Summary: Introduced a new write_ref_array(HeapWords* start, size_t count) method that does the requisite MemRegion range calculation so (some of the) clients of the erstwhile write_ref_array(MemRegion mr) do not need to worry. This removed all external uses of array_size(), which was also simplified and made private. Asserts were added to catch other possible issues. Further, less essential, fixes stemming from this investigation are deferred to CR 6904516 (to follow shortly in hs17).
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, jmasa

Summary: Fixes a race on the dirty card queue completed buffer list between worker thread(s) performing a flush of a deferred store barrier (enqueueing a newly completed buffer) and worker thread(s) in the RSet updating code claiming completed buffers. Removed the routine that removes elements from the completed update buffer queue using a CAS.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: It introduces the necessary memory pools for G1.
Reviewed-by: mchung, ysr

Summary: ScavengeALot now causes an incremental (but possibly partially young, in the G1 sense) collection. Some such collections may be abandoned on account of MMU specs. Band-aided a native leak associated with abandoned pauses, as well as an MMU tracker overflow related to frequent scavenge events in the face of a large MMU denominator interval; the latter is protected by a product flag that defaults to false.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Protected stats dump with a new develop flag; other than for the dump, reconciled product and non-product behaviour in face of the error.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Added instrumentation and (temporary) assert in non-product mode; clipped the value when found out-of-bounds in product mode. Fix of original issue will follow collection of data from this instrumentation.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, tonyp

Summary: Use CollectorPolicy information instead of MaxNewSize
Reviewed-by: ysr, jcoomes

Summary: The type in the NEW_C_HEAP_ARRRY and FREE_C_HEAP_ARRAY calls in the buffer allocation code was changed from void* to char as the size argument had already been mulitipled by the byte size of an object pointer.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Allow iteration over the shared spaces when using CDS, repealing previous proscription. Deferred further required CDS-related cleanups of perm gen to CR 6897789.
Reviewed-by: phh, jmasa

Summary: Restore old behaviour wrt HeapDumpPath; first dump goes to <file>, <n>th dump goes to <file>.<n-1>, with default value of <file> the same as before.
Reviewed-by: alanb, jcoomes, tonyp

Summary: The fix addresses two memory leaks in G1 code: (1) _evac_failure_scan_stack - a resource object allocated on the C heap was not freed; (2) RSHashTable were linked into deleted list which was only cleared at full GC.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: Implement scalar replaced objects debug info dump in SA.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Fix the shadowing and incorrect macro usages
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Removed the assert: UseSerialGC is not necessarily always set when serial gc is being used.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, jmasa, tonyp

Summary: correctly raise exceptions, support safe bitwise "raw" conversions, fix bugs revealed by VerifyMethodHandles, remove dead code, improve debugging support
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

6889757: G1: enable card mark elision for initializing writes from compiled code (ReduceInitialCardMarks)
Summary: Defer the (compiler-elided) card-mark upon a slow-path allocation until after the store  and before the next subsequent safepoint; G1 now answers yes to can_elide_tlab_write_barriers().
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kvn, never

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, cfang, twisti

Summary: PhiNode::Ideal() should return TOP for Phi node with no users.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Restore the original code: uint i = _hi_degree.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com

Summary: What the title says. We don't use SIMPLE_STACK any more.
Reviewed-by: ysr

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: To break spill ties choose bound live range over unbound to free register or one with smaller cost to spill.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: See title.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ysr, jcoomes, iveresov, tonyp

Summary: change more guarantees in concurrent marking into asserts.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov

Summary: Remove incorrect guarantee.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov

Summary: When we copy objects to survivors during marking, we incorrectly set NTAMS to bottom, which causes marking to miss visiting some of those objects.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov

Summary: It tidies up the G1 heap verification a bit. In particular, when the verification is done in parallel and there is a failure, this is propagated to the top level and the heap is dumped at the end, not by every thread that encounters a failure.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa

Summary: When G1 is enabled, thread dumps are inconsistent as the info for some of the G1 threads is not formatted properly.
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc

Summary: Revamp the reachable object dump debugging facility.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, apetrusenko

Summary: the assert is incorrect and can fire incorrectly due to floating point inaccuracy.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Avoid ideal transformation ping-pong between AddPNode::Ideal() and CastX2PNode::Ideal().
Reviewed-by: cfang

Reviewed-by: never, ysr, acorn

Summary: After mechanically merging changes, some by-hand adjustments are needed.
Reviewed-by: ysr

Summary: Removed the unnecessary #ifdef's which were interfering with the build of the Zero-assembler port
Reviewed-by: ysr, jcoomes

Summary: remove over locking by VMThread on "is thread suspended?" check
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, andrew

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009 through Septermber
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Summary: Fix races in jmethodID cache and JNI itable index cache.
Reviewed-by: ikrylov, acorn