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

Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

8005396: Use ParNew with only one thread instead of DefNew as default for CMS on single CPU machines
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes

Summary: Reset the marking state, including the mark stack overflow flag, in the event of a marking stack overflow during serial reference processing.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

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

Summary: Remove bit-rotten ValidateMarkSweep functionality and flag.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: Add flushes to G1CollectedHeap::log_gc_footer() and TraceCPUTime destructor.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, azeemj, brutisso

Summary: Add detailed error messages to assertions and guarantees in G1's block offset table.
Reviewed-by: ysr, brutisso

Summary: Removed duplicate entries
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp

Summary: Pass down a closure during root scanning to keep the class of the method alive.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jcoomes

Summary: Restore non-silent output of heap verification.
Reviewed-by: ysr, brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Missing call to MetaspaceAux::print_on() in G1CollectedHeap::print_on().
Reviewed-by: azeemj, jmasa
Contributed-by: NMikael Gerdin <mikael.gerdin@oracle.com>

Summary: Change the type of various task num fields, parameters etc to unsigned and rename them to be more consistent with the other collectors. Code changes were also reviewed by Vitaly Davidovich.
Reviewed-by: johnc
Contributed-by: NKaushik Srenevasan <kaushik@twitter.com>

Reviewed-by: johnc, mgerdin, jwilhelm

Summary: Divide by zero error, if ParallelGCThreads is 0, when adjusting the PLAB size.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes

Summary: Change the flags and variables related to tenuring threshold to be unsigned
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Reviewed-by: johnc

Summary: Set the value of MarkStackSize to a value based on the number of parallel marking threads with a reasonable minimum. Expand the marking stack if we have to restart marking due to an overflow up to a reasonable maximum. Allocate the underlying space for the marking stack from virtual memory.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

Summary: The clipping code in the routine that sets the bits for a range of cards, in the liveness accounting verification code was incorrect. It set all the bits in the card bitmap from the given starting index which would lead to spurious marking verification failures.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jwilhelm, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Removed the unused keep_alive parameter
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, kamg, coleenp

Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp, kvn

Summary: Reset the fields in ParGCAllocBuffer, that are used for accumulating values for the ResizePLAB sensors in PLABStats, to zero after flushing the values to the PLABStats fields. Flush PLABStats values only when retiring the final allocation buffers prior to disposing of a G1ParScanThreadState object, rather than when retiring every allocation buffer.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, ysr

Summary: The warnings associated with the UseMemSetInBOT flag are duplicated in CMS and G1. The separate warnings have been removed and single instance of the warning has been placed in a common location.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr

Summary: The is_zeroed parameter is no longer used and so can be removed.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa, brutisso
Contributed-by: NBrandon Mitchell <brandon@twitter.com>

Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank, jprovino, ohair

Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla, fparain
Contributed-by: NDmytro Sheyko <dmytro_sheyko@hotmail.com>

Summary: Move the first part of the GC logging, including timestamp, to the start of the GC
Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc, ysr
Contributed-by: NHal Mo <kungu.mjh@taobao.com>

Summary: Simple renaming to be consistent with instanceKlass->InstanceKlass renaming
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

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

7178363: G1: Remove the serial code for PrintGCDetails and make it a special case of the parallel code
Summary: Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com. Introduced the WorkerDataArray class. Fixed some minor logging bugs.
Reviewed-by: johnc, mgerdin