The thread roots may still contain forwarded oops. Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8224508 Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zgu/JDK-8224508/webrev.00/ Test: hotspot_gc_shenandoah (fastdebug and release) with fixed verifier Thanks, -Zhengyu