Reviewed-by: pliden, jmasa

Summary: Extend the WhiteBox API to provide information about the size and age of objects. Further add a mechanism to trigger a young GC.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, sjohanss
Contributed-by: NLeonid Mesnik <leonid.mesnik@oracle.com>

Summary: Refactor preparation for compaction during Full GC so that it lazily initializes the first compaction point. This also avoids problems later when the first region may not be committed. Also reviewed by K. Barrett.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Refactor preparation for compaction during Full GC so that it lazily initializes the first compaction point. This also avoids problems later when the first region may not be committed. Also reviewed by K. Barrett.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ehelin, brutisso, coleenp, roland, iveresov
Contributed-by: stefan.karlsson@oracle.com, mikael.gerdin@oracle.com

8043029: Change 8037816 breaks HS build with older GCC versions which don't support diagnostic pragmas
8043164: Format warning in traceStream.hpp
Summary: Backport of main fix + two corrections, enables clang compilation, turns on format attributes, corrects/mutes warnings
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, iveresov, twisti

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, stefank

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, mgerdin, jmasa

Reviewed-by: jmasa, coleenp

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, stefank, jmasa

Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, ehelin, tschatzl

Summary: Refactor the strong root processing to avoid using a boolean in addition to the ScanOption enum.
Reviewed-by: stefank, tschatzl, ehelin, jmasa

7057939: jmap shows MaxNewSize=4GB when Java is using parallel collector
Summary: Major cleanup of the collectorpolicy classes
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jcoomes

Summary: Cleanup related to the NewSize and MaxNewSize bugs
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jcoomes, ehelin

Summary: Replace the broken large pages implementation on Linux. New flag: -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages - Linux specific flag to turn on transparent huge page hinting with madvise(..., MAP_HUGETLB). Changed behavior: -XX:+UseLargePages - tries to use -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages before trying other large pages implementations (on Linux). Changed behavior: -XX:+UseHugeTLBFS - Use upfront allocation of Large Pages instead of using the broken implementation to dynamically committing large pages. Changed behavior: -XX:LargePageSizeInBytes - Turned off the ability to use this flag on Linux and provides warning to user if set to a value different than the OS chosen large page size. Changed behavior: Setting no large page size - Now defaults to use -XX:UseTransparentHugePages if the OS supports it. Previously, -XX:+UseHugeTLBFS was chosen if the OS was configured to use large pages.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, dcubed, brutisso

Reviewed-by: jmasa, ehelin

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, hseigel, jmasa, ctornqvi

Summary: Remove -Xaprof and Klass::_alloc_count & ArrayKlass::_alloc_size.
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

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: Move date stamp logic into GCTraceTime
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

8005602: NPG: classunloading does not happen while CMS GC with -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled is used
Summary: Call purge() on CLDG after sweep(), reorder purge() call in GenCollectedHeap
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Summary: Perform verification during VM startup under control of new flag and within a VMOperation.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, brutisso

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

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

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>

Summary: Simplify code, remove unused code, remove ExitAfterGCNum
Reviewed-by: huntch, johnc

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, johnc

Summary: removed oop_verify_old_oop and allow_dirty. Also reviewed by: alexlamsl@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

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: 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: Fixed G1CollectedHeap::is_in, added tests, cleaned up comments and made Space::is_in pure virtual.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso, poonam

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, jwilhelm, kvn