diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala
index ff5d796ee276..8bfa4c013672 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala
@@ -520,10 +520,12 @@ class SparkContext(config: SparkConf) extends Logging with ExecutorAllocationCli
 
   /** Distribute a local Scala collection to form an RDD.
    *
-   * @note Parallelize acts lazily. If `seq` is a mutable collection and is
-   * altered after the call to parallelize and before the first action on the
-   * RDD, the resultant RDD will reflect the modified collection. Pass a copy of
-   * the argument to avoid this.
+   * @note Parallelize acts lazily. If `seq` is a mutable collection and is altered after the call
+   * to parallelize and before the first action on the RDD, the resultant RDD will reflect the
+   * modified collection. Pass a copy of the argument to avoid this.
+   *
+   * @note When splitting Range, the sub Range is exclusive. However the last slice for inclusive
+   * Range is inclusive.
    */
   def parallelize[T: ClassTag](seq: Seq[T], numSlices: Int = defaultParallelism): RDD[T] = {
     new ParallelCollectionRDD[T](this, seq, numSlices, Map[Int, Seq[String]]())
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/ParallelCollectionRDD.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/ParallelCollectionRDD.scala
index 87b22de6ae69..f12d0cffaba3 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/ParallelCollectionRDD.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/ParallelCollectionRDD.scala
@@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ private object ParallelCollectionRDD {
   /**
    * Slice a collection into numSlices sub-collections. One extra thing we do here is to treat Range
    * collections specially, encoding the slices as other Ranges to minimize memory cost. This makes
-   * it efficient to run Spark over RDDs representing large sets of numbers.
+   * it efficient to run Spark over RDDs representing large sets of numbers. And if the collection
+   * is an inclusive Range, we use inclusive range for the last slice.
    */
   def slice[T: ClassTag](seq: Seq[T], numSlices: Int): Seq[Seq[T]] = {
     if (numSlices < 1) {
@@ -127,19 +128,15 @@ private object ParallelCollectionRDD {
       })
     }
     seq match {
-      case r: Range.Inclusive => {
-        val sign = if (r.step < 0) {
-          -1
-        } else {
-          1
-        }
-        slice(new Range(
-          r.start, r.end + sign, r.step).asInstanceOf[Seq[T]], numSlices)
-      }
       case r: Range => {
-        positions(r.length, numSlices).map({
-          case (start, end) =>
+        positions(r.length, numSlices).zipWithIndex.map({ case ((start, end), index) =>
+          // If the range is inclusive, use inclusive range for the last slice
+          if (r.isInclusive && index == numSlices - 1) {
+            new Range.Inclusive(r.start + start * r.step, r.end, r.step)
+          }
+          else {
             new Range(r.start + start * r.step, r.start + end * r.step, r.step)
+          }
         }).toSeq.asInstanceOf[Seq[Seq[T]]]
       }
       case nr: NumericRange[_] => {
diff --git a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/ParallelCollectionSplitSuite.scala b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/ParallelCollectionSplitSuite.scala
index 1b112f1a41ca..cd193ae4f523 100644
--- a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/ParallelCollectionSplitSuite.scala
+++ b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/ParallelCollectionSplitSuite.scala
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ class ParallelCollectionSplitSuite extends FunSuite with Checkers {
     assert(slices(0).mkString(",") === (0 to 32).mkString(","))
     assert(slices(1).mkString(",") === (33 to 66).mkString(","))
     assert(slices(2).mkString(",") === (67 to 100).mkString(","))
+    assert(slices(2).isInstanceOf[Range.Inclusive])
   }
 
   test("empty data") {
@@ -227,4 +228,28 @@ class ParallelCollectionSplitSuite extends FunSuite with Checkers {
     assert(slices.map(_.size).reduceLeft(_+_) === 100)
     assert(slices.forall(_.isInstanceOf[NumericRange[_]]))
   }
+
+  test("inclusive ranges with Int.MaxValue and Int.MinValue") {
+    val data1 = 1 to Int.MaxValue
+    val slices1 = ParallelCollectionRDD.slice(data1, 3)
+    assert(slices1.size === 3)
+    assert(slices1.map(_.size).sum === Int.MaxValue)
+    assert(slices1(2).isInstanceOf[Range.Inclusive])
+    val data2 = -2 to Int.MinValue by -1
+    val slices2 = ParallelCollectionRDD.slice(data2, 3)
+    assert(slices2.size == 3)
+    assert(slices2.map(_.size).sum === Int.MaxValue)
+    assert(slices2(2).isInstanceOf[Range.Inclusive])
+  }
+
+  test("empty ranges with Int.MaxValue and Int.MinValue") {
+    val data1 = Int.MaxValue until Int.MaxValue
+    val slices1 = ParallelCollectionRDD.slice(data1, 5)
+    assert(slices1.size === 5)
+    for (i <- 0 until 5) assert(slices1(i).size === 0)
+    val data2 = Int.MaxValue until Int.MaxValue
+    val slices2 = ParallelCollectionRDD.slice(data2, 5)
+    assert(slices2.size === 5)
+    for (i <- 0 until 5) assert(slices2(i).size === 0)
+  }
 }