Summary: Call newly created CollectedHeap::dump_{pre,post}_full_gc before and after every stop-world full collection cycle on GenCollectedHeap and ParallelScavengeHeap. (Support for G1CollectedHeap forthcoming under CR 6810861.) Small modifications to existing heap dumping and class histogram implementation, especially to allow multiple on-the-fly histos/dumps by the VM thread during a single safepoint.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, alanb, mchung

Summary: Substitute a spin loop for most calls to yield() to reduce the stress on the system.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Moved pretouching to MutableSpace. Also MutableSpace now turns on page interleaving for the region it covers.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes

Summary: Added safe_object_iterate() for use by JMapPerm.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp

Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified starting July 2008 to Dec 2008
Reviewed-by: katleman, ohair, tbell

Reviewed-by: jmasa

Reviewed-by: jmasa

Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, 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

Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Update for files that have been modified starting July 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Reviewed-by: tonyp, jmasa, apetrusenko

Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Treat a chuck where the allocation has failed as fully used.
Reviewed-by: ysr

Summary: An expansion by 0 bytes was not anticipated when the assertion was composed.
Reviewed-by: jjh, jcoomes, apetrusenko

Summary: allocate alignment-sized page(s) below java heap so that memory accesses at heap_base+1page give signal and cause an implicit null check
Reviewed-by: kvn, jmasa, phh, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jmasa, apetrusenko

Summary: avoid computing the dense prefix if a space is empty
Reviewed-by: pbk, tonyp

Reviewed-by: ysr, pbk

Summary: Maintain a high water mark for the allocations in a space and mangle only up to that high water mark.
Reviewed-by: ysr, apetrusenko

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

Summary: ensure that GCTask threads release resource and handle memory
Reviewed-by: jmasa, chrisphi

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

Summary: NUMA-aware allocator port to Linux
Reviewed-by: jmasa, apetrusenko

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

6539517: CR 6186200 should be extended to perm gen allocation to prevent spurious OOM's from perm gen
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

Summary: Default values set by cms ergonomics are set with FLAG_SET_DEFAULT so down stream the values look like the default values and affect how later parameters are set.  Set these values with FLAG_SET_ERGO instead and adjust how later parameters are interpreted.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, apetrusenko, pbk, ysr

Summary: Use the same default number of GC threads as used by ParNewGC and ConcMarkSweepGC (i.e., the 5/8th rule).
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp