Summary: The fix avoids a call to address_for_index() in this particular situation where it is not known if the passed index is in bounds.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Temporarily switch off the precleaning of Reference lists completely until related issues are fixed in 6722113.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, poonam, tonyp

Summary: Removing two buggy methods that should not be used, but ended up being used due to a re-organization in the class hierarchy.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ysr, kamg, coleenp

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: java.version added to property_counters_ss array
Reviewed-by: swamyv

Summary: Workaround for CompOops bug
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Switch off executing Escape Analysis by default for now
Reviewed-by: rasbold

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

Summary: add safepoint before popping expression stack, not after
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Escape Analysis fixes.
Reviewed-by: never, rasbold

Summary: Add mechanism to ignore unsupported flags for a set period of time
Reviewed-by: acorn, never, coleenp

Summary: partial peeling shouldn't place clones into loop
Reviewed-by: kvn

6712835: Server compiler fails with assertion (loop_count < K,"infinite loop in PhaseIterGVN::transform")
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: make do_ifnull() handling similar to do_if()
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: allocate alignment-sized page(s) below java heap so that memory accesses at heap_base+1page give signal and cause an implicit null check
Reviewed-by: kvn, jmasa, phh, jcoomes

6723229: NUMA allocator: assert(lgrp_num > 0, "There should be at least one locality group")
Summary: The fix takes care of the assertion triggered during TLAB resizing after reconfiguration. Also it now handles a defect in the topology graph, in which a single leaf node doesn't have memory.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Add missing _instance_id settings and other EA fixes.
Reviewed-by: rasbold

Summary: Remove call to repush_if_args()
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: jmasa, apetrusenko

Summary: avoid computing the dense prefix if a space is empty
Reviewed-by: pbk, tonyp

Reviewed-by: ysr, pbk

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: switch on EA by default, optimize Connection Graph construction
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

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

Summary: Fixed linux make file and couple adlc code to meet the changes of gcc 4.3
Reviewed-by: kamg, igor

Summary: Set instance_id to InstanceBot for InstPtr->meet(AryPtr) when types are not related.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Remove DecodeNNode::decode() and EncodePNode::encode() methods.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: For small (1-3 bits) left long shifts in 32-bits VM use sets of add+addc instructions instead of shld+shl on new AMD cpus.
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@amd.com

Summary: This fix enables the generation of core file when process runs out of C-heap.
Reviewed-by: sbohne

Summary: verify the adr_type of a mach node was not changed
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

6714694: assertion in 64bit server vm (store->find_edge(load) != -1,"missing precedence edge") with COOPs
Summary: The method raise_LCA_above_marks() terminates LCA search early.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: ensure that GCTask threads release resource and handle memory
Reviewed-by: jmasa, chrisphi

Summary: adds JVM_FindClassFromBootLoader entry point, for jdk's use
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: Add missed checks for TOP and missed checks for non-dominating cases
Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose, never

Summary: Poke String.stringCacheEnabled during vm initialization
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Expand cardtable without committing over existing regions.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

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: The fix takes care of three issues that can create a hole less a minimal object in the lgrp chunk
Reviewed-by: ysr, apetrusenko