8052172: Evacuation failure handling in G1 does not evacuate all objects if -XX:-G1DeferredRSUpdate is set
Summary: Remove -XX:-G1DeferredRSUpdate functionality as it is racy. During evacuation failure handling, threads where evacuation failure handling occurred may try to add remembered sets to regions which remembered sets are currently being scanned. The iterator to handle the remembered set scan does not support addition of entries during scan and so may skip valid references.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, brutisso, mgerdin

Summary: Replace G1CodeRootSet with a Hashtable based implementation, merge Code Root Migration phase into Code Root Scanning
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Try to reclaim humongous objects at every young collection after doing a conservative estimate of its liveness.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

Summary: Try to reclaim humongous objects at every young collection after doing a conservative estimate of its liveness.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl, ehelin
Contributed-by: tony.printezis@oracle.com, bengt.rutisson@oracle.com

Summary: Change the code cache remembered sets data structure from a GrowableArray to a chunked list of nmethods. This makes the data structure more amenable to parallelization, and decreases freeing time.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso

8027455: Improve symbol table scan times during gc pauses
Summary: Parallelize string table and symbol table scan during remark and full GC. Some additional statistics output if the experimental flag G1TraceStringSymbolTableScrubbing is set.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, brutisso

Summary: Add a list of nmethods to the RSet for a region that contain references into the region. Skip scanning the code cache during root scanning and scan the nmethod lists during RSet scanning instead.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso, mgerdin, twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Summary: In a full GC, move the verification after the GC to after RSet rebuilding. Verify RSet entries during a full GC under control of a flag.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso

Summary: Refactor G1's hot card cache and card counts table into their own files. Simplify the card counts table, including removing the encoding of the card index in each entry. The card counts table now has a 1:1 correspondence with the cards spanned by heap. Space for the card counts table is reserved from virtual memory (rather than C heap) during JVM startup and is committed/expanded when the heap is expanded. Changes were also reviewed-by Vitaly Davidovich.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc
Contributed-by: vladimir.kempik@oracle.com

Summary: Flags changed to be of uintx type
Reviewed-by: johnc, tamao

Summary: Changes to default and ergonomic flag values recommended by performance team. Changes were also reviewed by Monica Beckwith <monica.beckwith@oracle.com>.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, huntch

Summary: Rename G1DefaultMinNewGenPercent, G1DefaultMaxNewGenPercent, and G1OldCSetRegionLiveThresholdPercent to G1NewSizePercent, G1MaxNewSizePercent, and G1MixedGCLiveThresholdPercent respectively. The previous names are no longer accepted.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr

Summary: Add the flags G1EvacuationFailureALot flag (and supporting flags) to force trigger evacuation failures. The support flags control how often to trigger an evacuation failure and during which types of evacuation pause. This functionality is analogous to that of PromotionFailureALot for the other collectors.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Also reviewed by: vitalyd@gmail.com. Make G1DefaultMinNewGenPercent, G1DefaultMaxNewGenPercent, G1OldCSetRegionLiveThresholdPercent and G1OldCSetRegionThresholdPercent experimental flags
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc, jmasa

Summary: Remove the per-thread expansion tables (PosParPRT) and associated expansion and compaction from the fine grain RSet entries. This code has been unused for a while.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso
Contributed-by: NThomas Schatzl <thomas.schatzl@jku.at>

Summary: Cleanup of the CSet chooser class: standardize on uints for region num and indexes (instead of int, jint, etc.), make the method / field naming style more consistent, remove a lot of dead code.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Summary: Added log levels "fine", "finer" and "finest". Let PrintGC map to "fine" and PrintGCDetails map to "finer". Separated out the per worker information in the G1 logging to the "finest" level.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jwilhelm, tonyp, johnc

Summary: Removed lots of dead code after some recent conc mark changes.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: Make two G1 cmd line flags available in product builds: G1HeapWastePercent (previously called: G1OldReclaimableThresholdPercent) and G1MixedGCCountTarget (previous called: G1MaxMixedGCNum). Also changed the default of the former from 1% to 5% and the default for G1OldCSetRegionLiveThresholdPercent to 90%.
Reviewed-by: azeemj, jwilhelm, johnc

Summary: Revamp of the mechanism that chooses old regions for inclusion in the CSet. It simplifies the code and introduces min and max bounds on the number of old regions added to the CSet at each mixed GC to avoid pathological cases. It also ensures that when we do a mixed GC we'll always find old regions to add to the CSet (i.e., it eliminates the case where a mixed GC will collect no old regions which can happen today).
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Reviewed-by: tonyp, jmasa

Summary: Use a percentage of -Xms as min and another percentage of -Xmx as max for the young gen size
Reviewed-by: tonyp, johnc

Summary: Remove the extra guard to allow G1 to use ReduceInitialCardMarks
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp, johnc, ysr

Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr

Summary: Fixed inconsistencies and mistakes in the young list target length calculations so that a) the calculated target length is optimal (before, it was not), b) other parameters like max survivor size and max gc locker eden expansion are always consistent with the calculated target length (before, they were not always), and c) the resulting target length was always bound by desired min and max values (before, it was not).
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: Remove the macro assembler routine br_on_reg_cond() and replace the remaining calls to that routine with an equivalent.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

7081064: G1: remove develop params G1FixedSurvivorSpaceSize, G1FixedTenuringThreshold, and G1FixedEdenSize
Summary: Remove three develop parameters we don't use.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jwilhelm

Summary: Removed the possibility to turn off generational mode for G1.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr, tonyp

Summary: Major cleanup of the G1CollectorPolicy class. It removes a lot of unused fields and methods and also consolidates replicated information (mainly various ways of counting the number of CSet regions) into one copy.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

7034139: G1: assert(Thread::current()->is_ConcurrentGC_thread()) failed: only a conc GC thread can call this.
Summary: We were calling STS join and leave during a STW pause and we are not suppoesed to. I now only call those during  concurrent phase. I also added stress code in the non-product builds to force an overflows (the condition that ws uncovering the bug) to make sure it does not happen again.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Summary: It introduces non-product cmd line parameter G1DummyRegionsPerGC which indicates how many "dummy" regions to allocate at the end of each GC. This allows the G1 heap to grow artificially and makes concurrent marking cycles more frequent irrespective of what the application that is running is doing. The dummy regions will be found totally empty during cleanup so this parameter can also be used to stress the concurrent cleanup operation.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: A referent object that is only weakly reachable at the start of concurrent marking but is re-attached to the strongly reachable object graph during marking may not be marked as live. This can cause the reference object to be processed prematurely and leave dangling pointers to the referent object. Implement a read barrier for the java.lang.ref.Reference::referent field by intrinsifying the Reference.get() method, and intercepting accesses though JNI, reflection, and Unsafe, so that when a non-null referent object is read it is also logged in an SATB buffer.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, never, tonyp, dholmes

Summary: Disable reference discovery and processing during concurrent marking by disabling fix for 6994628.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: Repurpose the existing flag G1PrintRegionLivenessInfo to print out the liveness distribution across the regions in the heap at the end of marking.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, jwilhelm

Summary: Manage allocation/freeing of the card cache counts and epochs arrays directly so that an allocation failure while attempting to expand these arrays does not abort the JVM. Failure to expand these arrays is not fatal.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

7007446: G1: expand the heap with a single step, not one region at a time
Summary: Changed G1CollectedHeap::expand() to expand the committed space by calling VirtualSpace::expand_by() once rather than for every region in the expansion amount. This allows the success or failure of the expansion to be determined before creating any heap regions. Introduced a develop flag G1ExitOnExpansionFailure (false by default) that, when true, will exit the VM if the expansion of the committed space fails. Finally G1CollectedHeap::expand() returns a status back to it's caller so that the caller knows whether to attempt the allocation.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp

Summary: Implement support for ParallelRefProcEnabled in the reference processing that takes place at the end of G1 concurrent marking.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr