Summary: Refactor preparation for compaction during Full GC so that it lazily initializes the first compaction point. This also avoids problems later when the first region may not be committed. Also reviewed by K. Barrett.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Get rid of some duplicated implementations and change nonsense implementations to pure virtuals
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

Summary: Only declare the functions where they are actually needed.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, stefank

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl, stefank

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, stefank

Reviewed-by: twisti, stefank

Summary: Copyright year updated for files modified during 2013
Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

Summary: Added AIX includes alpha-sorted before BSD. Fix compilation issues with xlC in shared code. Basic shared platform dependend adaption (vm_version etc.).
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, stefank

Summary: Setting some public integer options to specific values causes crashes or undefined GC behavior. This patchset adds the necessary argument checking for these options.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

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

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>

7151532: DCmd for hotspot native memory tracking
Summary: Implementation of native memory tracking phase 1, which tracks VM native memory usage, and related DCmd
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, fparain

Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

Summary: removed oop_verify_old_oop and allow_dirty. Also reviewed by: alexlamsl@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

Summary: Fixed G1CollectedHeap::is_in, added tests, cleaned up comments and made Space::is_in pure virtual.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

Summary: Interpret MarkSweepAlwaysCompactCount < 1 as never do full compaction
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp, jmasa, johnc

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

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

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

Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Maintain a high water mark for the allocations in a space and mangle only up to that high water mark.
Reviewed-by: ysr, apetrusenko

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

Summary: Initialize the field correctly in ContiguousSpace's constructor and initialize() methods, using the latter for the survivor spaces upon initial construction or a subsequent resizing of the young generation. Add some missing Space sub-class constructors.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

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