--- a/jdk/test/java/util/concurrent/tck/ForkJoinPool9Test.java	Tue Mar 14 08:35:52 2017 -0400
+++ b/jdk/test/java/util/concurrent/tck/ForkJoinPool9Test.java	Tue Mar 14 07:04:50 2017 -0700
@@ -32,9 +32,14 @@
  * http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
  */
 
+import static java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS;
+
 import java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles;
 import java.lang.invoke.VarHandle;
-import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
+import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
+import java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool;
+import java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask;
+import java.util.concurrent.Future;
 
 import junit.framework.Test;
 import junit.framework.TestSuite;
@@ -53,29 +58,43 @@
      */
     public void testCommonPoolThreadContextClassLoader() throws Throwable {
         if (!testImplementationDetails) return;
+
+        // Ensure common pool has at least one real thread
+        String prop = System.getProperty(
+            "java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool.common.parallelism");
+        if ("0".equals(prop)) return;
+
         VarHandle CCL =
             MethodHandles.privateLookupIn(Thread.class, MethodHandles.lookup())
             .findVarHandle(Thread.class, "contextClassLoader", ClassLoader.class);
         ClassLoader systemClassLoader = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader();
         boolean haveSecurityManager = (System.getSecurityManager() != null);
-        CompletableFuture.runAsync(
-            () -> {
-                assertSame(systemClassLoader,
-                           Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
-                assertSame(systemClassLoader,
-                           CCL.get(Thread.currentThread()));
-                if (haveSecurityManager)
-                    assertThrows(
-                        SecurityException.class,
-                        () -> System.getProperty("foo"),
-                        () -> Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(null));
-
-                // TODO ?
-//                 if (haveSecurityManager
-//                     && Thread.currentThread().getClass().getSimpleName()
-//                     .equals("InnocuousForkJoinWorkerThread"))
-//                     assertThrows(SecurityException.class, /* ?? */);
-            }).join();
+        CountDownLatch taskStarted = new CountDownLatch(1);
+        Runnable runInCommonPool = () -> {
+            taskStarted.countDown();
+            assertTrue(ForkJoinTask.inForkJoinPool());
+            assertSame(ForkJoinPool.commonPool(),
+                       ForkJoinTask.getPool());
+            assertSame(systemClassLoader,
+                       Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
+            assertSame(systemClassLoader,
+                       CCL.get(Thread.currentThread()));
+            if (haveSecurityManager)
+                assertThrows(
+                    SecurityException.class,
+                    () -> System.getProperty("foo"),
+                    () -> Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(null));
+            // TODO ?
+//          if (haveSecurityManager
+//              && Thread.currentThread().getClass().getSimpleName()
+//                 .equals("InnocuousForkJoinWorkerThread"))
+//              assertThrows(SecurityException.class, /* ?? */);
+        };
+        Future<?> f = ForkJoinPool.commonPool().submit(runInCommonPool);
+        // Ensure runInCommonPool is truly running in the common pool,
+        // by giving this thread no opportunity to "help" on get().
+        assertTrue(taskStarted.await(LONG_DELAY_MS, MILLISECONDS));
+        assertNull(f.get());
     }
 
 }