7034139: G1: assert(Thread::current()->is_ConcurrentGC_thread()) failed: only a conc GC thread can call this.
Summary: We were calling STS join and leave during a STW pause and we are not suppoesed to. I now only call those during  concurrent phase. I also added stress code in the non-product builds to force an overflows (the condition that ws uncovering the bug) to make sure it does not happen again.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Summary: It introduces non-product cmd line parameter G1DummyRegionsPerGC which indicates how many "dummy" regions to allocate at the end of each GC. This allows the G1 heap to grow artificially and makes concurrent marking cycles more frequent irrespective of what the application that is running is doing. The dummy regions will be found totally empty during cleanup so this parameter can also be used to stress the concurrent cleanup operation.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: A referent object that is only weakly reachable at the start of concurrent marking but is re-attached to the strongly reachable object graph during marking may not be marked as live. This can cause the reference object to be processed prematurely and leave dangling pointers to the referent object. Implement a read barrier for the java.lang.ref.Reference::referent field by intrinsifying the Reference.get() method, and intercepting accesses though JNI, reflection, and Unsafe, so that when a non-null referent object is read it is also logged in an SATB buffer.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, never, tonyp, dholmes

Summary: Disable reference discovery and processing during concurrent marking by disabling fix for 6994628.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: Repurpose the existing flag G1PrintRegionLivenessInfo to print out the liveness distribution across the regions in the heap at the end of marking.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, jwilhelm

Summary: Manage allocation/freeing of the card cache counts and epochs arrays directly so that an allocation failure while attempting to expand these arrays does not abort the JVM. Failure to expand these arrays is not fatal.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

7007446: G1: expand the heap with a single step, not one region at a time
Summary: Changed G1CollectedHeap::expand() to expand the committed space by calling VirtualSpace::expand_by() once rather than for every region in the expansion amount. This allows the success or failure of the expansion to be determined before creating any heap regions. Introduced a develop flag G1ExitOnExpansionFailure (false by default) that, when true, will exit the VM if the expansion of the committed space fails. Finally G1CollectedHeap::expand() returns a status back to it's caller so that the caller knows whether to attempt the allocation.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp

Summary: Implement support for ParallelRefProcEnabled in the reference processing that takes place at the end of G1 concurrent marking.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: This changeset removes the zero-filling thread from G1 and collapses the two free region lists we had before (the "free" and "unclean" lists) into one. The new free list uses the new heap region sets / lists abstractions that we'll ultimately use it to keep track of all regions in the heap. A heap region set was also introduced for the humongous regions. Finally, this change increases the concurrency between the thread that completes freeing regions (after a cleanup pause) and the rest of the system (before we'd have to wait for said thread to complete before allocating a new region). The changest also includes a lot of refactoring and code simplification.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, johnc

Summary: This changeset introduces filtering of SATB buffers at the point when they are about to be enqueued. If this filtering clears enough entries on each buffer, the buffer can then be re-used and not enqueued. This cuts down the number of SATB buffers that need to be processed by the concurrent marking threads.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Summary: Remove G1RemSet base class and StupidG1RemSet class; rename HRInto_G1RemSet to just G1RemSet.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

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

Summary: Rather than changing the default value of the G1UseFixedWindowMMUTracker, the flag and associated guarantee have been removed.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, tonyp, ysr

6871109: G1: remove the concept of the scan only prefix
Summary: Removed scan only regions and associated code. The young portion of the collection set is now constructed incrementally - when a young region is retired as the current allocation region it is added to the collection set.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, tonyp

Summary: Replaces the G1-specific parameter with the existing ones that are used by the other GCs (YoungPLABSize and OldPLABSize)
Reviewed-by: tonyp, johnc

Summary: Enable parallel RSet updating and scanning.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, jmasa

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: see synopsis
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa

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: Rename G1 parameters to make them more consistent.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: Implemented block-based work stealing. Moved copying during the rset scanning phase to the main copying phase. Made the size of rset table depend on the region size.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, tonyp

Summary: G1 now answers "no" to the query can_elide_initializing_store_barrier() in the product build. A debug flag allows alternate behaviour in debug builds.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Summary: Reworked the concurrent refinement: threads activation, feedback-based threshold adjustment, other miscellaneous fixes.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, tonyp

Summary: ScavengeALot now causes an incremental (but possibly partially young, in the G1 sense) collection. Some such collections may be abandoned on account of MMU specs. Band-aided a native leak associated with abandoned pauses, as well as an MMU tracker overflow related to frequent scavenge events in the face of a large MMU denominator interval; the latter is protected by a product flag that defaults to false.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Protected stats dump with a new develop flag; other than for the dump, reconciled product and non-product behaviour in face of the error.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Revamp the reachable object dump debugging facility.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, apetrusenko

Summary: The first worker thread is delayed when entering the GC because it clears the card count table that is used in identifying hot cards. Replace the card count table with a dynamically sized evicting hash table that includes an epoch based counter.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Summary: Instead of the region size being hard-coded, allow the user to set it.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, apetrusenko

Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Summary: Removing the concurrent overhead tracker from G1, along with the GC overhead reporter and the G1AccountConcurrentOverhead (both of which rely on the the concurrent overhead tracker).
Reviewed-by: iveresov, johnc

Summary: It adds parameter -XX:+G1SummarizeRSetStatsPeriod that causes update buffer processing information to be printed periodically. It also includes two small formatting changes.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes, ysr

Summary: renaming a couple of update buffer-related parameters to make them more understandable and consistent.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, ysr

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

6826318: G1: remove traversal-based refinement code
Summary: Removed traversal-based refinement code as it's no longer used. Made the concurrent refinement (queue-based) parallel.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

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

Summary: Turn off G1VerifyConcMarkPrintReachable by default to minimize the amount of verbose output we generate by default.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Summary: Introduces two flags, -XX:-/+G1EnableParallelRSetUpdating and -XX:-/+G1EnableParallelRSetScanning, to turn on/off the "band aid" fix that serializes RSet updating / scanning during GCs.
Reviewed-by: iveresov