From: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6541756 "Description A customer pointed out a concern that our VM was mapping our C-heap allocation as all read-write-execute. We do require "executable" access for our CodeCache, but should not require it for the rest of the C-heap. Posted Date : 2007-04-02 21:02:10.0 Work Around N/A Evaluation Fix in progress. Set execute bit on only the code cache. Posted Date : 2009-03-23 18:04:11.0 http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot-rt/hotspot/rev/6bdd6923ba16 Posted Date : 2009-03-26 14:20:57.0" The request is to backport this patch to be usable in RHEL5/6 OpenJDK as defense-in-depth measure.