Summary: Use Stack<> instead of GrowableArray to keep track of preserved marks. Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jcoomes

Summary: Flags changed to be of uintx type
Reviewed-by: johnc, tamao

Summary: Skip unnecessary scanning of bitmap for unmarked humongous objects/regions.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, johnc
Contributed-by: NTao Mao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: Reuse the parallel reference processing oop closures during serial reference processing.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Set ConcGCThreads to the calculated number of marking threads.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ysr

Summary: Check that the concurrent marking worker gang exists in ConcurrentMark::print_worker_threads_on(). Changes were also reviewed by Vitaly Davidovich <vitalyd@gmail.com>.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com.
Reviewed-by: johnc, mgerdin

Summary: Changes to default and ergonomic flag values recommended by performance team. Changes were also reviewed by Monica Beckwith <monica.beckwith@oracle.com>.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, huntch

Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Summary: Reset the marking state, including the mark stack overflow flag, in the event of a marking stack overflow during serial reference processing.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Rename G1DefaultMinNewGenPercent, G1DefaultMaxNewGenPercent, and G1OldCSetRegionLiveThresholdPercent to G1NewSizePercent, G1MaxNewSizePercent, and G1MixedGCLiveThresholdPercent respectively. The previous names are no longer accepted.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr

Summary: Remove bit-rotten ValidateMarkSweep functionality and flag.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: Add flushes to G1CollectedHeap::log_gc_footer() and TraceCPUTime destructor.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, azeemj, brutisso

Summary: Add detailed error messages to assertions and guarantees in G1's block offset table.
Reviewed-by: ysr, brutisso

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp

Summary: Restore non-silent output of heap verification.
Reviewed-by: ysr, brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Missing call to MetaspaceAux::print_on() in G1CollectedHeap::print_on().
Reviewed-by: azeemj, jmasa
Contributed-by: NMikael Gerdin <mikael.gerdin@oracle.com>

Summary: Change the type of various task num fields, parameters etc to unsigned and rename them to be more consistent with the other collectors. Code changes were also reviewed by Vitaly Davidovich.
Reviewed-by: johnc
Contributed-by: NKaushik Srenevasan <kaushik@twitter.com>

Summary: Divide by zero error, if ParallelGCThreads is 0, when adjusting the PLAB size.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes

Summary: Change the flags and variables related to tenuring threshold to be unsigned
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: Set the value of MarkStackSize to a value based on the number of parallel marking threads with a reasonable minimum. Expand the marking stack if we have to restart marking due to an overflow up to a reasonable maximum. Allocate the underlying space for the marking stack from virtual memory.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: The clipping code in the routine that sets the bits for a range of cards, in the liveness accounting verification code was incorrect. It set all the bits in the card bitmap from the given starting index which would lead to spurious marking verification failures.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jwilhelm, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Removed the unused keep_alive parameter
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, kamg, coleenp

Summary: Reset the fields in ParGCAllocBuffer, that are used for accumulating values for the ResizePLAB sensors in PLABStats, to zero after flushing the values to the PLABStats fields. Flush PLABStats values only when retiring the final allocation buffers prior to disposing of a G1ParScanThreadState object, rather than when retiring every allocation buffer.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, ysr

Summary: The warnings associated with the UseMemSetInBOT flag are duplicated in CMS and G1. The separate warnings have been removed and single instance of the warning has been placed in a common location.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr

Summary: The is_zeroed parameter is no longer used and so can be removed.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa, brutisso
Contributed-by: NBrandon Mitchell <brandon@twitter.com>

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla, fparain
Contributed-by: NDmytro Sheyko <dmytro_sheyko@hotmail.com>

Summary: Move the first part of the GC logging, including timestamp, to the start of the GC
Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc, ysr
Contributed-by: NHal Mo <kungu.mjh@taobao.com>

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: Add the flags G1EvacuationFailureALot flag (and supporting flags) to force trigger evacuation failures. The support flags control how often to trigger an evacuation failure and during which types of evacuation pause. This functionality is analogous to that of PromotionFailureALot for the other collectors.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

7178363: G1: Remove the serial code for PrintGCDetails and make it a special case of the parallel code
Summary: Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com. Introduced the WorkerDataArray class. Fixed some minor logging bugs.
Reviewed-by: johnc, mgerdin

Summary: Also reviewed by: vitalyd@gmail.com. Make G1DefaultMinNewGenPercent, G1DefaultMaxNewGenPercent, G1OldCSetRegionLiveThresholdPercent and G1OldCSetRegionThresholdPercent experimental flags
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc, jmasa

Summary: Correct the result value of G1CollectedHeap::pending_card_num(). Change the code that calculates the GC efficiency of a non-young heap region to use historical data from mixed GCs and the actual number of live bytes when predicting how long it would take to collect the region. Changes were also reviewed by Thomas Schatzl.
Reviewed-by: azeemj, brutisso

Summary: G1 does not appear to be immune to the issue described in CR 6948537 and increasing the size of old-generation PLABs appears to increase the liklihood of seeing the issue. Extend the fix for 6948537 to G1's BlockOffsetTable.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Employ PLABStats instances to record information about survivor and old PLABs, and use the recorded stats to adjust the sizes of survivor and old PLABS.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr
Contributed-by: NBrandon Mitchell <brandon@twitter.com>

Summary: Various cleanups as a prelude to introducing iterators for HeapRegions.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Summary: Chain the fine grain PerRegionTables in an individual RSet together and free them in bulk using a single operation.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso
Contributed-by: NThomas Schatzl <thomas.schatzl@jku.at>