Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Summary: Associate number of GC workers with the workgang as opposed to the task.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Adjust assertion checking for ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrentAndUnloadsClasses as a reason for class unloading
Reviewed-by: ysr

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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

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

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

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

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: 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

Summary: When we encounter marking stack overflow during precleaning of Reference lists, we were using the overflow list mechanism, which can cause problems on account of mutating the mark word of the header because of conflicts with mutator accesses and updates of that field. Instead we should use the usual mechanism for overflow handling in concurrent phases, namely dirtying of the card on which the overflowed object lies. Since precleaning effectively does a form of discovered list processing, albeit with discovery enabled, we needed to adjust some code to be correct in the face of interleaved processing and discovery.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, jcoomes

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

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

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

Summary: Disable parallel reference processing when there are no worker threads
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, pbk, jmasa, tonyp