--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims/jni.cpp	Mon Jul 14 10:50:20 2014 +0200
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims/jni.cpp	Mon Jul 14 10:52:52 2014 +0200
@@ -247,15 +247,6 @@
       "Bug in native code: jfieldID offset must address interior of object");
 }
 
-// Pick a reasonable higher bound for local capacity requested
-// for EnsureLocalCapacity and PushLocalFrame.  We don't want it too
-// high because a test (or very unusual application) may try to allocate
-// that many handles and run out of swap space.  An implementation is
-// permitted to allocate more handles than the ensured capacity, so this
-// value is set high enough to prevent compatibility problems.
-const int MAX_REASONABLE_LOCAL_CAPACITY = 4*K;
-
-
 // Wrapper to trace JNI functions
 
 #ifdef ASSERT
@@ -741,7 +732,8 @@
   HOTSPOT_JNI_PUSHLOCALFRAME_ENTRY(env, capacity);
 
   //%note jni_11
-  if (capacity < 0 || capacity > MAX_REASONABLE_LOCAL_CAPACITY) {
+  if (capacity < 0 ||
+      ((MaxJNILocalCapacity > 0) && (capacity > MaxJNILocalCapacity))) {
     HOTSPOT_JNI_PUSHLOCALFRAME_RETURN((uint32_t)JNI_ERR);
     return JNI_ERR;
   }
@@ -844,7 +836,8 @@
   HOTSPOT_JNI_ENSURELOCALCAPACITY_ENTRY(env, capacity);
 
   jint ret;
-  if (capacity >= 0 && capacity <= MAX_REASONABLE_LOCAL_CAPACITY) {
+  if (capacity >= 0 &&
+      ((MaxJNILocalCapacity <= 0) || (capacity <= MaxJNILocalCapacity))) {
     ret = JNI_OK;
   } else {
     ret = JNI_ERR;

--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp	Mon Jul 14 10:50:20 2014 +0200
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp	Mon Jul 14 10:52:52 2014 +0200
@@ -1216,6 +1216,11 @@
   product(bool, UseFastJNIAccessors, true,                                  \
           "Use optimized versions of Get<Primitive>Field")                  \
                                                                             \
+  product(intx, MaxJNILocalCapacity, 65536,                                 \
+          "Maximum allowable local JNI handle capacity to "                 \
+          "EnsureLocalCapacity() and PushLocalFrame(), "                    \
+          "where <= 0 is unlimited, default: 65536")                        \
+                                                                            \
   product(bool, EagerXrunInit, false,                                       \
           "Eagerly initialize -Xrun libraries; allows startup profiling, "  \
           "but not all -Xrun libraries may support the state of the VM "    \