Summary: Construct the relevant CMSIsAliveClosure used by CMS during parallel reference processing with the correct span. It had incorrectly been constructed with an empty span, a regression introduced in 6417901.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

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

6634032: CMS: Need CMSInitiatingPermOccupancyFraction for perm, divorcing from CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction
Summary: The option CMSInitiatingPermOccupancyFraction now controls perm triggering threshold. Even though the actual value of the threshold has not yet been changed, so there is no change in policy, we now have the infrastructure in place for dynamically deciding when to collect the perm gen, an issue that will be addressed in the near future.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Use correct allocation path in expand_and_allocate() so object's mark and p-bits are set as appropriate.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, pbk

Summary: Take lock conditionally (in asynchronous mode only) when updating the dead-object map.
Reviewed-by: jmasa