Summary: Prevent eager reclaim of objects that might be on mark stack.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Eliminate _CHECK_BOTH_FINGERS_ and simplify.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Allow G1 to decommit memory of arbitrary regions within the heap and their associated auxiliary data structures card table, BOT, hot card cache, and mark bitmaps.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso, jwilhelm

Summary: Let HeapRegionSeq manage the heap region and auxiliary data to decrease the amount of responsibilities of G1CollectedHeap, and encapsulate this work from other code.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, mgerdin, brutisso

Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

8048085: Aborting marking just before remark results in useless additional clearing of the next mark bitmap
Summary: Skip clearing the next bitmap if we just recently aborted since the full GC already clears this bitmap.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

8048085: Aborting marking just before remark results in useless additional clearing of the next mark bitmap
Summary: Skip clearing the next bitmap if we just recently aborted since the full GC already clears this bitmap.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ehelin, brutisso, coleenp, roland, iveresov
Contributed-by: stefan.karlsson@oracle.com, mikael.gerdin@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, pliden

Summary: Changes in JDK-8038423 always initialize (zero out) virtual memory used for auxiliary data structures. This causes a footprint regression for G1 in startup benchmarks. This is because they do not touch that memory at all, so the operating system does not actually commit these pages. The fix is to, if the initialization value of the data structures matches the default value of just committed memory (=0), do not do anything.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, ehelin, tschatzl

Summary: Add a list of nmethods to the RSet for a region that contain references into the region. Skip scanning the code cache during root scanning and scan the nmethod lists during RSet scanning instead.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso, mgerdin, twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Improve the output of G1PrintRegionLivenessInfo by adding a per-region remembered set size information column
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, johnc

Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Skip reference processing if the global marking stack overflows during remark. Refactor and rename set_phase(); move code that sets the concurrency level into its own routine. Do not call set_phase() from within parallel reference processing; use the concurrency level routine instead. The marking state should only set reset by CMTask[0] during the concurrent phase of the marking cycle; if an overflow occurs at any stage during the remark, the marking state will be reset after reference processing.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Summary: In CMTask::do_marking_step(), Skip offering termination and entering the first and second synchronization barriers if called from a serial context, i.e. the VM thread.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Update the task local finger to the start of the next object when marking aborts, in order to avoid the redundant scanning of all 0's when the marking task restarts, if otherwise updating to the next word. In addition, reuse the routine nextObject() in routine iterate().
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: Reuse the parallel reference processing oop closures during serial reference processing.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Check that the concurrent marking worker gang exists in ConcurrentMark::print_worker_threads_on(). Changes were also reviewed by Vitaly Davidovich <vitalyd@gmail.com>.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Reset the marking state, including the mark stack overflow flag, in the event of a marking stack overflow during serial reference processing.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Change the type of various task num fields, parameters etc to unsigned and rename them to be more consistent with the other collectors. Code changes were also reviewed by Vitaly Davidovich.
Reviewed-by: johnc
Contributed-by: NKaushik Srenevasan <kaushik@twitter.com>

Summary: Set the value of MarkStackSize to a value based on the number of parallel marking threads with a reasonable minimum. Expand the marking stack if we have to restart marking due to an overflow up to a reasonable maximum. Allocate the underlying space for the marking stack from virtual memory.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: The clipping code in the routine that sets the bits for a range of cards, in the liveness accounting verification code was incorrect. It set all the bits in the card bitmap from the given starting index which would lead to spurious marking verification failures.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jwilhelm, jmasa

7151532: DCmd for hotspot native memory tracking
Summary: Implementation of native memory tracking phase 1, which tracks VM native memory usage, and related DCmd
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, fparain

Summary: Change the type of fields / variables / etc. that represent region counts and indeces from size_t to uint.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, brutisso, jmasa, jwilhelm

Summary: Removed lots of dead code after some recent conc mark changes.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: Re-enable survivors during the initial-mark pause. Afterwards, the concurrent marking threads have to scan them and mark everything reachable from them. The next GC will have to wait for the survivors to be scanned.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: Remove the separate counting phase of concurrent marking by tracking the amount of marked bytes and the cards spanned by marked objects in marking task/worker thread local data structures, which are updated as individual objects are marked.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp

Summary: Removed references to CMS in the concurrentMark.cpp/hpp files.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, jmasa, johnc

Summary: There is a high number of mispredicted branches associated with calling BitMap::iteratate() from within CMBitMapRO::iterate(). Implement a version of CMBitMapRO::iterate() directly using inline-able routines.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Summary: This change simplifies the interaction between GC and concurrent marking. By disabling survivor spaces during the initial-mark pause we don't need to propagate marks of objects we copy during each GC (since we never need to copy an explicitly marked object).
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Summary: Running G1 with ParallelGCThreads==0 results in various crashes and asserts. Most of these are caused by unguarded references to the worker threads array or an incorrect number of active workers.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp

Summary: Change variables representing the number of GC workers to uint from int and size_t.  Change the parameter in work(int i) to work(uint worker_id).
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp

Summary: Parallelize the serial code that was used to mark objects reachable from survivor objects in the collection set. Some minor improvments in the timers used to track the freeing of the collection set along with some tweaks to PrintGCDetails.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, brutisso

Summary: G1 now uses two reference processors - one is used by concurrent marking and the other is used by STW GCs (both full and incremental evacuation pauses). In an evacuation pause, the reference processor is embedded into the closures used to scan objects. Doing so causes causes reference objects to be 'discovered' by the reference processor. At the end of the evacuation pause, these discovered reference objects are processed - preserving (and copying) referent objects (and their reachable graphs) as appropriate.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jwilhelm, brutisso, stefank, tonyp

Summary: Removed the possibility to turn off generational mode for G1.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr, tonyp