diff -r 196cfce9e5aa -r 57aa8995d43b hotspot/src/share/vm/memory/universe.cpp
--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/memory/universe.cpp	Thu Feb 13 17:57:27 2014 +0100
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/memory/universe.cpp	Wed Feb 19 12:08:49 2014 -0800
@@ -759,7 +759,7 @@
       // the correct no-access prefix.
       // The final value will be set in initialize_heap() below.
       Universe::set_narrow_oop_base((address)UnscaledOopHeapMax);
-#ifdef _WIN64
+#if defined(_WIN64) || defined(AIX)
       if (UseLargePages) {
         // Cannot allocate guard pages for implicit checks in indexed
         // addressing mode when large pages are specified on windows.
@@ -841,6 +841,11 @@
       // Can't reserve heap below 32Gb.
       // keep the Universe::narrow_oop_base() set in Universe::reserve_heap()
       Universe::set_narrow_oop_shift(LogMinObjAlignmentInBytes);
+#ifdef AIX
+      // There is no protected page before the heap. This assures all oops
+      // are decoded so that NULL is preserved, so this page will not be accessed.
+      Universe::set_narrow_oop_use_implicit_null_checks(false);
+#endif
       if (verbose) {
         tty->print(", %s: "PTR_FORMAT,
             narrow_oop_mode_to_string(HeapBasedNarrowOop),