Summary: For current soft-ref clearing policies, we can decide at marking time if a soft-reference will definitely not be cleared, postponing the decision of whether it will definitely be cleared to the final reference processing phase. This can be especially beneficial in the case of concurrent collectors where the marking is usually concurrent but reference processing is usually not.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: When we encounter marking stack overflow during precleaning of Reference lists, we were using the overflow list mechanism, which can cause problems on account of mutating the mark word of the header because of conflicts with mutator accesses and updates of that field. Instead we should use the usual mechanism for overflow handling in concurrent phases, namely dirtying of the card on which the overflowed object lies. Since precleaning effectively does a form of discovered list processing, albeit with discovery enabled, we needed to adjust some code to be correct in the face of interleaved processing and discovery.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, jcoomes

Summary: Remove duplicate files and add includeDB_gc_g1 file in windows Makefile
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, ysr

Summary: Fixed CMSConcMarkingTask::reset() to store the restart address upon a marking stack overflow and to use it as the base, suitably aligned, for restarting the scan in CMSConcMarkingTask::do_scan_and_mark().
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, tonyp

Summary: When an object array overflows during precleaning, we should have been marking the entire array dirty, not just its first card.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, poonam, tonyp

Summary: An expansion by 0 bytes was not anticipated when the assertion was composed.
Reviewed-by: jjh, jcoomes, apetrusenko

Summary: Maintain a high water mark for the allocations in a space and mangle only up to that high water mark.
Reviewed-by: ysr, apetrusenko

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: Make FreeChunk read markword instead of LSB in _klass pointer to indicate that it's a FreeChunk for compressed oops.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Summary: First mercurial integration of the code for the Garbage-First garbage collector.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jmasa, sgoldman, tonyp, ysr

Summary: Forward port of Yumin's fix for 6670684 from HSX-11; Yumin verified the port was correct.
Reviewed-by: dcubed

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

6539517: CR 6186200 should be extended to perm gen allocation to prevent spurious OOM's from perm gen
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

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: Reduce the amount of related code replication and improve pretty printing.
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