diff a/src/hotspot/share/gc/g1/g1CollectedHeap.cpp b/src/hotspot/share/gc/g1/g1CollectedHeap.cpp
--- a/src/hotspot/share/gc/g1/g1CollectedHeap.cpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/gc/g1/g1CollectedHeap.cpp
@@ -1652,10 +1652,13 @@
   // Stop all concurrent threads. We do this to make sure these threads
   // do not continue to execute and access resources (e.g. logging)
   // that are destroyed during shutdown.
   _cr->stop();
   _service_thread->stop();
+  VM_G1StopMarking op;
+  VMThread::execute(&op);
+
   _cm->stop();
 }
 
 void G1CollectedHeap::safepoint_synchronize_begin() {
   SuspendibleThreadSet::synchronize();