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

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

Summary: Fixed the wrong cast between types since more restrictions are imposed by gcc 4.3.2
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, acorn, phh, never

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

Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr

6774607: SIGSEGV or (!is_null(v),"oop value can never be zero") assertion when running with CMS and COOPs
Summary: Use the more permissive set_klass_or_null() and klass_or_null() interfaces in ParNew's workqueue overflow code that manipulates the klass-word.
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: low-level privileged sun.misc.Unsafe.defineAnonymousClass
Reviewed-by: kvn

6700107: java/lang/Class/forName/TooManyDimensions.java crashes with SIGSEGV in c2 compiler with fastdebug
Summary: objArrayKlass::compute_modifier_flags was unnecessarily recursive
Reviewed-by: kamg

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

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: The assertion can failure due to race conditions.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: decouple set_klass() with zeroing the gap when compressed.
Reviewed-by: kvn, ysr, jrose

Summary: Use the gap also for a narrow oop field and a boxing object value.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never

Summary: Need to subtract MaxPermSize from the total heap size when determining whether compressed oops is turned on.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes, kvn

Summary: Move os_cpu/linux_sparc from closed to open
Reviewed-by: kamg

Summary: Initial checkin of JSDT code
Reviewed-by: acorn, sbohne

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

Summary: Fix load_signature_classes to tolerate LinkageErrors
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6680665: bytecode Escape Analyzer produces incorrect escape information for methods without oop arguments
Summary: bcEscapeAnalyzer does not analyze methods with no oop arguments.
Reviewed-by: rasbold

Summary: (for Serguei) Clean up use of No_Safepoint_Verifier in JVM TI
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: Add should_not_be_cached() to markOop and methodOop and query that status inOopMapCache::lookup()
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn, jmasa

Summary: Make RedefineClasses() interoperate better with class sharing.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, jmasa

Summary: Use MDO to cache arguments escape state determined by the byte code escape analyzer.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Deoptimization code for reallocation and relocking scalar replaced objects has to be fixed.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: T_ADDRESS size is defined as 'int' size (4 bytes) but C2 use it for raw pointers and as memory type for StoreP and LoadP nodes.
Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: jcoomes