Summary: Relaxed the assert by allowing NULL referents when discovery may be concurrent.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jcoomes

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

6934483: GCC 4.5 errors "suggest parentheses around something..." when compiling with -Werror and -Wall
Summary: These are minor changes fixing compile failure when -Wall -Werror flags are used under gcc 4.5.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, rasbold
Contributed-by: NPavel Tisnovsky <ptisnovs@redhat.com>

Summary: Associate number of GC workers with the workgang as opposed to the task.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

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

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: Adjust assertion checking for ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrentAndUnloadsClasses as a reason for class unloading
Reviewed-by: ysr

Summary: Renamed Reference{Policy,Pocessor} methods from snap{,_policy}() to setup{,_policy}()
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

Summary: For current soft-ref clearing policies, we can decide at marking time if a soft-reference will definitely not be cleared, postponing the decision of whether it will definitely be cleared to the final reference processing phase. This can be especially beneficial in the case of concurrent collectors where the marking is usually concurrent but reference processing is usually not.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

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

Summary: First mercurial integration of the code for the Garbage-First garbage collector.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jmasa, sgoldman, tonyp, ysr

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold