--- old/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp	2013-10-17 20:38:42.541729363 +0200
+++ new/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp	2013-10-17 20:38:42.307223478 +0200
@@ -2678,13 +2678,18 @@
           "Enable aggressive optimizations - see arguments.cpp")            \
                                                                             \
   product_pd(uintx, TypeProfileLevel,                                       \
-          "=XY, with Y, Type profiling of arguments at call"                \
-          "          X, Type profiling of return value at call"             \
-          "X and Y in 0->off ; 1->js292 only; 2->all methods")              \
+          "=XYZ, with Z, Type profiling of arguments at call"               \
+          "           Y, Type profiling of return value at call"            \
+          "           X, Type profiling of parameters to methods"           \
+          "X, Y and Z in 0->off ; 1->js292 only; 2->all methods")           \
                                                                             \
   product(intx, TypeProfileArgsLimit,     2,                                \
           "max number of call arguments to consider for type profiling")    \
                                                                             \
+  product(intx, TypeProfileParmsLimit,    2,                                \
+          "max number of incoming parameters to consider for type profiling"\
+          "-1 for all")                                                     \
+                                                                            \
   /* statistics */                                                          \
   develop(bool, CountCompiledCalls, false,                                  \
           "Count method invocations")                                       \