Summary: GC workers now recognize an intermediate transient state of blocks which are allocated but have not yet completed initialization. blk_start() calls do not attempt to determine the size of a block in the transient state, rather waiting for the block to become initialized so that it is safe to query its size. Audited and ensured the order of initialization of object fields (klass, free bit and size) to respect block state transition protocol. Also included some new assertion checking code enabled in debug mode.
Reviewed-by: chrisphi, johnc, poonam

Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Recompile without subsuming loads if RA try to clone a node with anti_dependence.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Shark is a JIT compiler for Zero that uses the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: This CR implements the same for C1 as 6926782 for C2.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Print a more detailed error message for agent library load failure.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, never, ohair, coleenp
Contributed-by: jeremymanson@google.com

6973570: OrderAccess::storestore() scales poorly on multi-socket x64 and sparc: cache-line ping-ponging
Summary: volatile store to static variable removed in favour of a volatile store to stack to avoid excessive cache coherency traffic; verified that the volatile store is not elided by any of our current compilers.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dice, jcoomes, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: ysr

Summary: Pass the check in ResourceObj() if _allocation value is already set and object is allocated on stack.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, johnc

Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: Tell C++ to not inline so much by using flag -xspace.
Reviewed-by: ysr

6930581: G1: assert(ParallelGCThreads > 1 || n_yielded() == _hrrs->occupied(),"Should have yielded all the ..
Summary: During RSet updating, when ParallelGCThreads is zero, references that point into the collection set are added directly the referenced region's RSet. This can cause the sparse table in the RSet to expand. RSet scanning and the "occupied" routine will then operate on different instances of the sparse table causing the assert to trip. This may also cause some cards added post expansion to be missed during RSet scanning. When ParallelGCThreads is non-zero such references are recorded on the "references to be scanned" queue and the card containing the reference is recorded in a dirty card queue for use in the event of an evacuation failure. Employ the parallel code in the serial case to avoid expanding the RSets of regions in the collection set.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, ysr, tonyp

Summary: Add address table size to constant section size.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: As part of 6944166 we disabled the concept of abandoned pauses (i.e., if the collection set is empty, we would still try to do a pause even if it is to update the RSets and scan the roots). This changeset removes the code and structures associated with abandoned pauses.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, johnc

Summary: Added more checks into ResourceObj and growableArray to verify correctness of allocation type.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp, dholmes

Summary: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

Summary: set Z = 0 (not equal) before repne_scan() to indicate that class was not found when RCX == 0.
Reviewed-by: never, phh

6958465: Sparc aten build24.0: openjdk-7.ea-b96 failed Error: Formal argument ... requires an lvalue
Summary: Fix compilation errors.  Made non-const references const so can be assigned with lvalue.
Reviewed-by: phh, xlu

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes

Summary: Add missing is_static guard.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Remove the breadth-first copying order from ParallelScavenge and use depth-first by default.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, ysr, johnc

Summary: The per-worker _new_refs array is used to hold references that point into the collection set. It is populated during RSet updating and subsequently processed. In the event of an evacuation failure it processed again to recreate the RSets of regions in the collection set. Remove the per-worker _new_refs array by processing the references directly. Use a DirtyCardQueue to hold the cards containing the references so that the RSets of regions in the collection set can be recreated when handling an evacuation failure.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, jmasa, tonyp

Summary: Management code enabled for use by a concurrent collector.
Reviewed-by: mchung, ysr

Summary: Check if klassOop != NULL rather than klass_part != NULL
Reviewed-by: kamg, never

Summary: During concurrent refinment, filter cards in young regions after it has been determined that the region has been allocated from and the young type of the region has been set.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp, jcoomes