diff a/src/hotspot/share/gc/shared/referenceProcessor.cpp b/src/hotspot/share/gc/shared/referenceProcessor.cpp
--- a/src/hotspot/share/gc/shared/referenceProcessor.cpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/gc/shared/referenceProcessor.cpp
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2001, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2001, 2019, 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
  * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.
@@ -117,13 +117,10 @@
   _num_queues          = MAX2(1U, mt_processing_degree);
   _max_num_queues      = MAX2(_num_queues, mt_discovery_degree);
   _discovered_refs     = NEW_C_HEAP_ARRAY(DiscoveredList,
             _max_num_queues * number_of_subclasses_of_ref(), mtGC);
 
-  if (_discovered_refs == NULL) {
-    vm_exit_during_initialization("Could not allocated RefProc Array");
-  }
   _discoveredSoftRefs    = &_discovered_refs[0];
   _discoveredWeakRefs    = &_discoveredSoftRefs[_max_num_queues];
   _discoveredFinalRefs   = &_discoveredWeakRefs[_max_num_queues];
   _discoveredPhantomRefs = &_discoveredFinalRefs[_max_num_queues];