute__((noinline))
+#else
+#define NOINLINE
+#endif
+
 template <MEMFLAGS F> StackBase<F>::StackBase(size_t segment_size, size_t max_cache_size,
                      size_t max_size):
   _seg_size(segment_size),
@@ -141,7 +152,7 @@
 }
 
 template <class E, MEMFLAGS F>
-void Stack<E, F>::push_segment()
+NOINLINE void Stack<E, F>::push_segment()
 {
   assert(this->_cur_seg_size == this->_seg_size, "current segment is not full");
   E* next;
@@ -269,4 +280,6 @@
   return _cur_seg + --_cur_seg_size;
 }
 
+#undef NOINLINE
+
 #endif // SHARE_VM_UTILITIES_STACK_INLINE_HPP