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

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

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

Summary: Change CollectionSetChooser::printSortedHeapRegions to handle null entries in _markedRegions growable array.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp, iveresov

Summary: G1 reports committed memory instead of reserved memory from the Runtime.maxMemory() method
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Summary: Fixes a race on the dirty card queue completed buffer list between worker thread(s) performing a flush of a deferred store barrier (enqueueing a newly completed buffer) and worker thread(s) in the RSet updating code claiming completed buffers. Removed the routine that removes elements from the completed update buffer queue using a CAS.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: It introduces the necessary memory pools for G1.
Reviewed-by: mchung, ysr

Summary: ScavengeALot now causes an incremental (but possibly partially young, in the G1 sense) collection. Some such collections may be abandoned on account of MMU specs. Band-aided a native leak associated with abandoned pauses, as well as an MMU tracker overflow related to frequent scavenge events in the face of a large MMU denominator interval; the latter is protected by a product flag that defaults to false.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Protected stats dump with a new develop flag; other than for the dump, reconciled product and non-product behaviour in face of the error.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Added instrumentation and (temporary) assert in non-product mode; clipped the value when found out-of-bounds in product mode. Fix of original issue will follow collection of data from this instrumentation.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, tonyp

Summary: Use CollectorPolicy information instead of MaxNewSize
Reviewed-by: ysr, jcoomes

Summary: The type in the NEW_C_HEAP_ARRRY and FREE_C_HEAP_ARRAY calls in the buffer allocation code was changed from void* to char as the size argument had already been mulitipled by the byte size of an object pointer.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Apply modification of existing server heap size ergo to all collectors except CMS.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ysr, xlu

Summary: The fix addresses two memory leaks in G1 code: (1) _evac_failure_scan_stack - a resource object allocated on the C heap was not freed; (2) RSHashTable were linked into deleted list which was only cleared at full GC.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

6889757: G1: enable card mark elision for initializing writes from compiled code (ReduceInitialCardMarks)
Summary: Defer the (compiler-elided) card-mark upon a slow-path allocation until after the store  and before the next subsequent safepoint; G1 now answers yes to can_elide_tlab_write_barriers().
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kvn, never

Summary: change more guarantees in concurrent marking into asserts.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov

Summary: Remove incorrect guarantee.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov

Summary: When we copy objects to survivors during marking, we incorrectly set NTAMS to bottom, which causes marking to miss visiting some of those objects.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov

Summary: It tidies up the G1 heap verification a bit. In particular, when the verification is done in parallel and there is a failure, this is propagated to the top level and the heap is dumped at the end, not by every thread that encounters a failure.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa

Summary: When G1 is enabled, thread dumps are inconsistent as the info for some of the G1 threads is not formatted properly.
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc

Summary: Revamp the reachable object dump debugging facility.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, apetrusenko

Summary: the assert is incorrect and can fire incorrectly due to floating point inaccuracy.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr, jcoomes

Summary: After mechanically merging changes, some by-hand adjustments are needed.
Reviewed-by: ysr

Summary: Removed the unnecessary #ifdef's which were interfering with the build of the Zero-assembler port
Reviewed-by: ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009 through Septermber
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Summary: Make a special root-list for those few nmethods which might contain non-perm oops.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, jmasa, ysr

Summary: Druing heap shrinking, check for emptiness of a region before modifying its ZF status.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Reviewed-by: jcoomes, tonyp

Summary: The first worker thread is delayed when entering the GC because it clears the card count table that is used in identifying hot cards. Replace the card count table with a dynamically sized evicting hash table that includes an epoch based counter.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Summary: Have the GC worker threads clear the hot card cache in parallel by having each worker thread claim a chunk of the card cache and process the cards in that chunk. The size of the chunks that each thread will claim is determined at VM initialization from the size of the card cache and the number of worker threads.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp

Summary: Instead of the region size being hard-coded, allow the user to set it.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, apetrusenko

Summary: Treat ProfileData in MDO's as a source of weak, not strong, roots. Fixes the bug for stop-world collection -- the case of concurrent collection will be fixed separately.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, jmasa, kvn, never

Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Summary: Override should_remember_klasses() and remember_klass() as needed.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Removing the concurrent overhead tracker from G1, along with the GC overhead reporter and the G1AccountConcurrentOverhead (both of which rely on the the concurrent overhead tracker).
Reviewed-by: iveresov, johnc

Summary: It adds parameter -XX:+G1SummarizeRSetStatsPeriod that causes update buffer processing information to be printed periodically. It also includes two small formatting changes.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes, ysr

Summary: renaming a couple of update buffer-related parameters to make them more understandable and consistent.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, ysr

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair