diff a/src/hotspot/share/gc/g1/g1YoungCollector.cpp b/src/hotspot/share/gc/g1/g1YoungCollector.cpp
--- a/src/hotspot/share/gc/g1/g1YoungCollector.cpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/gc/g1/g1YoungCollector.cpp
@@ -333,17 +333,18 @@
       // dropping of large binary blobs is an important use case for eager reclaim,
       // and this special handling increases needed headroom.
       // It also helps with G1 allocating humongous objects as old generation
       // objects although they might also die quite quickly.
       //
-      // TypeArray objects are allowed to be reclaimed even if allocated before
+      // Humongous objects without oops (typeArrays, flatArrays without oops in
+      // its elements) are allowed to be reclaimed even if allocated before
       // the start of concurrent mark.  For this we rely on mark stack insertion
-      // to exclude is_typeArray() objects, preventing reclaiming an object
-      // that is in the mark stack.  We also rely on the metadata for
-      // such objects to be built-in and so ensured to be kept live.
+      // to exclude them, preventing reclaiming an object
+      // that is in the mark stack.  That code also ensures that metadata (klass)
+      // is kept live.
       //
-      // Non-typeArrays that were allocated before marking are excluded from
+      // Other humongous objects that were allocated before marking are excluded from
       // eager reclaim during marking.  One issue is the problem described
       // above with scrubbing the mark stack, but there is also a problem
       // causing these humongous objects being collected incorrectly:
       //
       // E.g. if the mutator is running, we may have objects o1 and o2 in the same
@@ -354,20 +355,21 @@
       // no remembered set entry would be created for keeping alive o2, as o1 and
       // o2 are in the same region.  Object h might be reclaimed by the next
       // garbage collection. o1 still has the reference to o2, but since o1 had
       // already been scanned we do not detect o2 to be still live and reclaim it.
       //
-      // There is another minor problem with non-typeArray regions being the source
-      // of remembered set entries in other region's remembered sets.  There are
-      // two cases: first, the remembered set entry is in a Free region after reclaim.
-      // We handle this case by ignoring these cards during merging the remembered
-      // sets.
+      // There is another minor problem with these humongous objects with oops being
+      // the source of remembered set entries in other region's remembered sets.
+      // There are two cases: first, the remembered set entry is in a Free region
+      // after reclaim.  We handle this case by ignoring these cards during merging
+      // the remembered sets.
       //
-      // Second, there may be cases where eagerly reclaimed regions were already
-      // reallocated.  This may cause scanning of these outdated remembered set
-      // entries, containing some objects. But apart from extra work this does
-      // not cause correctness issues.
+      // Second, there may be cases where regions previously containing eagerly
+      // reclaimed objects were already allocated into again.
+      // This may cause scanning of these outdated remembered set entries,
+      // containing some objects. But apart from extra work this does not cause
+      // correctness issues.
       // There is no difference between scanning cards covering an effectively
       // dead humongous object vs. some other objects in reallocated regions.
       //
       // TAMSes are only reset after completing the entire mark cycle, during
       // bitmap clearing. It is worth to not wait until then, and allow reclamation
@@ -380,11 +382,12 @@
       // miss a reference can not happen. No mutator is modifying the object
       // graph to install such an overlooked reference.
       //
       // After the pause, having reclaimed h, obviously the mutator can't fetch
       // the reference from h any more.
-      if (!obj->is_typeArray()) {
+      bool marked_immediately = _g1h->can_be_marked_through_immediately(obj);
+      if (!marked_immediately) {
         // All regions that were allocated before marking have a TAMS != bottom.
         bool allocated_before_mark_start = region->bottom() != _g1h->concurrent_mark()->top_at_mark_start(region);
         bool mark_in_progress = _g1h->collector_state()->is_in_marking();
 
         if (allocated_before_mark_start && mark_in_progress) {