Summary: Deferred card marks are now flushed during the gc prologue. Parallel[Scavege,OldGC] and SerialGC no longer defer card marks generated by COMPILER2 as a result of ReduceInitialCardMarks. For these cases, introduced a diagnostic option to defer the card marks, only for the purposes of testing and diagnostics. CMS and G1 continue to defer card marks. Potential performance concern related to single-threaded flushing of deferred card marks in the gc prologue will be addressed in the future.
Reviewed-by: never, johnc

6902115: G1:assert(ignore_max_completed||thread->is_Java_thread()||SafepointSynchronize::is_at_safepoint())
Summary: Remove invalid assert and mangle filler objects in TLABs that are being retired.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Summary: Block too small to split was not correctly putback to free lists.
Reviewed-by: ysr

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: C2 needs some additional optimizations to be able to handle MethodHandle invokes and invokedynamic instructions at the best performance.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: C2 implementation for invokedynamic support.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: EA incorrectly identifies escape state of an allocation passed as call argument.
Reviewed-by: never

6637203: Classunloading messages go to stdout rather than Xloggc file, causing hangs when stdout is closed
Summary: Decoupled TraceClassUnloading from verbose:gc, JVMTI_VERBOSE_GC and PrintGC[Details], making it settable in a manner identical to TraceClassLoading. Reverted an inadvertent change of TraceClassUnloading output in a previous changeset from gclog back to tty.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, jmasa, poonam

Summary: During the work for 6829187 we have fixed a number of basic bugs which are logically grouped with 6815692 and 6858164 but which must be reviewed and pushed separately.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: We need a way to walk chained method handles in the JVM to call the right methods and to generate required bytecode adapters for the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Zero currently won't build on zSeries or PowerPC machines with assertions turned on.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Smaller fixes to ensure that Zero still works with non-standard options.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Autonomic per-worker free block cache sizing, tunable coalition policies, fixes to per-size block statistics, retuned gain and bandwidth of some feedback loop filters to allow quicker reactivity to abrupt changes in ambient demand, and other heuristics to reduce fragmentation of the CMS old gen. Also tightened some assertions, including those related to locking.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Update the HS17 build number to 06
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Reworked the concurrent refinement: threads activation, feedback-based threshold adjustment, other miscellaneous fixes.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, tonyp

6895168: JCK api/signaturetest/sigtest.basic.html#basic test fails for jdk 5.0 with HS 16 in nightly build
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, jrose

6899467: System property java.class.version out-of-sync with VM for jdk 5.0 with HS 16 in nightly build
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, dholmes, ysr

Summary: See bugzilla issue 100097
Reviewed-by: tbell
Contributed-by: NJesse Glick <jesse.glick@sun.com>

Summary: Source changes for older compilers plus makefile changes.
Reviewed-by: xlu