diff -r 042294ceef52 -r f025738bbada hotspot/src/share/vm/gc/shared/vmGCOperations.cpp
--- 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;