--- old/agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/memory/SymbolTable.java	2015-01-29 18:58:02.787721555 -0500
+++ new/agent/src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/memory/SymbolTable.java	2015-01-29 18:58:02.147684941 -0500
@@ -44,15 +44,22 @@
   private static synchronized void initialize(TypeDataBase db) {
     Type type = db.lookupType("SymbolTable");
     theTableField  = type.getAddressField("_the_table");
+    sharedTableField = type.getAddressField("_shared_table");
   }
 
   // Fields
   private static AddressField theTableField;
+  private static AddressField sharedTableField;
+ 
+  private CompactHashTable sharedTable;
 
   // Accessors
   public static SymbolTable getTheTable() {
     Address tmp = theTableField.getValue();
-    return (SymbolTable) VMObjectFactory.newObject(SymbolTable.class, tmp);
+    SymbolTable table = (SymbolTable) VMObjectFactory.newObject(SymbolTable.class, tmp);
+    Address shared = sharedTableField.getStaticFieldAddress();
+    table.sharedTable = (CompactHashTable)VMObjectFactory.newObject(CompactHashTable.class, shared);
+    return table;
   }
 
   public SymbolTable(Address addr) {
@@ -76,16 +83,19 @@
       anyway. Returns null if the given string is not in the symbol
       table. */
   public Symbol probe(byte[] name) {
+    Symbol sym;
     long hashValue = hashSymbol(name);
     for (HashtableEntry e = (HashtableEntry) bucket(hashToIndex(hashValue)); e != null; e = (HashtableEntry) e.next()) {
       if (e.hash() == hashValue) {
-         Symbol sym = Symbol.create(e.literalValue());
+         sym = Symbol.create(e.literalValue());
          if (sym.equals(name)) {
            return sym;
          }
       }
     }
-    return null;
+
+    sym = sharedTable.probe(name, hashValue);
+    return sym;
   }
 
   public interface SymbolVisitor {