Summary: Allow Hotspot builds with latest Windows SDK 6.1 on 64bit Windows 2003
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell, jcoomes

Summary: A few small fixes to remove some inconsistencies in the concurrent mark-related verbose GC output.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified starting July 2008 to Dec 2008
Reviewed-by: katleman, ohair, tbell

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: Under certain circumstances, two cleanup threads can claim and process the same region.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr

6710665: G1: guarantee(_cm->out_of_regions() && _cm->region_stack_empty() && _task_queue->size() == 0, ...)
Summary: Remove the incorrect assumptions from guarantee()s.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: First mercurial integration of the code for the Garbage-First garbage collector.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jmasa, sgoldman, tonyp, ysr