Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel, mschoene

Summary: Add a WhiteBox callback to the VM to start a concurrent mark cycle in G1.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, sjohanss
Contributed-by: NLeonid Mesnik <leonid.mesnik@oracle.com>

8061715: gc/g1/TestShrinkAuxiliaryData15.java fails with java.lang.RuntimeException: heap decommit failed - after > before
Summary: added WhiteBox methods to count regions and exact aux data sizes
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso

Reviewed-by: kvn, iignatyev

Summary: Allow use of large pages for auxiliary data structures in G1. Clean up existing interfaces.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, pliden, stefank

Summary: Unsafe is not recommended and may deprecated in future. Added a WhiteBox API to get VM page size.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ccheung, mseledtsov
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam, mseledtsov
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, coleenp

Summary: Added API to track bootclasspath modification
Reviewed-by: jiangli, dholmes, minqi

Summary: Implemented the interface in sun.misc.URLClassPath and corresponding JVM_XXX APIs
Reviewed-by: mchung, acorn, jiangli, dholmes

Summary: Extend the WhiteBox API to provide information about the size and age of objects. Further add a mechanism to trigger a young GC.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, sjohanss
Contributed-by: NLeonid Mesnik <leonid.mesnik@oracle.com>

Summary: Reserved WhiteBox.java pushed by JDK-8044140
Reviewed-by: ccheung, hseigel

Summary: Create new/modify existing tests for NMT2, which is an internal redesign to address scalability issues in the first implementation.
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, zgu
Contributed-by: NGeorge Triantafillou <george.triantafillou@oracle.com>

Summary: Enhance scalability of native memory tracking
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi, gtriantafill

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, sla

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ehelin, brutisso, coleenp, roland, iveresov
Contributed-by: stefan.karlsson@oracle.com, mikael.gerdin@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: morris, kvn

Summary: Refactored parts of whitebox.cpp to enable registration of whitebox methods defined outside this file.
Reviewed-by: mikael, ctornqvi, jmasa

Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn, iignatyev
Contributed-by: filipp.zhinkin@oracle.com

Summary: Disallow increasing native memory tracking level
Reviewed-by: hseigel, ctornqvi, gtriantafill

Summary: Three tests added: 1) test stressing VirtualSpace by resizing it constantly 2) test running unit tests in several threads 3) test checking protected area in ReservedHeapSpace class
Reviewed-by: stefank, zgu
Contributed-by: aleksey.timofeev@oracle.com

Summary: Use conservative assumptions of required alignment for the various garbage collector components into account when determining the maximum heap size that supports compressed oops. Using this conservative value avoids several circular dependencies in the calculation.
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes

Summary: Make tests query a new WhiteBox API to see if NMT detail is supported, and behave properly if it is not supported.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn

8013726: runtime/memory/ReserveMemory.java fails due to 'assert(bytes % os::vm_allocation_granularity() == 0) failed: reserve block size'
Summary: Fix regression test to work on all platforms
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, dholmes

Summary: Make processing of minimum, initial and maximum heap size more intiutive by removing previous limitations on allowed values, and make error reporting consistent. Further, fix errors in ergonomic heap sizing.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm, tamao

Summary: Reserved memory had PROT_READ+PROT_WRITE access on Linux/bsd, now changed to PROT_NONE.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ctornqvi

Reviewed-by: iris, mduigou, jjg

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Summary: Add convenience method in StringTable, add WhiteBox method and simple sanity test
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, zgu
Contributed-by: leonid.mesnik@oracle.com

Summary: Tests added for Reserve/Commit/Uncommit/Unreserve operations
Reviewed-by: zgu, mgerdin

Summary: Modify WhiteBoxAPI to use interface classes from test/testlibrary instead, add ClassFileInstaller to resolve the boot class path issue
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, dsamersoff, coleenp, kvn