diff --git a/src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/aarch64.ad b/src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/aarch64.ad
index 7fa7f07d6c4..d239044e66d 100644
--- a/src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/aarch64.ad
+++ b/src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/aarch64.ad
@@ -1099,7 +1099,7 @@ source %{
 
     // r27 is not allocatable when compressed oops is on and heapbase is not
     // zero, compressed klass pointers doesn't use r27 after JDK-8234794
-    if (UseCompressedOops && CompressedOops::ptrs_base() != NULL) {
+    if (UseCompressedOops && (CompressedOops::ptrs_base() != NULL || UseAOT)) {
       _NO_SPECIAL_REG32_mask.Remove(OptoReg::as_OptoReg(r27->as_VMReg()));
       _NO_SPECIAL_REG_mask.SUBTRACT(_HEAPBASE_REG_mask);
       _NO_SPECIAL_PTR_REG_mask.SUBTRACT(_HEAPBASE_REG_mask);