diff --git a/src/share/vm/opto/loopnode.cpp b/src/share/vm/opto/loopnode.cpp
index 785ef44398553466d08fbccb7d9ad17cac453fd0..204eeea65b8c24432f9a9854e3592c89726240b6 100644
--- a/src/share/vm/opto/loopnode.cpp
+++ b/src/share/vm/opto/loopnode.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2011, 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
@@ -1480,6 +1480,8 @@ void PhaseIdealLoop::eliminate_useless_predicates() {
 // Create a PhaseLoop.  Build the ideal Loop tree.  Map each Ideal Node to
 // its corresponding LoopNode.  If 'optimize' is true, do some loop cleanups.
 void PhaseIdealLoop::build_and_optimize(bool do_split_ifs, bool do_loop_pred) {
+  ResourceMark rm;
+
   int old_progress = C->major_progress();
 
   // Reset major-progress flag for the driver's heuristics
@@ -2013,7 +2015,7 @@ void PhaseIdealLoop::recompute_dom_depth() {
   if (_dom_stk == NULL) {
     uint init_size = C->unique() / 100; // Guess that 1/100 is a reasonable initial size.
     if (init_size < 10) init_size = 10;
-    _dom_stk = new (C->node_arena()) GrowableArray<uint>(C->node_arena(), init_size, 0, 0);
+    _dom_stk = new GrowableArray<uint>(init_size);
   }
   // Compute new depth for each node.
   for (i = 0; i < _idom_size; i++) {
diff --git a/src/share/vm/opto/loopnode.hpp b/src/share/vm/opto/loopnode.hpp
index f11b7c94233f93137cb3f263007b6ce30d8d78b4..7f44acccf632835261b506b1c4fec9812e0c7a4b 100644
--- a/src/share/vm/opto/loopnode.hpp
+++ b/src/share/vm/opto/loopnode.hpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2011, 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
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ private:
   PhaseIdealLoop( PhaseIterGVN &igvn) :
     PhaseTransform(Ideal_Loop),
     _igvn(igvn),
-    _dom_lca_tags(C->comp_arena()),
+    _dom_lca_tags(arena()), // Thread::resource_area
     _verify_me(NULL),
     _verify_only(true) {
     build_and_optimize(false, false);
@@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ public:
   PhaseIdealLoop( PhaseIterGVN &igvn, bool do_split_ifs, bool do_loop_pred) :
     PhaseTransform(Ideal_Loop),
     _igvn(igvn),
-    _dom_lca_tags(C->comp_arena()),
+    _dom_lca_tags(arena()), // Thread::resource_area
     _verify_me(NULL),
     _verify_only(false) {
     build_and_optimize(do_split_ifs, do_loop_pred);
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ public:
   PhaseIdealLoop( PhaseIterGVN &igvn, const PhaseIdealLoop *verify_me) :
     PhaseTransform(Ideal_Loop),
     _igvn(igvn),
-    _dom_lca_tags(C->comp_arena()),
+    _dom_lca_tags(arena()), // Thread::resource_area
     _verify_me(verify_me),
     _verify_only(false) {
     build_and_optimize(false, false);