Summary: Add mechanism to ignore unsupported flags for a set period of time
Reviewed-by: acorn, never, coleenp

Summary: allocate alignment-sized page(s) below java heap so that memory accesses at heap_base+1page give signal and cause an implicit null check
Reviewed-by: kvn, jmasa, phh, jcoomes

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: Fixed the cast from char* to const char* and tried to use const char* as much as possible
Reviewed-by: never, kamg
Contributed-by: xiaobin.lu@sun.com

Summary: NUMA-aware allocator port to Linux
Reviewed-by: jmasa, apetrusenko

Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

Summary: Remove -XX:+CacheTimeMillis option and associated functionality
Reviewed-by: acorn, never

Reviewed-by: jmasa, sbohne, ikrylov, xlu