diff --git a/hotspot/src/share/vm/oops/methodData.cpp b/hotspot/src/share/vm/oops/methodData.cpp
index d5f5d6ad454..85f7c9b6098 100644
--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/oops/methodData.cpp
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/oops/methodData.cpp
@@ -1729,6 +1729,7 @@ void MethodData::verify_extra_data_clean(CleanExtraDataClosure* cl) {
 }
 
 void MethodData::clean_method_data(BoolObjectClosure* is_alive) {
+  ResourceMark rm;
   for (ProfileData* data = first_data();
        is_valid(data);
        data = next_data(data)) {
@@ -1745,6 +1746,7 @@ void MethodData::clean_method_data(BoolObjectClosure* is_alive) {
 }
 
 void MethodData::clean_weak_method_links() {
+  ResourceMark rm;
   for (ProfileData* data = first_data();
        is_valid(data);
        data = next_data(data)) {
@@ -1758,6 +1760,7 @@ void MethodData::clean_weak_method_links() {
 
 #ifdef ASSERT
 void MethodData::verify_clean_weak_method_links() {
+  ResourceMark rm;
   for (ProfileData* data = first_data();
        is_valid(data);
        data = next_data(data)) {