Reviewed-by: kamg, dcubed

Summary: Make a special root-list for those few nmethods which might contain non-perm oops.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, jmasa, ysr

Reviewed-by: kamg, phh

Summary: use PcDesc to keep record of the reexecute bit instead of using DebugInfoStreams
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Summary: Remove usage of _highest_lock field in Thread so that is_lock_owned won't depend on the correct update of that field.
Reviewed-by: never, dice, acorn

Reviewed-by: xlu, coleenp, kamg, swamyv

Summary: heapOopSize symbol should be declared as constant in vmStructs and should not be looked up in readVMIntConstants().
Reviewed-by: never, swamyv, coleenp

Summary: Use zero based compressed oops if java heap is below 32gb and unscaled compressed oops if java heap is below 4gb.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jcoomes, coleenp

Summary: Add support for narrow oops in debug info to avoid decoding.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

6459804: Want client (c1) compiler for x86_64 (amd64) for faster start-up
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add mechanism to ignore unsupported flags for a set period of time
Reviewed-by: acorn, never, coleenp

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

Summary: Make FreeChunk read markword instead of LSB in _klass pointer to indicate that it's a FreeChunk for compressed oops.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

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

Summary: back out sa-related changes to 6652736, use concrete expressions for WKK names in the SA
Reviewed-by: never, sundar

Summary: Forward port of Yumin's fix for 6670684 from HSX-11; Yumin verified the port was correct.
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: combine many scalar variables into a single enum-indexed array in SystemDictionary.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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