diff --git a/src/cpu/x86/vm/macroAssembler_x86.cpp b/src/cpu/x86/vm/macroAssembler_x86.cpp
index 5857a9350067d6badf2dd0fc46cb27b0c9c91a12..29115a27c2190c4313df16593a253b61b3f3d085 100644
--- a/src/cpu/x86/vm/macroAssembler_x86.cpp
+++ b/src/cpu/x86/vm/macroAssembler_x86.cpp
@@ -6690,7 +6690,7 @@ void MacroAssembler::string_compare(Register str1, Register str2,
     subl(cnt2, stride2);
     jccb(Assembler::notZero, COMPARE_WIDE_VECTORS_LOOP);
     // clean upper bits of YMM registers
-    vzeroupper();
+    vpxor(vec1, vec1);
 
     // compare wide vectors tail
     bind(COMPARE_WIDE_TAIL);
@@ -6705,7 +6705,7 @@ void MacroAssembler::string_compare(Register str1, Register str2,
     // Identifies the mismatching (higher or lower)16-bytes in the 32-byte vectors.
     bind(VECTOR_NOT_EQUAL);
     // clean upper bits of YMM registers
-    vzeroupper();
+    vpxor(vec1, vec1);
     lea(str1, Address(str1, result, scale));
     lea(str2, Address(str2, result, scale));
     jmp(COMPARE_16_CHARS);
@@ -6964,7 +6964,8 @@ void MacroAssembler::char_arrays_equals(bool is_array_equ, Register ary1, Regist
   bind(DONE);
   if (UseAVX >= 2) {
     // clean upper bits of YMM registers
-    vzeroupper();
+    vpxor(vec1, vec1);
+    vpxor(vec2, vec2);
   }
 }
 
@@ -7098,7 +7099,8 @@ void MacroAssembler::generate_fill(BasicType t, bool aligned,
 
         BIND(L_check_fill_8_bytes);
         // clean upper bits of YMM registers
-        vzeroupper();
+        movdl(xtmp, value);
+        pshufd(xtmp, xtmp, 0);
       } else {
         // Fill 32-byte chunks
         pshufd(xtmp, xtmp, 0);
@@ -7261,7 +7263,11 @@ void MacroAssembler::encode_iso_array(Register src, Register dst, Register len,
     bind(L_copy_16_chars_exit);
     if (UseAVX >= 2) {
       // clean upper bits of YMM registers
-      vzeroupper();
+      vpxor(tmp2Reg, tmp2Reg);
+      vpxor(tmp3Reg, tmp3Reg);
+      vpxor(tmp4Reg, tmp4Reg);
+      movdl(tmp1Reg, tmp5);
+      pshufd(tmp1Reg, tmp1Reg, 0);
     }
     subptr(len, 8);
     jccb(Assembler::greater, L_copy_8_chars_exit);
diff --git a/src/cpu/x86/vm/stubGenerator_x86_32.cpp b/src/cpu/x86/vm/stubGenerator_x86_32.cpp
index 1622fe5ffc5bda772b97cd9ccc490d0a9e9b3da1..5387ba1842926356a81726930ab9d895d6db0651 100644
--- a/src/cpu/x86/vm/stubGenerator_x86_32.cpp
+++ b/src/cpu/x86/vm/stubGenerator_x86_32.cpp
@@ -837,7 +837,8 @@ class StubGenerator: public StubCodeGenerator {
 
     if (UseUnalignedLoadStores && (UseAVX >= 2)) {
       // clean upper bits of YMM registers
-      __ vzeroupper();
+      __ vpxor(xmm0, xmm0);
+      __ vpxor(xmm1, xmm1);
     }
     __ addl(qword_count, 8);
     __ jccb(Assembler::zero, L_exit);
diff --git a/src/cpu/x86/vm/stubGenerator_x86_64.cpp b/src/cpu/x86/vm/stubGenerator_x86_64.cpp
index 0000146f53563d75940e6f16c06f500aa2552f19..0bb6118d722f8c7f0f8c847377d2f50aeac14ed3 100644
--- a/src/cpu/x86/vm/stubGenerator_x86_64.cpp
+++ b/src/cpu/x86/vm/stubGenerator_x86_64.cpp
@@ -1328,7 +1328,8 @@ class StubGenerator: public StubCodeGenerator {
       __ BIND(L_end);
       if (UseAVX >= 2) {
         // clean upper bits of YMM registers
-        __ vzeroupper();
+        __ vpxor(xmm0, xmm0);
+        __ vpxor(xmm1, xmm1);
       }
     } else {
       // Copy 32-bytes per iteration
@@ -1405,7 +1406,8 @@ class StubGenerator: public StubCodeGenerator {
       __ BIND(L_end);
       if (UseAVX >= 2) {
         // clean upper bits of YMM registers
-        __ vzeroupper();
+        __ vpxor(xmm0, xmm0);
+        __ vpxor(xmm1, xmm1);
       }
     } else {
       // Copy 32-bytes per iteration