--- old/src/share/vm/utilities/nativeCallStack.cpp	2016-07-31 23:33:19.975301387 -0700
+++ new/src/share/vm/utilities/nativeCallStack.cpp	2016-07-31 23:33:19.912301202 -0700
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2014, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2014, 2016, 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
@@ -33,6 +33,19 @@
   _hash_value(0) {
 
   if (fillStack) {
+    // We need to skip the NativeCallStack::NativeCallStack frame if a tail call is NOT used
+    // to call os::get_native_stack. A tail call is used if _NMT_NOINLINE_ is not defined
+    // (which means this is not a slowdebug build), and we are on 64-bit (except Windows).
+    // This is not necessarily a rule, but what has been obvserved to date.
+#define TAIL_CALL (!defined(_NMT_NOINLINE_) && !defined(WINDOWS) && defined(_LP64))
+#if !TAIL_CALL
+    toSkip++;
+#if (defined(_NMT_NOINLINE_) && defined(BSD) && defined(_LP64))
+    // Mac OS X slowdebug builds have this odd behavior where NativeCallStack::NativeCallStack
+    // appears as two frames, so we need to skip an extra frame.
+    toSkip++;
+#endif
+#endif
     os::get_native_stack(_stack, NMT_TrackingStackDepth, toSkip);
   } else {
     for (int index = 0; index < NMT_TrackingStackDepth; index ++) {