--- old/share/gc/parallel/adjoiningVirtualSpaces.cpp	2018-06-15 09:47:38.058912444 -0700
+++ new/share/gc/parallel/adjoiningVirtualSpaces.cpp	2018-06-15 09:47:38.034912443 -0700
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2003, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2003, 2018, 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
@@ -46,9 +46,16 @@
   ReservedSpace young_rs = _reserved_space.last_part(max_low_byte_size);
 
   _low = new PSVirtualSpace(old_rs, alignment());
-  if (!_low->expand_by(init_low_byte_size)) {
-    vm_exit_during_initialization("Could not reserve enough space for "
-                                  "object heap");
+  if (os::has_nvdimm() && UseParallelOldGC) {
+    if (!_low->expand_by(init_low_byte_size, _nvdimm_fd)) {
+      vm_exit_during_initialization("Could not reserve enough space for "
+                                    "object heap");
+    }
+  } else {
+    if (!_low->expand_by(init_low_byte_size)) {
+      vm_exit_during_initialization("Could not reserve enough space for "
+                                    "object heap");
+    }
   }
 
   _high = new PSVirtualSpaceHighToLow(young_rs, alignment());
@@ -60,7 +67,12 @@
 
 bool AdjoiningVirtualSpaces::adjust_boundary_up(size_t change_in_bytes) {
   assert(UseAdaptiveSizePolicy && UseAdaptiveGCBoundary, "runtime check");
-  size_t actual_change = low()->expand_into(high(), change_in_bytes);
+  size_t actual_change = 0;
+  if (os::has_nvdimm() && UseParallelOldGC) {
+    actual_change = low()->expand_into(high(), change_in_bytes, nvdimm_fd());
+  } else {
+    actual_change = low()->expand_into(high(), change_in_bytes);
+  }
   return actual_change != 0;
 }