--- old/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/parallelScavenge/vmPSOperations.cpp	2011-01-27 10:33:16.781250000 +0100
+++ new/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/parallelScavenge/vmPSOperations.cpp	2011-01-27 10:33:16.078125000 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, 2011, 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
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
   _is_tlab(is_tlab),
   _result(NULL)
 {
+  _gc_cause = GCCause::_allocation_failure;
 }
 
 void VM_ParallelGCFailedAllocation::doit() {
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@
   _size(size),
   _result(NULL)
 {
+  _gc_cause = GCCause::_allocation_failure;
 }
 
 void VM_ParallelGCFailedPermanentAllocation::doit() {