Summary: Check clean words instead of clean bytes
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, jmasa, jwilhelm, ysr
Contributed-by: alexey.ragozin@gmail.com

7109878: The instanceKlass EnclosingMethhod attribute fields can be folded into the _inner_class field.
Summary: Fold instanceKlass::_enclosing_method_class_index and instanceKlass::_enclosing_method_method_index into the instanceKlass::_inner_classes array.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: resize covered region only after successfully mapping shared archive
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr
Contributed-by: dean.long@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, dholmes

Summary: Replace calls to os::javaTimeMillis() that are used to update the milliseconds since the last GC to an equivalent that uses a monotonically non-decreasing time source.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Summary: Replaces calls to os::javaTimeMillis(), which does not (and cannot) guarantee monotonicity, in GC code to an equivalent expression that uses os::javaTimeNanos(). os::javaTimeNanos is guaranteed monotonically non-decreasing if the underlying platform provides a monotonic time source. Changes in OS files are to make use of the newly defined constants in globalDefinitions.hpp.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ysr

Summary: Change variables representing the number of GC workers to uint from int and size_t.  Change the parameter in work(int i) to work(uint worker_id).
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp

Summary: Fixed G1CollectedHeap::is_in, added tests, cleaned up comments and made Space::is_in pure virtual.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp, jcoomes

Summary: Change instanceKlass::_init_state field to u1 type.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, coleenp, dholmes, phh, never
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Summary: Remove dead code.
Reviewed-by: stefank, ysr

Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso, poonam

Summary: Add a new, separate, pointer to the base of the array of discovered reference lists and use this new pointer in places where we iterate over the entire array.
Reviewed-by: ysr, brutisso

Summary: Removed unused fields and methods, removed the G1CollectoryPolicy_BestRegionsFirst class and folded its functionality into the G1CollectorPolicy class.
Reviewed-by: ysr, brutisso, jcoomes

Summary: There is a race between one thread successfully forwarding and copying the klass mirror for the SoftReference class (including the static master clock) and another thread attempting to use the master clock while attempting to discover a soft reference object. Maintain a shadow copy of the soft reference master clock and use the shadow during reference discovery and reference processing.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, brutisso, ysr

Summary: Don't zero new typeArray during runtime call if the allocation is followed by arraycopy into it.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

Summary: G1 now uses two reference processors - one is used by concurrent marking and the other is used by STW GCs (both full and incremental evacuation pauses). In an evacuation pause, the reference processor is embedded into the closures used to scan objects. Doing so causes causes reference objects to be 'discovered' by the reference processor. At the end of the evacuation pause, these discovered reference objects are processed - preserving (and copying) referent objects (and their reachable graphs) as appropriate.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jwilhelm, brutisso, stefank, tonyp

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: If and when the reference handler thread is able to use the discovered field to link reference objects in its pending list, so will GC. In that case, GC will scan through this field once a reference object has been placed on the pending list, but not scan that field before that stage, as the field is used by the concurrent GC thread to link discovered objects. When ReferenceHandleR thread does not use the discovered field for the purpose of linking the elements in the pending list, as would be the case in older JDKs, the JVM will fall back to the old behaviour of using the next field for that purpose.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, mchung, stefank

Summary: Remove the sentinelRef and let the last Reference in a discovered chain point back to itself.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: on T4 2 BIS instructions should be issued to prefetch 64 bytes
Reviewed-by: iveresov, phh, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

Summary: Select number of GC threads dynamically based on heap usage and number of Java threads
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Interpret MarkSweepAlwaysCompactCount < 1 as never do full compaction
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp, jmasa, johnc

Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, jwilhelm, kvn

Summary: Remove two unused parameters from the mem_allocate() method and update its uses accordingly.
Reviewed-by: stefank, johnc

Summary: Perform a heap verification after the first phase of G1's full GC using objects' mark words to determine liveness. The third parameter of the heap verification routines, which was used in G1 to determine which marking bitmap to use in liveness calculations, has been changed from a boolean to an enum with values defined for using the mark word, and the 'prev' and 'next' bitmaps.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: Do a one-step look-ahead, when sweeping free or garbage blocks, to avoid overstepping sweep limit, which may become a non-block-boundary because of a heap expansion delta coalescing with a previously co-terminal free block.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp

Summary: Add a notification to the GarbageCollectorMXBeans
Reviewed-by: acorn, mchung

Summary: Fixed assertion checking code that was attempting to translate addresses past end of space for card-table slot. Also elaborated some assertion checking messages.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, jmasa, tonyp

6883834: ParNew: assert(!_g->to()->is_in_reserved(obj),"Scanning field twice?") with LargeObjects tests
Summary: Fixed process_chunk_boundaries(), used for parallel card scanning when using ParNew/CMS, so as to prevent double-scanning, or worse, non-scanning of imprecisely marked objects exceeding parallel chunk size. Made some sizing parameters for parallel card scanning diagnostic, disabled ParallelGCRetainPLAB, and elaborated and clarified some comments.
Reviewed-by: stefank, johnc

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn, never

Summary: Implement a more accurate is_scavengable()
Reviewed-by: stefank, jcoomes, ysr

Summary: BlockOffsetArrayUseUnallocatedBlock was intended to be turned off as part of BUG 6948538 but a code line in collectorPolicy.cpp actually kept it turned on.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, ysr

7035144: G1: nightly failure: Non-dirty cards in region that should be dirty (failures still exist...)
Summary: We should only undirty cards after we decide that they are not on a young region, not before. The fix also includes improvements to the verify_dirty_region() method which print out which cards were not found dirty.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso