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

Summary: Don't move tops of the chunks in ensure_parsibility(). Handle the situation with Solaris when a machine has a locality group with no memory.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, jcoomes, ysr

Summary: Construct the relevant CMSIsAliveClosure used by CMS during parallel reference processing with the correct span. It had incorrectly been constructed with an empty span, a regression introduced in 6417901.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: NUMA-aware allocator port to Linux
Reviewed-by: jmasa, apetrusenko

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold

6539517: CR 6186200 should be extended to perm gen allocation to prevent spurious OOM's from perm gen
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

6634032: CMS: Need CMSInitiatingPermOccupancyFraction for perm, divorcing from CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction
Summary: The option CMSInitiatingPermOccupancyFraction now controls perm triggering threshold. Even though the actual value of the threshold has not yet been changed, so there is no change in policy, we now have the infrastructure in place for dynamically deciding when to collect the perm gen, an issue that will be addressed in the near future.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Default values set by cms ergonomics are set with FLAG_SET_DEFAULT so down stream the values look like the default values and affect how later parameters are set.  Set these values with FLAG_SET_ERGO instead and adjust how later parameters are interpreted.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, apetrusenko, pbk, ysr

Summary: Reduce the amount of related code replication and improve pretty printing.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Use the same default number of GC threads as used by ParNewGC and ConcMarkSweepGC (i.e., the 5/8th rule).
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Use correct allocation path in expand_and_allocate() so object's mark and p-bits are set as appropriate.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, pbk

Summary: Take lock conditionally (in asynchronous mode only) when updating the dead-object map.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: In verification take into account partial coverage of a region by a card and expansion of the card table.
Reviewed-by: ysr, apetrusenko