diff --git a/typo3/sysext/backend/Tests/Unit/Form/FormDataProvider/TcaSelectItemsTest.php b/typo3/sysext/backend/Tests/Unit/Form/FormDataProvider/TcaSelectItemsTest.php
index 0bc4d41f1a66820af41c5e5102a479677cf67cde..4fdc525be055e48b243d4f0beba0910c88dcd5d5 100644
--- a/typo3/sysext/backend/Tests/Unit/Form/FormDataProvider/TcaSelectItemsTest.php
+++ b/typo3/sysext/backend/Tests/Unit/Form/FormDataProvider/TcaSelectItemsTest.php
@@ -576,11 +576,6 @@ class TcaSelectItemsTest extends UnitTestCase
$languageService->loadSingleTableDescription(Argument::cetera())->willReturn(null);
$languageService->sL(Argument::cetera())->willReturnArgument(0);
- // Needed to suppress a cache in xml2array
- /** @var DatabaseConnection|ObjectProphecy $database */
- $database = $this->prophesize(DatabaseConnection::class);
- $GLOBALS['TYPO3_DB'] = $database->reveal();
-
$expectedItems = [
0 => [
0 => 'fooTableTitle aFlexFieldTitle dummy',
diff --git a/typo3/sysext/core/Classes/Utility/GeneralUtility.php b/typo3/sysext/core/Classes/Utility/GeneralUtility.php
index 473dac636a1be263e4fc6e03ce7f2139057eaa6b..6d4883ae8027f437c573f2291bbc525193667623 100755
--- a/typo3/sysext/core/Classes/Utility/GeneralUtility.php
+++ b/typo3/sysext/core/Classes/Utility/GeneralUtility.php
@@ -1775,13 +1775,7 @@ class GeneralUtility
if (!empty($firstLevelCache[$identifier])) {
$array = $firstLevelCache[$identifier];
} else {
- // Look up in second level cache
- // @todo: Is this cache really required? It basically substitutes a little cpu work with a db query?
- $array = PageRepository::getHash($identifier, 0);
- if (!is_array($array)) {
- $array = self::xml2arrayProcess($string, $NSprefix, $reportDocTag);
- PageRepository::storeHash($identifier, $array, 'ident_xml2array');
- }
+ $array = self::xml2arrayProcess($string, $NSprefix, $reportDocTag);
// Store content in first level cache
$firstLevelCache[$identifier] = $array;
}