--- a/src/hotspot/share/gc/cms/concurrentMarkSweepGeneration.cpp	Thu Feb 22 12:05:17 2018 -0500
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/gc/cms/concurrentMarkSweepGeneration.cpp	Thu Feb 22 18:34:18 2018 +0100
@@ -1182,8 +1182,6 @@
   // this is not likely to be productive in practice because it's probably too
   // late anyway.
   CMSHeap* heap = CMSHeap::heap();
-  assert(heap->collector_policy()->is_generation_policy(),
-         "You may want to check the correctness of the following");
   if (heap->incremental_collection_will_fail(true /* consult_young */)) {
     log.print("CMSCollector: collect because incremental collection will fail ");
     return true;