--- a/src/hotspot/share/gc/shared/genCollectedHeap.cpp	Mon Feb 12 16:08:33 2018 -0800
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/gc/shared/genCollectedHeap.cpp	Wed Jan 10 22:48:27 2018 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2000, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, 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
@@ -71,8 +71,6 @@
 }
 
 jint GenCollectedHeap::initialize() {
-  CollectedHeap::pre_initialize();
-
   // While there are no constraints in the GC code that HeapWordSize
   // be any particular value, there are multiple other areas in the
   // system which believe this to be true (e.g. oop->object_size in some