diff -r 1b68c738c0d9 -r afa80fa86d22 src/share/vm/runtime/sharedRuntime.cpp
--- a/src/share/vm/runtime/sharedRuntime.cpp	Sun Feb 22 17:21:13 2009 -0800
+++ b/src/share/vm/runtime/sharedRuntime.cpp	Mon Mar 02 14:43:36 2009 -0700
@@ -377,6 +377,32 @@
   throw_and_post_jvmti_exception(thread, h_exception);
 }
 
+// The interpreter code to call this tracing function is only
+// called/generated when TraceRedefineClasses has the right bits
+// set. Since obsolete methods are never compiled, we don't have
+// to modify the compilers to generate calls to this function.
+//
+JRT_LEAF(int, SharedRuntime::rc_trace_method_entry(
+    JavaThread* thread, methodOopDesc* method))
+  assert(RC_TRACE_IN_RANGE(0x00001000, 0x00002000), "wrong call");
+
+  if (method->is_obsolete()) {
+    // We are calling an obsolete method, but this is not necessarily
+    // an error. Our method could have been redefined just after we
+    // fetched the methodOop from the constant pool.
+
+    // RC_TRACE macro has an embedded ResourceMark
+    RC_TRACE_WITH_THREAD(0x00001000, thread,
+                         ("calling obsolete method '%s'",
+                          method->name_and_sig_as_C_string()));
+    if (RC_TRACE_ENABLED(0x00002000)) {
+      // this option is provided to debug calls to obsolete methods
+      guarantee(false, "faulting at call to an obsolete method.");
+    }
+  }
+  return 0;
+JRT_END
+
 // ret_pc points into caller; we are returning caller's exception handler
 // for given exception
 address SharedRuntime::compute_compiled_exc_handler(nmethod* nm, address ret_pc, Handle& exception,