Description of problem:

Using maven on a power7 machine fails with multiple stack overflows


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Apache Maven 3.0.5 (rNON-CANONICAL_2013-03-12_12-47_mockbuild; 2013-03-12 13:47:10+0100)
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.7.0_45, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.60-2.4.3.0.fc19.ppc64/jre
Default locale: de_DE, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.11.7-200.fc19.ppc64p7", arch: "ppc64", family: "unix"

How reproducible:

Execute "mvn archetype:generate"

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
java.lang.StackOverflowError
        at java.util.concurrent.SynchronousQueue$TransferStack.snode(SynchronousQueue.java:318)
        at java.util.concurrent.SynchronousQueue$TransferStack.transfer(SynchronousQueue.java:361)
        at java.util.concurrent.SynchronousQueue.poll(SynchronousQueue.java:941)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.getTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1066)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1127)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)

Expected results:

maven stub should be build

Additional info:
I tried to increase the java stacksize via setting the environment var MAVEN_OPTS, but it still gives me stack overflows

Seems similiar to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059816