Summary: Reduced the number of calls to follow_class_loader and instead marked and pushed the klass holder directly. Also removed unneeded calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, mgerdin, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

Summary: Remove bit-rotten ValidateMarkSweep functionality and flag.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

Summary: Remove obsolete code.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr, jcoomes

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

6942771: SEGV in ParScanThreadState::take_from_overflow_stack
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr, pbk

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

Summary: Use an explicit stack for object arrays and process them in chunks.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, apetrusenko

Reviewed-by: jmasa

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

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