Summary: Reducing the number of calls to follow_class_loader to speed up the marking phase. Also removed some unnecessary calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, mgerdin

Summary: Reduced the number of calls to follow_class_loader and instead marked and pushed the klass holder directly. Also removed unneeded calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, mgerdin, tschatzl

Summary: Minimize redundant verifications of Klasses.
Reviewed-by: hseigel, jmasa

Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

Summary: Add ClassLoaderData object for each anonymous class with metaspaces to allocate in.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, stefank

Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

8000227: [obj|type]ArrayKlass::oop_print_on prints one line to tty instead of the provided output stream
Reviewed-by: brutisso, sla, jmasa, coleenp

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

Summary: removed oop_verify_old_oop and allow_dirty. Also reviewed by: alexlamsl@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

Summary: The JVMTI ResourceExhausted events must be generated in all places where OOME is thrown
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, dcubed, dholmes, dsamersoff, jwilhelm, tonyp
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Removed.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, brutisso

Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

Summary: Move _lower_dimension field initialization before _higher_dimension and add storestore barrier.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, iveresov, never

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

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

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Use an explicit stack for object arrays and process them in chunks.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, apetrusenko

Summary: More informative disassembly in product mode.  Also, a more consistent CompileCommand syntax.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Introduced a new write_ref_array(HeapWords* start, size_t count) method that does the requisite MemRegion range calculation so (some of the) clients of the erstwhile write_ref_array(MemRegion mr) do not need to worry. This removed all external uses of array_size(), which was also simplified and made private. Asserts were added to catch other possible issues. Further, less essential, fixes stemming from this investigation are deferred to CR 6904516 (to follow shortly in hs17).
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, jmasa

Summary: Modifications to G1 so as to allow the use of compressed oops.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, coleenp, jmasa, kvn, never, phh, tonyp

Summary: call report_java_out_of_memory("Requested array size exceeds VM limit")
Reviewed-by: tbell, dholmes, alanb, ysr
Contributed-by: jeremymanson@google.com

Summary: preparatory but separable changes for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6700107: java/lang/Class/forName/TooManyDimensions.java crashes with SIGSEGV in c2 compiler with fastdebug
Summary: objArrayKlass::compute_modifier_flags was unnecessarily recursive
Reviewed-by: kamg

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

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