diff -r a474466c4fdb -r cd4705f9eaff src/hotspot/share/runtime/globals.hpp
--- a/src/hotspot/share/runtime/globals.hpp	Sun Nov 19 23:30:41 2017 -0500
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/runtime/globals.hpp	Mon Nov 20 09:33:16 2017 +0100
@@ -3283,7 +3283,7 @@
           "before changing safepoint polling page to RO ")                  \
           range(-1, max_jint-1)                                             \
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-  product(intx, SafepointSpinBeforeYield, 2000, "(Unstable)")               \
+  product(intx, SafepointSpinBeforeYield, 2000, "(Unstable, Deprecated)")   \
           range(0, max_intx)                                                \
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   product(bool, PSChunkLargeArrays, true,                                   \