Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes

Summary: Adjust performance flags settings.
Reviewed-by: never, phh

Reviewed-by: phh

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Added new product ObjectAlignmentInBytes flag to control object alignment.
Reviewed-by: twisti, ysr, iveresov

Reviewed-by: coleenp, never, gbenson

6949307: G1: raise a vm error, do not core dump, if target pause time and target interval are inconsistent
Summary: First, change the guarantee to raising a vm error. Second, set the interval dynamically, and based on the pause time target, if it is not set explicitly.
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc

Summary: Remove the G1GCPercent parameter, that specifies the desired GC overhead percentage in G1, and observe the GCTimeRatio parameter instead.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: Some code cleanups found during the JSR 292 SPARC port.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Use an explicit stack for object arrays and process them in chunks.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, apetrusenko

Summary: Rename marking stack sizing flags to be common between G1 and CMS
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: replace the combination of the G1SteadyStateUsed / G1SteadyStateUsedDelta parameteres to decide the marking initiation threshold and instead use InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent.
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc

Summary: Clear the total count when a receiver information is cleared.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Interval checking is now being performed on the values passed in for these two flags. The current acceptable range for RefDiscoveryPolicy is [0..1], and for TLABWasteTargetPercent it is [1..100].
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr

Summary: Add safepoint after CompileTheWorldSafepointInterval (100) compilations and do full sweep of CodeCache each time.
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: eric.caspole@amd.com

Summary: More informative disassembly in product mode.  Also, a more consistent CompileCommand syntax.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Change the flag -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal to product and add new product flag -XX:+PrintFlagsInitial.
Reviewed-by: phh, ysr
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com

6637203: Classunloading messages go to stdout rather than Xloggc file, causing hangs when stdout is closed
Summary: Decoupled TraceClassUnloading from verbose:gc, JVMTI_VERBOSE_GC and PrintGC[Details], making it settable in a manner identical to TraceClassLoading. Reverted an inadvertent change of TraceClassUnloading output in a previous changeset from gclog back to tty.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, jmasa, poonam

Summary: During the work for 6829187 we have fixed a number of basic bugs which are logically grouped with 6815692 and 6858164 but which must be reviewed and pushed separately.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Smaller fixes to ensure that Zero still works with non-standard options.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Autonomic per-worker free block cache sizing, tunable coalition policies, fixes to per-size block statistics, retuned gain and bandwidth of some feedback loop filters to allow quicker reactivity to abrupt changes in ambient demand, and other heuristics to reduce fragmentation of the CMS old gen. Also tightened some assertions, including those related to locking.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Set minimum heap size to min(OldSize + NewSize, MaxHeapSize) in Arguments::set_heap_size().
Reviewed-by: kvn, ysr, tonyp

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Apply modification of existing server heap size ergo to all collectors except CMS.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ysr, xlu

Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com

Summary: Make a special root-list for those few nmethods which might contain non-perm oops.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, jmasa, ysr

Summary: Fix CDS/CMS option overrides related to iCMS option CMSIncrementalMode; explicate overrides to error stream.
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: enable compressed oops by default
Reviewed-by: never, ysr

Summary: Use NewRatio if it is explicitly set.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Modifications to G1 so as to allow the use of compressed oops.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, coleenp, jmasa, kvn, never, phh, tonyp

Summary: Change G1 flag names to be more consistent and disable some in 'product' mode.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: initial implementation, with known omissions (x86/64, sparc, compiler optim., c-oops, C++ interp.)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, never

Summary: Support multiplex and mutable sun.boot.library.path
Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed, xlu

Summary: Use SSE 4.2 in intrinsics for String.{compareTo/equals/indexOf} and Arrays.equals.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Summary: Use zero based compressed oops if java heap is below 32gb and unscaled compressed oops if java heap is below 4gb.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jcoomes, coleenp

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 03/09
Reviewed-by: katleman, tbell, ohair

Summary: Allocate worker-local overflow stacks, introduced in 6819891, along with ParNewGeneration, rather than with the per-scavenge ParScanThreadState.
Reviewed-by: jmasa