Summary: Move the first part of the GC logging, including timestamp, to the start of the GC
Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm

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: Add the flags G1EvacuationFailureALot flag (and supporting flags) to force trigger evacuation failures. The support flags control how often to trigger an evacuation failure and during which types of evacuation pause. This functionality is analogous to that of PromotionFailureALot for the other collectors.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

7178363: G1: Remove the serial code for PrintGCDetails and make it a special case of the parallel code
Summary: Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com. Introduced the WorkerDataArray class. Fixed some minor logging bugs.
Reviewed-by: johnc, mgerdin

Summary: Correct the result value of G1CollectedHeap::pending_card_num(). Change the code that calculates the GC efficiency of a non-young heap region to use historical data from mixed GCs and the actual number of live bytes when predicting how long it would take to collect the region. Changes were also reviewed by Thomas Schatzl.
Reviewed-by: azeemj, brutisso

Summary: G1 does not appear to be immune to the issue described in CR 6948537 and increasing the size of old-generation PLABs appears to increase the liklihood of seeing the issue. Extend the fix for 6948537 to G1's BlockOffsetTable.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Employ PLABStats instances to record information about survivor and old PLABs, and use the recorded stats to adjust the sizes of survivor and old PLABS.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr
Contributed-by: NBrandon Mitchell <brandon@twitter.com>

Summary: Various cleanups as a prelude to introducing iterators for HeapRegions.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Summary: Also reviewed by: vitalyd@gmail.com. Move the timing out of G1CollectorPolicy into the G1GCPhaseTimes class
Reviewed-by: johnc

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: Remove the per-thread expansion tables (PosParPRT) and associated expansion and compaction from the fine grain RSet entries. This code has been unused for a while.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso
Contributed-by: NThomas Schatzl <thomas.schatzl@jku.at>

Summary: The scope of TraceMemoryManagerStats in G1CollectedHeap need to cover the call to G1MonitoringSupport::update_sizes()
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa

Reviewed-by: azeemj, jmasa

Summary: Simplify code, remove unused code, remove ExitAfterGCNum
Reviewed-by: huntch, johnc

Summary: Before the last thread to leave a JNI critical region was able to schedule a GCLocker Initiated GC, another thread was attempting an allocation and saw that the GCLocker region was no longer active and successfully scheduled a GC. Stall allocating threads until the GCLocker Initiated GC is performed and then retry the allocation.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, huntch

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, johnc

Summary: Rename "to-space-overflow" to "to-space-exhausted", Introduce one decimal point in the size format, Add Sum to the aggregate and re-order the entries, Add number of GC workers to the log output
Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm, jmasa

Summary: Removed the HeapRegion::_top_at_conc_mark_count field. It is no longer needed as a result of the changes for 6888336 and 7127706. Refactored the closures that finalize and verify the liveness counting data so that common functionality was placed into a base class.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp

Summary: Cleanup of the CSet chooser class: standardize on uints for region num and indexes (instead of int, jint, etc.), make the method / field naming style more consistent, remove a lot of dead code.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

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 oop_verify_old_oop and allow_dirty. Also reviewed by: alexlamsl@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

Summary: Added log levels "fine", "finer" and "finest". Let PrintGC map to "fine" and PrintGCDetails map to "finer". Separated out the per worker information in the G1 logging to the "finest" level.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jwilhelm, tonyp, johnc

Reviewed-by: tonyp, johnc

Summary: Tiered compilation has increased the number of nmethods in the code cache. This has, in turn, significantly increased the number of marked nmethods processed during the StrongRootsScope destructor. Create a specialized version of CodeBlobToOopClosure for G1 which places only those nmethods that contain pointers into the collection set on to the marked nmethods list.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Summary: Attempting to initiate a marking cycle when allocating a humongous object can, if a marking cycle is successfully initiated by another thread, result in the allocating thread spinning until the marking cycle is complete. Eliminate a deadlock between the main ConcurrentMarkThread, the SurrogateLocker thread, the VM thread, and a mutator thread waiting on the SecondaryFreeList_lock (while free regions are going to become available) by not manipulating the pending list lock during the prologue and epilogue of the cleanup pause.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jcoomes, tonyp

Summary: Revamp of the mechanism that chooses old regions for inclusion in the CSet. It simplifies the code and introduces min and max bounds on the number of old regions added to the CSet at each mixed GC to avoid pathological cases. It also ensures that when we do a mixed GC we'll always find old regions to add to the CSet (i.e., it eliminates the case where a mixed GC will collect no old regions which can happen today).
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, kevinw, brutisso, twisti, jmasa

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: If we try to schedule an initial-mark GC in order to explicit start a conc mark cycle and it gets pre-empted by antoher GC, we should retry the attempt as long as it's appropriate for the GC cause.
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

7132311: G1: assert((s == klass->oop_size(this)) || (Universe::heap()->is_gc_active() && ((is_typeArray()...
Summary: Move the check for when to call collect() to before we do a humongous object allocation
Reviewed-by: stefank, tonyp

Summary: Create a handle and fake an object to make sure that we don't loose the memory we just allocated
Reviewed-by: tonyp, stefank

Summary: During an initial mark pause, signal the Concurrent Mark thread after the pause output from PrintGC/PrintGCDetails is complete.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, brutisso

Reviewed-by: tonyp, johnc

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

Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: Store the "next chunk start index" in the length field of the to-space object, instead of the from-space object, so that we can always reliably read the size of all from-space objects.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr, jmasa

Summary: Parallelize the removal of self forwarding pointers etc. by wrapping in a HeapRegion closure, which is then wrapped inside an AbstractGangTask.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Summary: Introduce a flag that is set when a heap expansion attempt during a GC fails so that we do not consantly attempt to expand the heap when it's going to fail anyway. This not only prevents the excessive ergo output (which is generated when a region allocation fails) but also avoids excessive and ultimately unsuccessful expansion attempts.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc