Hi, Please review this small change. GCs, such as Shenandoah, need proper barrier for oop comparison. Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210879 Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zgu/8210879/webrev.00/ Test: hotspot_gc on Linux x64 (fastdebug and release) Thanks, -Zhengyu