diff -r 40197ffbf423 -r 8318f84ac604 hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/shared/markSweep.inline.hpp
--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/shared/markSweep.inline.hpp	Tue Nov 22 14:18:39 2011 -0800
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/shared/markSweep.inline.hpp	Tue Nov 22 14:59:34 2011 -0800
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2011, 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
@@ -63,18 +63,6 @@
   follow_stack();
 }
 
-template <class T> inline void MarkSweep::mark_and_follow(T* p) {
-//  assert(Universe::heap()->is_in_reserved(p), "should be in object space");
-  T heap_oop = oopDesc::load_heap_oop(p);
-  if (!oopDesc::is_null(heap_oop)) {
-    oop obj = oopDesc::decode_heap_oop_not_null(heap_oop);
-    if (!obj->mark()->is_marked()) {
-      mark_object(obj);
-      obj->follow_contents();
-    }
-  }
-}
-
 template <class T> inline void MarkSweep::mark_and_push(T* p) {
 //  assert(Universe::heap()->is_in_reserved(p), "should be in object space");
   T heap_oop = oopDesc::load_heap_oop(p);