diff -r 7815eaceaa8c -r 6f817ce50129 src/share/vm/runtime/synchronizer.cpp
--- a/src/share/vm/runtime/synchronizer.cpp	Thu Apr 18 14:03:37 2013 -0400
+++ b/src/share/vm/runtime/synchronizer.cpp	Fri Apr 19 11:08:52 2013 -0700
@@ -1012,7 +1012,8 @@
         // Both the local and global free lists are empty -- resort to malloc().
         // In the current implementation objectMonitors are TSM - immortal.
         assert (_BLOCKSIZE > 1, "invariant") ;
-        ObjectMonitor * temp = new ObjectMonitor[_BLOCKSIZE];
+        ObjectMonitor * temp;
+        NEW_C_HEAP_OBJECT_ARRAY(temp, ObjectMonitor, _BLOCKSIZE, mtInternal, 0, AllocFailStrategy::RETURN_NULL);
 
         // NOTE: (almost) no way to recover if allocation failed.
         // We might be able to induce a STW safepoint and scavenge enough