Summary: Add an internal testing API to HotSpot to enable more targeted testing of vm functionality
Reviewed-by: phh, dholmes

Summary: Safepoint in the sweeper loop in necessary
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: 7u4 new experimental flag -XX:PredictedClassLoadedCount=#
Reviewed-by: dholmes, phh, dcubed

Summary: Fix pure c2 builds
Reviewed-by: kvn, brutisso, never

Summary: Add CriticalPriority == MaxPriority+1 and enable scheduling class as well as thread priority to change on Solaris.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

Summary: Change the value of Tier3BackEdgeThreshold from 7000 to 60000
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart, kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: acorn, phh, dcubed, sspitsyn

Summary: Add Flag::external_ext()/writable_ext(), both return false.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu

Summary: Change variables representing the number of GC workers to uint from int and size_t.  Change the parameter in work(int i) to work(uint worker_id).
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp

Summary: Added support for AVX extension to the x86 instruction set.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add a file, globals_ext.hpp, containing a null interface, to be replaced by a vendor in altsrc as needed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, dholmes, johnc, jrose

Summary: Revert 7116481 to current hsx/hotspot-main
Reviewed-by: kamg

Summary: Add -XX:+UnlockCommercialVMOptions to gate use of commercial feature switches in the same way as -XX:UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions gates use of diagnostic feature switches.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, kamg

Summary: Disable PrintVMOptions by default for all builds
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, twisti

Summary: Use dead nodes elimination code in PhaseIdealLoop before executing EA.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, twisti

Summary: Disable PrintVMOptions in embedded debug builds so tests are unaffected by extra output
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp, phh, fparain, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: kvn

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>

Summary: Enable invocation events for inlinees
Reviewed-by: kvn

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, never

Summary: Use BIS and prefetch in arraycopy stubs for Sparc (BIS for T4 only).
Reviewed-by: never, iveresov

Summary: Use BIS for zeroing new allocated big (2Kb and more) objects and arrays.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, ysr

Summary: Support interleaving on NUMA systems for collectors that don't have NUMA-awareness.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, ysr
Contributed-by: NTom Deneau <tom.deneau@amd.com>

Summary: on T4 2 BIS instructions should be issued to prefetch 64 bytes
Reviewed-by: iveresov, phh, twisti

Summary: Select number of GC threads dynamically based on heap usage and number of Java threads
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Add new short branch instruction to Hotspot sparc assembler.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jrose

Summary: Use new VIS3 mov instructions on T4 for move data between general and float registers.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, jwilhelm, kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, jwilhelm, kvn

Summary: Also reviewed by mikael.gerdin@oracle.com; stdlib:qsort() does byte-by-byte swapping on Windows. This leads to pointer shearing. Fix is to implement a quicksort that does full pointer updates.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp, ysr

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, jrose

Summary: supply optinal flags to realize gc log rotation
Reviewed-by: ysr, jwilhelm

Summary: change the default setting of the flag AllowInvokeGeneric to false
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov