Summary: Make a special root-list for those few nmethods which might contain non-perm oops.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, jmasa, ysr

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Summary: Short-circuit gc-a-lot attempts by non-JavaThreads; SkipGCALot c'tor to elide re-entrant gc-a-lot attempts.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, jcoomes, jmasa, kamg

Summary: Remove usage of _highest_lock field in Thread so that is_lock_owned won't depend on the correct update of that field.
Reviewed-by: never, dice, acorn

Summary: Change create_vm() to load and initialize StringValue rather than String.
Reviewed-by: kvn

6660573: G1: BigApps Failure : guarantee(satb_mq_set.completed_buffers_num() == 0,"invariant")
Summary: When exiting a mutator thread is removed from the thread list before it has a chance to flush its SATB and barrier queues. If GC happens at this moment the objects that are refererred from these queues can be moved, which will case a crash. The fix is simply to flush the buffers before removing a thread from the list.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, tonyp

6719149: Wrong "java/lang/String should not be loaded yet" assertion in fastdebug bits with UseStringCache
Summary: Assertion is invalid because java.lang.String may be initialized just before this assertion.
Reviewed-by: phh

Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed, jcoomes

Summary: Add mechanism to ignore unsupported flags for a set period of time
Reviewed-by: acorn, never, coleenp

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: Poke String.stringCacheEnabled during vm initialization
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: First mercurial integration of the code for the Garbage-First garbage collector.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jmasa, sgoldman, tonyp, ysr

Summary: Remove -XX:+CacheTimeMillis option and associated functionality
Reviewed-by: acorn, never

Summary: (for Serguei) Clean up use of No_Safepoint_Verifier in JVM TI
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Reviewed-by: sbohne, xlu