Summary: move rare executed part of G1 write barrier from hot path.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: staffan.friberg@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: catch problem case, assert it matches valid input, new test
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn

Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for return values at calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8005173: assert(false) failed: DEBUG MESSAGE: exception oop must be empty (macroAssembler_x86.cpp:625)
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Increased the LRG AllStack mask size since the previous size was not big enough when compiling huge methods (60k+ nodes)
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, twisti

Summary: Ensure ensure correct initialization of compiler runtime
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Missed initialization. Thanks Coleen.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, minqi

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for arguments at calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Replace uninitialised pointer with NULL at argument.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: coleenp, bharadwaj

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes, twisti
Contributed-by: mandy.chung@oracle.com

Summary: New default methods list with inherited superinterface methods
Reviewed-by: minqi, sspitsyn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, ehelin

Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa, coleenp

Summary: Move protection domain oops from system dictionary entries into a seperate set; the system dictionary references entries in that set now. This allows fast iteration during non-classunloading garbage collection. Implementation based on initial prototype from Ioi Lam (iklam).
Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam

Summary: Fix typos and errors in descriptions of vm options in globals.hpp
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

Summary: Add a StoreLoad barrier in the G1 post-barrier to fix a race with concurrent refinement. Also-reviewed-by: martin.doerr@sap.com
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tschatzl, brutisso, roland, kvn

Reviewed-by: acorn, kvn

Reviewed-by: iveresov, roland, kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti, azeemj

Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Add a new initialization function to VirtualSpace which allows the caller to override the max commit granularity.
Reviewed-by: stefank, ehelin, tschatzl

Summary: Don't turn on transparent huge pages (-XX:+UseTransparentHugePages) unless explicitly specified on the command line. This has the effect that large pages are never turned on Linux unless the user has explicitly enabled any of the large pages flags: -XX:+UseLargePages, -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages, -XX:+UseHugeTLBFS, and -XX:+UseSHM.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, tschatzl, brutisso

Summary: Changed a few descriptions and variable names to young gen.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jcoomes

Summary: Ensure the thread is in correct state; rewrote test in Java
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Redefined class in stack trace may not be found by method_idnum so handle null.
Reviewed-by: sla, dcubed, sspitsyn

Summary: Remove unnecessary volatile keyword on stack locals within instanceKlass.cpp to work around Solaris Studio C++ compiler issue
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Use instance variables directly within the collector policy classes and remove unused setters.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jcoomes

Summary: Removed stray includes and some minor cleanup of GenerationSizer
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jcoomes

Summary: Remove a few redundant switch-statements
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, tschatzl

Summary: add replace_in_map() calls following some null checks in type checks
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Usage of u4 as a type for thread_id cause a compilation error on platform, where thread_id is a pointer
Reviewed-by: sla, sspitsyn, minqi

Summary: Couple of nits in os_bsd.cpp brake compilation of open hotspot on non-apple platforms
Reviewed-by: sla, sspitsyn