Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 03/09
Reviewed-by: katleman, tbell, ohair

Summary: With predefined headers off for gcc, some .inline.hpp files aren't included to make definition visible for inline functions
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, xlu

Summary: Fix adds support for verifying arguments with -Xcheck:jni.
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: For current soft-ref clearing policies, we can decide at marking time if a soft-reference will definitely not be cleared, postponing the decision of whether it will definitely be cleared to the final reference processing phase. This can be especially beneficial in the case of concurrent collectors where the marking is usually concurrent but reference processing is usually not.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

6459804: Want client (c1) compiler for x86_64 (amd64) for faster start-up
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Maintain a high water mark for the allocations in a space and mangle only up to that high water mark.
Reviewed-by: ysr, apetrusenko

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

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

6703890: Compressed Oops: add LoadNKlass node to generate narrow oops (32-bits) compare instructions
Summary: Add LoadNKlass and CMoveN nodes, use CmpN and ConN nodes to generate narrow oops compare instructions.
Reviewed-by: never, rasbold

Summary: NUMA-aware allocator port to Linux
Reviewed-by: jmasa, apetrusenko

Summary: Initial checkin of JSDT code
Reviewed-by: acorn, sbohne

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold

Summary: remove old private plugin interface, simplify, rework old plugin to use unchanged Gnu sources
Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

6539517: CR 6186200 should be extended to perm gen allocation to prevent spurious OOM's from perm gen
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Summary: Add should_not_be_cached() to markOop and methodOop and query that status inOopMapCache::lookup()
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn, jmasa

Summary: Reduce the amount of related code replication and improve pretty printing.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold