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

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso

Summary: added #includes needed for ppc64 port. Renamed _MODEL_ppc to _MODEL_ppc_32 and renamed corresponding old _ppc files to _ppc_32.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn

Summary: Missing linebreak in hotspot log.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl
Contributed-by: vladimir.kempik@oracle.com

8013057: assert(_needs_gc || SafepointSynchronize::is_at_safepoint()) failed: only read at safepoint
Summary: Detect mmap() commit failures in Linux and Solaris os::commit_memory() impls and call vm_exit_out_of_memory(). Add os::commit_memory_or_exit(). Also tidy up some NMT accounting and some mmap() return value checking.
Reviewed-by: zgu, stefank, dholmes, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>

Summary: Compare compressed oops to a compressed young gen boundary instead of uncompressing the oops before doing the young gen boundary check.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl

Summary: Combine the calls to StringTable::unlink and StringTable::oops_do in Parallel Scavenge.
Reviewed-by: pliden, coleenp

Summary: Split SystemDictionary and ClassLoaderDataGraph root processing to help load balancing.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, johnc

Summary: Rename: compute_generations_free_space() = compute_eden_space_size() + compute_old_gen_free_space(); update related logging messages
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, tschatzl, brutisso
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: Print helpful error message when VM aborts due to inability of allocating bit maps or card tables
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

8007763: Refactoring: split up compute_generation_free_space() into two functions for class PSAdaptiveSizePolicy
Summary: split up compute_generation_free_space() into two functions: compute_eden_space_size() + compute_old_gen_free_space(), each of which (if needed) can be reused without executing an overhead of the other.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

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

Reviewed-by: stefank, tschatzl

Summary: With NPG, const KlassOop klass which is in fact a definition converted to Klass* const, which is not the original intention. The right usage is converting them to const Klass*.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, hseigel

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Use GC_locker::is_active_and_needs_gc() instead of GC_locker::is_active() for providing information about the reason of heap expansion.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: Keep a counter of how many times we were stalled by the GC locker, add a diagnostic flag which sets the limit.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ehelin, johnc

Summary: Use the correct collector to retrieve accumulated gen1 trace time
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa

Reviewed-by: johnc

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Summary: Define jlong as long on all LP64 platforms and add JLONG_FORMAT macro.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, mikael, kvn

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

Reviewed-by: johnc

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

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

Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp, kvn

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