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

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

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>

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, johnc

Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, kevinw, brutisso, twisti, jmasa

Summary: Replaces calls to os::javaTimeMillis(), which does not (and cannot) guarantee monotonicity, in GC code to an equivalent expression that uses os::javaTimeNanos(). os::javaTimeNanos is guaranteed monotonically non-decreasing if the underlying platform provides a monotonic time source. Changes in OS files are to make use of the newly defined constants in globalDefinitions.hpp.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ysr

Summary: G1 now uses two reference processors - one is used by concurrent marking and the other is used by STW GCs (both full and incremental evacuation pauses). In an evacuation pause, the reference processor is embedded into the closures used to scan objects. Doing so causes causes reference objects to be 'discovered' by the reference processor. At the end of the evacuation pause, these discovered reference objects are processed - preserving (and copying) referent objects (and their reachable graphs) as appropriate.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jwilhelm, brutisso, stefank, tonyp

Summary: Remove the sentinelRef and let the last Reference in a discovered chain point back to itself.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Summary: Add a notification to the GarbageCollectorMXBeans
Reviewed-by: acorn, mchung

Summary: Use _max_num_q = max(discovery_degree, processing_degree), and let balance_queues() redistribute from discovery_degree to processing_degree of queues. This should also allow a more dynamic and flexible parallelism policy in the future.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

Summary: Rebuild breakpoint cache at gc_epilogue instead of during oops_do
Reviewed-by: dcubed, ysr, coleenp

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

6942771: SEGV in ParScanThreadState::take_from_overflow_stack
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr, pbk

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Ensure a full GC that clears SoftReferences before throwing an out-of-memory
Reviewed-by: ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Use an explicit stack for object arrays and process them in chunks.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, apetrusenko

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

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

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 03/09
Reviewed-by: katleman, tbell, ohair

Summary: Call newly created CollectedHeap::dump_{pre,post}_full_gc before and after every stop-world full collection cycle on GenCollectedHeap and ParallelScavengeHeap. (Support for G1CollectedHeap forthcoming under CR 6810861.) Small modifications to existing heap dumping and class histogram implementation, especially to allow multiple on-the-fly histos/dumps by the VM thread during a single safepoint.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, alanb, mchung

Summary: Substitute a spin loop for most calls to yield() to reduce the stress on the system.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr

Summary: Renamed Reference{Policy,Pocessor} methods from snap{,_policy}() to setup{,_policy}()
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

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: Update for files that have been modified starting July 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Reviewed-by: jmasa

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