Summary: Concurrent collectors should expand the perm gen without a full STW GC, but possibly by triggering a concurrent collection. Temporary band-aid for G1 where no concurrent collection is kicked off since the perm gen is not collected concurrently.
Reviewed-by: johnc

6942771: SEGV in ParScanThreadState::take_from_overflow_stack
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr, pbk

Summary: Associate number of GC workers with the workgang as opposed to the task.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Reviewed-by: jcoomes, jmasa, tonyp

6885308: The incorrect -XX:StackRedPages, -XX:StackShadowPages, -XX:StackYellowPages could cause VM crash
Summary: Test minimal stack sizes given (also fixed linux compilation error)
Reviewed-by: never, phh, coleenp

Summary: The changes introduced for 6975078 assign badHeapOopVal to the _allocation field in the ResourceObj class. In 32 bit linux builds with certain versions of gcc this assignment will be flagged as an error while compiling allocation.cpp. In 32 bit builds the constant value badHeapOopVal (which is cast to an intptr_t) is negative. The _allocation field is typed as an unsigned intptr_t and gcc catches this as an error.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, ysr, phh

Summary: GC workers now recognize an intermediate transient state of blocks which are allocated but have not yet completed initialization. blk_start() calls do not attempt to determine the size of a block in the transient state, rather waiting for the block to become initialized so that it is safe to query its size. Audited and ensured the order of initialization of object fields (klass, free bit and size) to respect block state transition protocol. Also included some new assertion checking code enabled in debug mode.
Reviewed-by: chrisphi, johnc, poonam

Summary: Shark is a JIT compiler for Zero that uses the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Pass the check in ResourceObj() if _allocation value is already set and object is allocated on stack.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, johnc

Summary: Added more checks into ResourceObj and growableArray to verify correctness of allocation type.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp, dholmes

Summary: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: phh

Summary: Shrinking of a generation and the corresponding card table was causing part of the card table to be uncommitted.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Added new product ObjectAlignmentInBytes flag to control object alignment.
Reviewed-by: twisti, ysr, iveresov

Summary: This moves the oops from Codeblob to nmethod.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: GC-locker induced concurrent full gc should be asynchronous; policy now controlled by a separate flag, which defaults to false.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: On sun4v/CMT avoid use of memset() in BOT updates so as to prevent concurrent BOT readers from seeing the phantom zeros arising from memset()'s use of BIS.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, minqi, poonam, tonyp

Summary: split MethodHandle.invoke into invokeExact and invokeGeneric; also clean up JVM-to-Java interfaces
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Use BIS instruction for allocation prefetch on Sparc
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Ensure a full GC that clears SoftReferences before throwing an out-of-memory
Reviewed-by: ysr, jcoomes

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

Summary: Implemented block-based work stealing. Moved copying during the rset scanning phase to the main copying phase. Made the size of rset table depend on the region size.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, tonyp

Summary: Fixed missing pre-barrier calls for G1, modified C1 to call pre- and correct post-barrier interfaces, deleted obsolete interface, (temporarily) disabled redundant deferred barrier in BacktraceBuilder.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, kvn, never

Summary: Interval checking is now being performed on the values passed in for these two flags. The current acceptable range for RefDiscoveryPolicy is [0..1], and for TLABWasteTargetPercent it is [1..100].
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr

Summary: Adjust assertion checking for ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrentAndUnloadsClasses as a reason for class unloading
Reviewed-by: ysr

Summary: Deferred card marks are now flushed during the gc prologue. Parallel[Scavege,OldGC] and SerialGC no longer defer card marks generated by COMPILER2 as a result of ReduceInitialCardMarks. For these cases, introduced a diagnostic option to defer the card marks, only for the purposes of testing and diagnostics. CMS and G1 continue to defer card marks. Potential performance concern related to single-threaded flushing of deferred card marks in the gc prologue will be addressed in the future.
Reviewed-by: never, johnc

6902115: G1:assert(ignore_max_completed||thread->is_Java_thread()||SafepointSynchronize::is_at_safepoint())
Summary: Remove invalid assert and mangle filler objects in TLABs that are being retired.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Summary: More informative disassembly in product mode.  Also, a more consistent CompileCommand syntax.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Autonomic per-worker free block cache sizing, tunable coalition policies, fixes to per-size block statistics, retuned gain and bandwidth of some feedback loop filters to allow quicker reactivity to abrupt changes in ambient demand, and other heuristics to reduce fragmentation of the CMS old gen. Also tightened some assertions, including those related to locking.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Source changes for older compilers plus makefile changes.
Reviewed-by: xlu

Summary: Introduced a new write_ref_array(HeapWords* start, size_t count) method that does the requisite MemRegion range calculation so (some of the) clients of the erstwhile write_ref_array(MemRegion mr) do not need to worry. This removed all external uses of array_size(), which was also simplified and made private. Asserts were added to catch other possible issues. Further, less essential, fixes stemming from this investigation are deferred to CR 6904516 (to follow shortly in hs17).
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, jmasa

Summary: ScavengeALot now causes an incremental (but possibly partially young, in the G1 sense) collection. Some such collections may be abandoned on account of MMU specs. Band-aided a native leak associated with abandoned pauses, as well as an MMU tracker overflow related to frequent scavenge events in the face of a large MMU denominator interval; the latter is protected by a product flag that defaults to false.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Allow iteration over the shared spaces when using CDS, repealing previous proscription. Deferred further required CDS-related cleanups of perm gen to CR 6897789.
Reviewed-by: phh, jmasa

Summary: Set narrow_oop_base and narrow_oop_use_implicit_null_checks in Universe::preferred_heap_base().
Reviewed-by: twisti, jcoomes

Summary: Apply modification of existing server heap size ergo to all collectors except CMS.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ysr, xlu

Summary: Removed the assert: UseSerialGC is not necessarily always set when serial gc is being used.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, jmasa, tonyp

6889757: G1: enable card mark elision for initializing writes from compiled code (ReduceInitialCardMarks)
Summary: Defer the (compiler-elided) card-mark upon a slow-path allocation until after the store  and before the next subsequent safepoint; G1 now answers yes to can_elide_tlab_write_barriers().
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kvn, never