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

6797754: G1: combined bugfix
Summary: Implemented a policy to control G1 survivor space parameters.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: The CMS concurrent precleaning and concurrent marking phases should work around classes that are undergoing redefinition.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Increased the default and maximum size of the CMS marking stack and the size of the parallel workers' work queues in 64-bit mode. The latter was accomplished by an increase in the width of the Taskqueue's Age struct and its Tag field in 64-bit mode.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp

Summary: Moved pretouching to MutableSpace. Also MutableSpace now turns on page interleaving for the region it covers.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes

Summary: Avoid overflow list walk in CMS & ParNew when it is unnecessary. Fix a couple of correctness issues, including a C-heap leak, in ParNew at the intersection of promotion failure, work queue overflow and object array chunking. Add stress testing option and related assertion checking.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Use NULL_WORD in the places where intptr_t is expected due to incompatible types between intptr_t & int32_t
Reviewed-by: phh, coleenp, never

Summary: During argument processing, add alt-rt.jar to the bootclasspath between bootclasspath/p and default elements.
Reviewed-by: xlu, coleenp

Summary: A bunch of performance optimizations to decrease GC pause times in G1.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, jmasa, iveresov

Reviewed-by: jjh, dcubed

Summary: With predefined headers off for gcc, some .inline.hpp files aren't included to make definition visible for inline functions
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, xlu

Summary: Fixed the stack misalignment when generate_native_wrapper is called.
Reviewed-by: never, kamg, kvn, phh

6791815: Fix for 6471657 can cause deadlock on non-Solaris platforms when initializing direct buffer support
Summary: Place the state transition inside the loop so that the VMThread could proceed for safepoint
Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, acorn

Summary: Fix compilation errors from latest gcc in CC_INTERP including offending missing void* cast.
Reviewed-by: xlu

Summary: The CMS concurrent precleaning and concurrent marking phases should work around classes that are undergoing redefinition.
Reviewed-by: ysr, dcubed

Reviewed-by: phh, xlu

Summary: Added safe_object_iterate() for use by JMapPerm.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: VM support for deadlock fix. Library fix in 4735126. See API proposal.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, blacklion

Summary: Fixed the wrong cast between types since more restrictions are imposed by gcc 4.3.2
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, acorn, phh, never

6787106: Hotspot 32 bit build fails on platforms having different definitions for intptr_t & int32_t
Summary: Avoid casting between int32_t and intptr_t specifically for MasmAssembler::movptr in 32 bit platforms.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: fork Hotspot 15 - redo verisoning numbers
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Using UseOSErrorReporting will provide both an hs_err file and a crash dump or debug launch and works better.
Reviewed-by: xlu, acorn, poonam

Summary: Fixes 64-bits libraries directory search paths.
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: langel@redhat.com

Summary: Replaces SharedRuntime::f2i et al with versions that should work
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com