diff --git a/src/hotspot/share/gc/g1/g1SegmentedArray.hpp b/src/hotspot/share/gc/g1/g1SegmentedArray.hpp
index b3f6680b02a5..7eb40719ce72 100644
--- a/src/hotspot/share/gc/g1/g1SegmentedArray.hpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/gc/g1/g1SegmentedArray.hpp
@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ class G1SegmentedArrayBufferList {
   ~G1SegmentedArrayBufferList() { free_all(); }
 
   void bulk_add(G1SegmentedArrayBuffer<flag>& first, G1SegmentedArrayBuffer<flag>& last, size_t num, size_t mem_size);
-  void add(G1SegmentedArrayBuffer<flag>& elem) { _list.prepend(elem); }
 
   G1SegmentedArrayBuffer<flag>* get();
   G1SegmentedArrayBuffer<flag>* get_all(size_t& num_buffers, size_t& mem_size);