--- a/src/hotspot/share/classfile/dictionary.cpp	Fri Feb 01 12:44:30 2019 +0100
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/classfile/dictionary.cpp	Fri Feb 01 06:42:41 2019 -0500
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2003, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2003, 2019, 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
@@ -198,41 +198,6 @@
   }
 }
 
-// During class loading we may have cached a protection domain that has
-// since been unreferenced, so this entry should be cleared.
-void Dictionary::clean_cached_protection_domains(DictionaryEntry* probe) {
-  assert_locked_or_safepoint(SystemDictionary_lock);
-
-  ProtectionDomainEntry* current = probe->pd_set();
-  ProtectionDomainEntry* prev = NULL;
-  while (current != NULL) {
-    if (current->object_no_keepalive() == NULL) {
-      LogTarget(Debug, protectiondomain) lt;
-      if (lt.is_enabled()) {
-        ResourceMark rm;
-        // Print out trace information
-        LogStream ls(lt);
-        ls.print_cr("PD in set is not alive:");
-        ls.print("class loader: "); loader_data()->class_loader()->print_value_on(&ls);
-        ls.print(" loading: "); probe->instance_klass()->print_value_on(&ls);
-        ls.cr();
-      }
-      if (probe->pd_set() == current) {
-        probe->set_pd_set(current->next());
-      } else {
-        assert(prev != NULL, "should be set by alive entry");
-        prev->set_next(current->next());
-      }
-      ProtectionDomainEntry* to_delete = current;
-      current = current->next();
-      delete to_delete;
-    } else {
-      prev = current;
-      current = current->next();
-    }
-  }
-}
-
 //   Just the classes from defining class loaders
 void Dictionary::classes_do(void f(InstanceKlass*)) {
   for (int index = 0; index < table_size(); index++) {