--- a/src/hotspot/share/gc/g1/g1_globals.hpp	Mon Nov 06 09:44:42 2017 +0100
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/gc/g1/g1_globals.hpp	Mon Nov 06 09:41:54 2017 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2001, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2001, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -74,10 +74,10 @@
           "in milliseconds.")                                               \
           range(1.0, DBL_MAX)                                               \
                                                                             \
-  product(intx, G1RefProcDrainInterval, 10,                                 \
+  product(int, G1RefProcDrainInterval, 10,                                  \
           "The number of discovered reference objects to process before "   \
           "draining concurrent marking work queues.")                       \
-          range(1, max_intx)                                                \
+          range(1, INT_MAX)                                                 \
                                                                             \
   experimental(double, G1LastPLABAverageOccupancy, 50.0,                    \
                "The expected average occupancy of the last PLAB in "        \

--- a/test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/CommandLine/OptionsValidation/common/optionsvalidation/JVMOptionsUtils.java	Mon Nov 06 09:44:42 2017 +0100
+++ b/test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/CommandLine/OptionsValidation/common/optionsvalidation/JVMOptionsUtils.java	Mon Nov 06 09:41:54 2017 +0100
@@ -216,6 +216,9 @@
             case "CMSPrecleanDenominator":
                 option.addPrepend("-XX:CMSPrecleanNumerator=" + ((new Integer(option.getMin())) - 1));
                 break;
+            case "G1RefProcDrainInterval":
+                option.addPrepend("-XX:+ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent");
+                break;
             case "InitialTenuringThreshold":
                 option.addPrepend("-XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=" + option.getMax());
                 break;