--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/ci/ciObject.cpp	Wed Apr 27 15:40:36 2011 -0700
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/ci/ciObject.cpp	Thu Apr 28 14:00:13 2011 -0700
@@ -194,6 +194,16 @@
 // ciObject::should_be_constant()
 bool ciObject::should_be_constant() {
   if (ScavengeRootsInCode >= 2)  return true;  // force everybody to be a constant
+  if (!JavaObjectsInPerm && !is_null_object()) {
+    // We want Strings and Classes to be embeddable by default since
+    // they used to be in the perm world.  Not all Strings used to be
+    // embeddable but there's no easy way to distinguish the interned
+    // from the regulars ones so just treat them all that way.
+    ciEnv* env = CURRENT_ENV;
+    if (klass() == env->String_klass() || klass() == env->Class_klass()) {
+      return true;
+    }
+  }
   return handle() == NULL || !is_scavengable();
 }
 

--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/opto/stringopts.cpp	Wed Apr 27 15:40:36 2011 -0700
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/opto/stringopts.cpp	Thu Apr 28 14:00:13 2011 -0700
@@ -1172,16 +1172,16 @@
 
 Node* PhaseStringOpts::copy_string(GraphKit& kit, Node* str, Node* char_array, Node* start) {
   Node* string = str;
-  Node* offset = kit.make_load(NULL,
+  Node* offset = kit.make_load(kit.control(),
                                kit.basic_plus_adr(string, string, java_lang_String::offset_offset_in_bytes()),
                                TypeInt::INT, T_INT, offset_field_idx);
-  Node* count = kit.make_load(NULL,
+  Node* count = kit.make_load(kit.control(),
                               kit.basic_plus_adr(string, string, java_lang_String::count_offset_in_bytes()),
                               TypeInt::INT, T_INT, count_field_idx);
   const TypeAryPtr*  value_type = TypeAryPtr::make(TypePtr::NotNull,
                                                    TypeAry::make(TypeInt::CHAR,TypeInt::POS),
                                                    ciTypeArrayKlass::make(T_CHAR), true, 0);
-  Node* value = kit.make_load(NULL,
+  Node* value = kit.make_load(kit.control(),
                               kit.basic_plus_adr(string, string, java_lang_String::value_offset_in_bytes()),
                               value_type, T_OBJECT, value_field_idx);
 
@@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@
         }
         //         Node* offset = kit.make_load(NULL, kit.basic_plus_adr(arg, arg, offset_offset),
         //                                      TypeInt::INT, T_INT, offset_field_idx);
-        Node* count = kit.make_load(NULL, kit.basic_plus_adr(arg, arg, java_lang_String::count_offset_in_bytes()),
+        Node* count = kit.make_load(kit.control(), kit.basic_plus_adr(arg, arg, java_lang_String::count_offset_in_bytes()),
                                     TypeInt::INT, T_INT, count_field_idx);
         length = __ AddI(length, count);
         string_sizes->init_req(argi, NULL);