--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/java.cpp	Tue Feb 14 20:00:28 2017 -0800
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/java.cpp	Wed Feb 15 22:59:57 2017 -0500
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1997, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1997, 2017, 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
@@ -99,9 +99,6 @@
 
 void collect_profiled_methods(Method* m) {
   Thread* thread = Thread::current();
-  // This HandleMark prevents a huge amount of handles from being added
-  // to the metadata_handles() array on the thread.
-  HandleMark hm(thread);
   methodHandle mh(thread, m);
   if ((m->method_data() != NULL) &&
       (PrintMethodData || CompilerOracle::should_print(mh))) {