--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc/shared/vmGCOperations.cpp Fri Mar 18 11:42:32 2016 +0100
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc/shared/vmGCOperations.cpp Fri Mar 18 13:18:58 2016 +0100
@@ -271,12 +271,8 @@
return;
}
- // If expansion failed, do a last-ditch collection and try allocating
- // again. A last-ditch collection will clear softrefs. This
- // behavior is similar to the last-ditch collection done for perm
- // gen when it was full and a collection for failed allocation
- // did not free perm gen space.
- heap->collect_as_vm_thread(GCCause::_last_ditch_collection);
+ // If expansion failed, do a collection clearing soft references.
+ heap->collect_as_vm_thread(GCCause::_metadata_GC_clear_soft_refs);
_result = _loader_data->metaspace_non_null()->allocate(_size, _mdtype);
if (_result != NULL) {
return;