Summary: Source changes for older compilers plus makefile changes.
Reviewed-by: xlu

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: Set narrow_oop_base and narrow_oop_use_implicit_null_checks in Universe::preferred_heap_base().
Reviewed-by: twisti, jcoomes

Summary: Apply modification of existing server heap size ergo to all collectors except CMS.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ysr, xlu

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

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

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

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

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

Summary: Replace the assert with narrow_oop_shift set to 0.
Reviewed-by: never, jcoomes

Summary: In the assertion allow for collision with the guard page.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Treat ProfileData in MDO's as a source of weak, not strong, roots. Fixes the bug for stop-world collection -- the case of concurrent collection will be fixed separately.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, jmasa, kvn, never

Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Reviewed-by: jmasa, iveresov

Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Summary: Override should_remember_klasses() and remember_klass() as needed.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Correctly count full GC operations for framework collectors. Add ForceFullGCJVMTIEpilogues as a future work around if needed.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, alanb, ysr

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

Summary: Fix deoptimization code and OopMapSet::all_do() to check for oop = narrow_oop_base.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, phh, ysr, never

Summary: serialize.cpp currently uses objArrayOopDesc::base_offset_in_bytes(T_BYTE), which seems to be wrong.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn

Summary: Modifications to G1 so as to allow the use of compressed oops.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, coleenp, jmasa, kvn, never, phh, tonyp

Summary: Short-circuit gc-a-lot attempts by non-JavaThreads; SkipGCALot c'tor to elide re-entrant gc-a-lot attempts.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, jcoomes, jmasa, kamg

6826318: G1: remove traversal-based refinement code
Summary: Removed traversal-based refinement code as it's no longer used. Made the concurrent refinement (queue-based) parallel.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: initial implementation, with known omissions (x86/64, sparc, compiler optim., c-oops, C++ interp.)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, never

Summary: Add executable parameters to reserve_memory and commit_memory to reduce executable memory to only the Code Heap.
Reviewed-by: xlu, kvn, acorn

Summary: Allow Hotspot builds with latest Windows SDK 6.1 on 64bit Windows 2003
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell, jcoomes

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: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 03/09
Reviewed-by: katleman, tbell, ohair

6720334: G1: don't update RSets of collection set regions during an evacuation pause
Summary: Introduced a deferred update mechanism for delaying the rset updates during the collection pause
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, tonyp

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: I have collected some typos I have found while looking at the code.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Two assertions were incorrectly composed.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

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

Summary: The CMS concurrent precleaning and concurrent marking phases should work around classes that are undergoing redefinition.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Avoid overflow list walk in CMS & ParNew when it is unnecessary. Fix a couple of correctness issues, including a C-heap leak, in ParNew at the intersection of promotion failure, work queue overflow and object array chunking. Add stress testing option and related assertion checking.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: The CMS concurrent precleaning and concurrent marking phases should work around classes that are undergoing redefinition.
Reviewed-by: ysr, dcubed

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

Summary: remove Universe::_fillerArrayKlassObj and associated code
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp

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