diff --git a/deps/v8/build/common.gypi b/deps/v8/build/common.gypi
index 0b1f397268..8028b3eecb 100644
--- a/deps/v8/build/common.gypi
+++ b/deps/v8/build/common.gypi
@@ -454,15 +454,6 @@
           }],
           ['OS=="linux" or OS=="freebsd" or OS=="openbsd" or OS=="netbsd" \
             or OS=="android"', {
-            'cflags!': [
-              '-O2',
-              '-Os',
-            ],
-            'cflags': [
-              '-fdata-sections',
-              '-ffunction-sections',
-              '-O3',
-            ],
             'conditions': [
               [ 'gcc_version==44 and clang==0', {
                 'cflags': [
diff --git a/deps/v8/src/platform-posix.cc b/deps/v8/src/platform-posix.cc
index 48898ed9aa..2cf898dd60 100644
--- a/deps/v8/src/platform-posix.cc
+++ b/deps/v8/src/platform-posix.cc
@@ -115,11 +115,26 @@ void* OS::GetRandomMmapAddr() {
     raw_addr &= V8_UINT64_C(0x3ffffffff000);
 #else
     uint32_t raw_addr = V8::RandomPrivate(isolate);
+
+    raw_addr &= 0x3ffff000;
+
+# ifdef __sun
+    // For our Solaris/illumos mmap hint, we pick a random address in the bottom
+    // half of the top half of the address space (that is, the third quarter).
+    // Because we do not MAP_FIXED, this will be treated only as a hint -- the
+    // system will not fail to mmap() because something else happens to already
+    // be mapped at our random address. We deliberately set the hint high enough
+    // to get well above the system's break (that is, the heap); Solaris and
+    // illumos will try the hint and if that fails allocate as if there were
+    // no hint at all. The high hint prevents the break from getting hemmed in
+    // at low values, ceding half of the address space to the system heap.
+    raw_addr += 0x80000000;
+# else
     // The range 0x20000000 - 0x60000000 is relatively unpopulated across a
     // variety of ASLR modes (PAE kernel, NX compat mode, etc) and on macos
     // 10.6 and 10.7.
-    raw_addr &= 0x3ffff000;
     raw_addr += 0x20000000;
+# endif
 #endif
     return reinterpret_cast<void*>(raw_addr);
   }