Summary: Correct the result value of G1CollectedHeap::pending_card_num(). Change the code that calculates the GC efficiency of a non-young heap region to use historical data from mixed GCs and the actual number of live bytes when predicting how long it would take to collect the region. Changes were also reviewed by Thomas Schatzl.
Reviewed-by: azeemj, brutisso

Summary: G1 does not appear to be immune to the issue described in CR 6948537 and increasing the size of old-generation PLABs appears to increase the liklihood of seeing the issue. Extend the fix for 6948537 to G1's BlockOffsetTable.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Employ PLABStats instances to record information about survivor and old PLABs, and use the recorded stats to adjust the sizes of survivor and old PLABS.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr
Contributed-by: NBrandon Mitchell <brandon@twitter.com>

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Check kstat data for SPARC-M.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: Templates need this object if not using template parameter in call
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, dholmes

Summary: Added new FormatBufferResource class to use thread's resource area for error message buffer.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Implementation of decoder for Apple's MacOSX. The implementation is based on the patch provided by Kevin Walls.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, kevinw

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Lower compiler optimization level when compiling jvmtiClassFileReconstituter.cpp as a workaround for the solaris x86 5.10 cc bug.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: NJohn Rose &lt;john.r.rose@oracle.com&gt;, Christian Thalinger &lt;christian.thalinger@oracle.com&gt;, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

7185550: TEST: runtime/7020373/Test7020373.sh fails because there is no test/runtime/7020373/testcase.jar
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: jcoomes