Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jwilhelm

Summary: Preventing GCs to occur before VM is completely initialized. This was previously partly done by one part of the GC locker which not was removed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, pliden

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn

Summary: memory ordering fixes in GC and other runtime code showing on PPC64.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

8005173: assert(false) failed: DEBUG MESSAGE: exception oop must be empty (macroAssembler_x86.cpp:625)
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Ensure ensure correct initialization of compiler runtime
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Enable CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS in fastdebug builds across all supported platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, dholmes, stefank, twisti, ihse, rdurbin
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: declare all user-defined operator new()s within Hotspot code with the empty throw() exception specification
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, dholmes, hseigel, dcubed, kvn, ccheung
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Added AIX includes alpha-sorted before BSD. Fix compilation issues with xlC in shared code. Basic shared platform dependend adaption (vm_version etc.).
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, stefank

Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed, dsimms

Summary: Precompute limit for stack overflow check.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, mgronlun

Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>

Summary: Remove dead code.
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp

8010151: nsk/regression/b6653214 fails "assert(snapshot != NULL) failed: Worker should not be started"
Summary: Fixed a racing condition when shutting down NMT while worker thread is being started, also fixed a few mis-declared volatile pointers.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong

7107135: Stack guard pages are no more protected after loading a shared library with executable stack
Summary: Detect the execstack attribute of the loaded library and attempt to fix the stack guard using Safepoint op.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

Summary: Pass down a closure during root scanning to keep the class of the method alive.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Enables dynamic enrollment / disenrollment from the PeriodicTasks in WatcherThread.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mgronlun

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>

7151532: DCmd for hotspot native memory tracking
Summary: Implementation of native memory tracking phase 1, which tracks VM native memory usage, and related DCmd
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, fparain

Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, dholmes

Summary: Added a nop tracing infrastructure, JFR makefile changes and other infrastructure used only by JFR.
Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: markus.gronlund@oracle.com

Summary: Integrate bsd-port/hotspot and macosx-port/hotspot changes as of 2011.09.29.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, never, phh
Contributed-by: NChristos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Kurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Alexander Strange &lt;astrange@apple.com&gt;, Mike Swingler &lt;swingler@apple.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Victor Hernandez &lt;vhernandez@apple.com&gt;, Pratik Solanki <psolanki@apple.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

6766644: Redefinition of compiled method fails with assertion "Can not load classes with the Compiler thread"
Summary: Defer posting events from the compiler thread: use service thread
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, never, dcubed

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

Summary: Mark field volatile, use membars, and change access order to close race
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes

Summary: Track allocated bytes in Thread's, update on TLAB retirement and direct allocation in Eden and tenured, add JNI methods for ThreadMXBean.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, dholmes, ysr

Summary: Enable reference discovery during concurrent marking by setting the reference processor field of the concurrent marking closure. Keep reference objects on the discovered reference lists alive during incremental evacuation pauses until they are processed at the end of concurrent marking.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

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