Summary: This changeset introduces filtering of SATB buffers at the point when they are about to be enqueued. If this filtering clears enough entries on each buffer, the buffer can then be re-used and not enqueued. This cuts down the number of SATB buffers that need to be processed by the concurrent marking threads.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Summary: Revert a (relaxed version of the) bounds-check that was incorrectly removed in the fix for 7008136.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: Pass the value of UseLargePages instead of false as the "large" parameter when reserving the G1 heap.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, johnc, phh

Summary: First attempt to allocate out the current alloc region using a CAS instead of taking the Heap_lock (first level of G1's slow allocation path). Only if that fails and it's necessary to replace the current alloc region take the Heap_lock (that's the second level of G1's slow allocation path).
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso, ysr

Summary: During evacuation failure handling we refine the BOT to reflect the location of all the objects in the regions we scan. The changeset includes some minor cleanup: a) non-product print_on() method on the G1 BOT class, b) added more complete BOT verification during heap / region verification, c) slight modification to the BOT set up for humongous regions to be more consistent with the BOT set up during evac failure handling, and d) removed a couple of unused methods.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Summary: Make JvmtiGCMark safe to run non-safepoint and instrument CMS
Reviewed-by: ysr, dcubed

Summary: The recorded _sweep_limit may not necessarily remain a block boundary as the old generation expands during a concurrent cycle. Terminal actions inside the sweep closure need to be aware of this as they cross over the limit.
Reviewed-by: johnc, minqi

Summary: Fire the gc-begin and gc-end probes for G1.
Reviewed-by: kamg, ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Age bits need not enter the mark-word preservation calculus; also affected, in addition to CMS, per CR synopsis above, were ParNew (but not DefNew), ParallelScavenge and G1, albeit to a lesser degree than CMS.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, johnc

Summary: Initialize the _is_alive_non_header field of G1's reference processor with an instance of the G1CMIsAliveClosure. This will stop adding reference objects with live referents to the discovered reference lists unnecessarily.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr, jwilhelm, brutisso

7000559: G1: assertion failure !outer || (full_collections_started == _full_collections_completed + 1)
Summary: The concurrent marking thread can complete its operation and increment the full GC counter during a Full GC. This causes the nesting of increments to the start and end of Full GCs that we are expecting to be wrong. the fix is for the marking thread to join the suspendible thread set before incrementing the counter so that it's blocked until the Full GC (or any other safepoint) is finished. The change also includes some minor code cleanup (I renamed a parameter).
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr

Summary: Relaxed the assert by allowing NULL referents when discovery may be concurrent.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jcoomes

7001033: assert(gch->gc_cause() == GCCause::_scavenge_alot || !gch->incremental_collection_failed())
7002546: regression on SpecJbb2005 on 7b118 comparing to 7b117 on small heaps
Summary: Relaxed assertion checking related to incremental_collection_failed flag to allow for ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent behaviour where we do not want a failing scavenge to bail to a stop-world collection. Parameterized incremental_collection_will_fail() so we can selectively use, or not use, as appropriate, the statistical prediction at specific use sites. This essentially reverts the scavenge bail-out logic to what it was prior to some recent changes that had inadvertently started using the statistical prediction which can be noisy in the presence of bursty loads. Added some associated verbose non-product debugging messages.
Reviewed-by: johnc, tonyp

Summary: Allow the eden to the expanded up to a point when the GC locker is active.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, johnc, ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Wrong assumption about expecting the current alloc region expected to be NULL in expand_and_allocate().
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr

Summary: Enable reference discovery during concurrent marking by setting the reference processor field of the concurrent marking closure. Keep reference objects on the discovered reference lists alive during incremental evacuation pauses until they are processed at the end of concurrent marking.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Added an ifndef DONT_USE_PRECOMPILED_HEADER to precompiled.hpp. Set up DONT_USE_PRECOMPILED_HEADER when compiling with Sun Studio or when the user specifies USE_PRECOMPILED_HEADER=0. Fixed broken include dependencies.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Summary: An evacuation failure while copying the roots caused an object, A, to be forwarded to itself. During the subsequent RSet updating a reference to A was processed causing the reference to be added to the RSet of A's heap region. As a result of adding to the remembered set we ran into the issue described in 6930581 - the sparse table expanded and the RSet scanning code walked the cards in one instance of RHashTable (_cur) while the occupied() counts the cards in the expanded table (_next).
Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Summary: Weakened assert in onj_is_alive() to allow its use at initialization time when is_at_safepoint() normally reports false; added some related asserts to check order of is_init_completed() after Universe::is_fully_initialized().
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

6996613: CompactibleFreeListSpace::print should call CompactibleFreeListSpace::print_on, not Space::print_on
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Since we are at a stop-world pause, the existing CMS-phase checks are sufficient for safety, and the locking check can be safely elided. Elaborated documentation comment to the case where class unloading and verification are disabled, and the query happens when we aren't in the sweeping phase, where the answer "false" would be (almost everywhere) too pessimistic.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, tonyp

Summary: Deprecated HandlePromotionFailure, removing the ability to turn off that feature, did away with one epoch look-ahead when deciding if a scavenge is likely to fail, relying on current data.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, poonam

Summary: Closed a timing hole during which concurrent full gc requests can be missed. The hole can increase the latency of the response to a full gc request by up to the value of CMSWaitDuration. If CMSWaitDuration=0 is, as currently, interpreted as an unbounded wait, suitable in certain tuning scenarios, the application can potentially hang. Made two obscure tunables, including CMSWaitDuration, manageable.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, tonyp

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, dholmes, coleenp

Summary: There is a race between the concurrent refinement threads and the humongous object allocation that can cause the concurrent refinement threads to corrupt the part of the BOT that it is being initialized by the humongous object allocation operation. The solution is to do the humongous object allocation in careful steps to ensure that the concurrent refinement threads always have a consistent view over the BOT, region contents, and top. The fix includes some very minor tidying up in sparsePRT.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, johnc, ysr

6988458: G1: assert(mr.end() <= _cm->finger()) failed: otherwise the region shouldn't be on the stack
Summary: The changes from 6941395 did not clear the CMTask::_aborted_region fields when concurrent marking aborted because of overflow. As a result, the next time around we could see a memory region whose start address was above the global finger and the assertion tripped. Moved the clearing of the aborted regions to ConcurrentMark::clear_marking_state, which is executed on all of the exit paths.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr, jmasa

Summary: The remembered set iterator for sparse tables incorrectly assumes that index 0 corresponds to the bottom of the heap, not address 0 as it is the case.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Summary: When an entry is stolen, don't push it on the task queue but process it directly.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, ysr, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Summary: Remove G1RemSet base class and StupidG1RemSet class; rename HRInto_G1RemSet to just G1RemSet.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Under certain circumstances a safepoint could happen between a JavaThread object being created and that object being added to the Java threads list. This could cause the active field of that thread's SATB queue to get out-of-sync with respect to the other Java threads. The solution is to activate the SATB queue, when necessary, before adding the thread to the Java threads list, not when the JavaThread object is created. The changeset also includes a small fix to rename the surrogate locker thread from "Surrogate Locker Thread (CMS)" to "Surrogate Locker Thread (Concurrent GC)" since it's also used in G1.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, ysr, johnc, jcoomes

Summary: Clear the concurrent marking "in progress" flag while the FullGCCount_lock is held. This avoids a race that can cause back to back System.gc() calls, when ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent is enabled, to fail to initiate a marking cycle causing the requesting thread to hang.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: Concurrent collectors should expand the perm gen without a full STW GC, but possibly by triggering a concurrent collection. Temporary band-aid for G1 where no concurrent collection is kicked off since the perm gen is not collected concurrently.
Reviewed-by: johnc

6692906: CMS: parallel concurrent marking may be prone to hanging or stalling mutators for periods of time
Summary: Inserted missing yield(check)s in closures used during the work-stealing phase of parallel concurrent marking, a missing synchronous yield-request in the cms perm gen allocation path, and a terminator-terminator for the offer_termination invocation that monitors the yield status of the concurrent marking task. Elaborated some documentation comments and made some task queue termination loop flags configurable at start-up to aid debugging in the field.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, poonam

6942771: SEGV in ParScanThreadState::take_from_overflow_stack
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr, pbk

Summary: Re-enable use of the lock-free versions of region stack push() and pop() by recording aborted regions in a thread-local structure, which are then processed when scanning of the region stack restarts. The previous locking versions of these routines are retained for diagnostic purposes.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: Pass correct value for length to NumberSeq constructor. Guard dereferences of "body_summary" pointer with a NULL check.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: Fixed comment/documentation typos; converted some guarantee()s to assert()s.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Associate number of GC workers with the workgang as opposed to the task.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr