Summary: Newly-created threads always had the active field of their SATB queue initialized to false, even if they were created during marking. As a result, updates from threads created during a marking cycle were never enqueued and never processed. The fix includes remaining a method from active() to is_active() for readability and naming consistency.
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc

Summary: process one item at a time from the objarray stack/queue
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, tonyp

Summary: Some code cleanups found during the JSR 292 SPARC port.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: If CM task was aborted while scanning the last object of the specified region and the size of that object is equal to bitmap's granularity then the next offset would be equal or over the region limit which is exactly what the assertion states.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Added missing counter decrement when substring search restarted.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: The logic for x86 C1 to save the SP over MH calls is pretty straight forward but SPARC handles that differently.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Add missing guard.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Passing a null pointer to an InvokeDynamic function call should lead to a NullPointerException.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: A TLAB became large enough to be considered a humongous object allowing multiple objects to be allocated in a humongous region, which violates a basic assumption about humongous regions. The changes ensure that TLABs cannot be regarded as humongous.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Summary: The fix for 6927165 increased the number of shadow pages for 32-bit platforms and this causes a problem on systems with 64kb pages.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Improve the usability of safepoint statistics data. See bug evaluation for more details.
Reviewed-by: ysr, dholmes

Summary: store jsr ret bci as intptr constant in c1 debug info
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: This implements JSR 292 support for C1 x86.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: NAndrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>

Summary: A modified MethodHandlesTest revealed two bugs on x86_64.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Use an explicit stack for object arrays and process them in chunks.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, apetrusenko

Summary: Calculation of the slicing of survivor spaces for MT was incorrect.
Reviewed-by: ysr

Summary: Move creating stack guard pages in jni attach thread before potential java call rather than after. Also cleanup stack guard pages when jni attach fails
Reviewed-by: never, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Reduce NewSize from 4m to 1m.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, jmasa

Summary: Add check for iff->outcnt() < 2.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add missing code.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: see synopsis
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa

Summary: Rename marking stack sizing flags to be common between G1 and CMS
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: replace the combination of the G1SteadyStateUsed / G1SteadyStateUsedDelta parameteres to decide the marking initiation threshold and instead use InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent.
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc

Summary: Rename G1 parameters to make them more consistent.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: There is a small typo in methodHandles_x86.cpp.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add missing handles.inline.hpp for codeCache.cpp.
Reviewed-by: never