--- old/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/g1/heapRegionManager.cpp	2014-08-28 11:44:20.799720515 +0200
+++ new/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/g1/heapRegionManager.cpp	2014-08-28 11:44:20.733718575 +0200
@@ -351,10 +351,6 @@
 
   while ((removed < num_regions_to_remove) &&
       (num_last_found = find_empty_from_idx_reverse(cur, &idx_last_found)) > 0) {
-    // Only allow uncommit from the end of the heap.
-    if ((idx_last_found + num_last_found) != _allocated_heapregions_length) {
-      return 0;
-    }
     uint to_remove = MIN2(num_regions_to_remove - removed, num_last_found);
 
     uncommit_regions(idx_last_found + num_last_found - to_remove, to_remove);
--- old/test/gc/g1/TestHumongousShrinkHeap.java	2014-08-28 11:44:21.162731185 +0200
+++ new/test/gc/g1/TestHumongousShrinkHeap.java	2014-08-28 11:44:21.096729245 +0200
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 /**
  * @test TestHumongousShrinkHeap
- * @bug 8036025
+ * @bug 8036025 8056043
  * @summary Verify that heap shrinks after GC in the presence of fragmentation due to humongous objects
  * @library /testlibrary
  * @run main/othervm -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=10 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=50 -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=1M -verbose:gc TestHumongousShrinkHeap