Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: rasbold, kvn

Reviewed-by: jmasa

Reviewed-by: jmasa

Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr

Summary: DTrace probe "contended-exit" should be fired before unparking object, or context could be lost. Probe firing was moved to proper place.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

6736295: SIGSEGV in product jvm, assertion "these are the only valid states during a mark sweep" in fastdebug
Summary: Restructured the code in the perm gen allocation retry loop so as to avoid "safepoint-blocking" on locks, in this case the Heap_lock, while holding uninitialized allocated heap storage.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jcoomes, jmasa, poonam

Summary: Make reguard_stack change access to RW, not execute and use os::protect_memory with the new parameter when change needed to X.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jcoomes

Summary: more and better #line and #define directives in the generated code; ADLC itself accepts #line directives
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Print out JDK/JRE version that hotspot knows about.
Reviewed-by: kamg, blacklion, acorn, alanb

Summary: temporarily turn off LinkWellKnownClasses optimization
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: On solaris, the inline assembly wasn't being processed.  Added volatile to il file fixed it.
Reviewed-by: phh, kvn

Summary: Update Hotspot 14 build number to b09
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Fix adds support for verifying arguments with -Xcheck:jni.
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: In os::Linux::rebuild_cpu_to_node_map() fix the size of the CPU bitmap. Fixed arithmetic in MutableNUMASpace::adaptive_chunk_size() that could cause overflows and underflows of the chunk_size variable.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

Summary: Create new "eliminated" BoxLock node for monitor debug info when corresponding locks are eliminated.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: These changes enable the SA binaries build with hotspot build on Windows
Reviewed-by: swamyv

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: oop stored in unsafely in Lscratch noticed by visual inspection will not be updated by GC.
Reviewed-by: kamg, never, kvn

6774607: SIGSEGV or (!is_null(v),"oop value can never be zero") assertion when running with CMS and COOPs
Summary: Use the more permissive set_klass_or_null() and klass_or_null() interfaces in ParNew's workqueue overflow code that manipulates the klass-word.
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: The default value of UseVMInterruptibleIO is changed to false for JDK 7, but the default isn't changed for JDK 6 and earlier.
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, dholmes, kamg, alanb

Summary: Update the Hotspot build number to 08
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Add test for biased locking epoch before walking own thread stack in case of rare race
Reviewed-by: phh, never

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