Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa

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: Allow G1 to decommit memory of arbitrary regions within the heap and their associated auxiliary data structures card table, BOT, hot card cache, and mark bitmaps.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso, jwilhelm

Summary: Let HeapRegionSeq manage the heap region and auxiliary data to decrease the amount of responsibilities of G1CollectedHeap, and encapsulate this work from other code.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, mgerdin, brutisso

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Summary: Remove dead code.
Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso

Summary: Remove dead code.
Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso

Summary: Eager reclaim also needs to clear marks of eagerly reclaimed regions if they have already been marked during concurrent mark.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Eager reclaim also needs to clear marks of eagerly reclaimed regions if they have already been marked during concurrent mark.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Try to reclaim humongous objects at every young collection after doing a conservative estimate of its liveness.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

Summary: Try to reclaim humongous objects at every young collection after doing a conservative estimate of its liveness.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

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

Summary: Added -XX:+/-ClassUnloadingWithConcurrentMark
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso

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

Summary: Rename save_marks to record_top_and_timestamp and remove som unused but related methods
Reviewed-by: stefank, ehelin

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl, ehelin
Contributed-by: tony.printezis@oracle.com, bengt.rutisson@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: sjohanss, jmasa

Summary: Fill the last card that has been allocated into with a dummy object
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, mgerdin, jmasa

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso

Summary: After JDK-8035400 there were several opportunities to fix the visibility of several members of the G1ParScanThreadState class.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

Summary: Extract the G1ParScanThreadState class from G1CollectedHeap.?pp into its own files.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

Summary: Card re-dirtying code for verification and actual redirtying uses two different, almost completely identical card closures. Also the verification code still assumes a perm gen.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Parallelize card redirtying to decrease the time it takes.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: G1 does not retire allocation buffers after reference processing work when -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled is enabled. This causes wrong calculation of PLAB sizes, as the amount of space wasted is not updated correctly.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Instead of using a manually managed array for the in_cset_fast_test array, use a G1BiasedArray instance.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: brutisso, sjohanss

Summary: Removed all write barriers during reference processing and added explicit write barriers when iterating through the discovered list.
Reviewed-by: pliden, jmasa, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: twisti, stefank

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

Summary: Only prune metaspace virtual spaces at safepoint so walking them is safe outside a safepoint.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, mgronlun, hseigel, stefank

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, stefank, twisti

Summary: temporarily disable the shutdown of the concurrent GC threads introduced in JDK-8037112
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl, jmasa

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ehelin

Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, ehelin, tschatzl