7007446: G1: expand the heap with a single step, not one region at a time
Summary: Changed G1CollectedHeap::expand() to expand the committed space by calling VirtualSpace::expand_by() once rather than for every region in the expansion amount. This allows the success or failure of the expansion to be determined before creating any heap regions. Introduced a develop flag G1ExitOnExpansionFailure (false by default) that, when true, will exit the VM if the expansion of the committed space fails. Finally G1CollectedHeap::expand() returns a status back to it's caller so that the caller knows whether to attempt the allocation.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp

Summary: The reference handler java thread and the GC could dead lock
Reviewed-by: never, johnc, jcoomes

Summary: Fix calculation of _desired, in free list statistics, which was missing an intended set of parentheses.
Reviewed-by: poonam, jmasa

Summary: There's a potential deadlock between the concurrent cleanup thread and the GC workers that are trying to allocate and waiting for more free regions to be made available.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, jcoomes

Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

Summary: A race between the concurrent cleanup thread and the VM thread while it is processing the "expanded sparse table list" causes both threads to try to free the same sparse table entry and either causes one of the threads to fail or leaves the entry in an inconsistent state. The solution is purge all entries on the expanded list that correspond go regions that are being cleaned up.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: Implement support for ParallelRefProcEnabled in the reference processing that takes place at the end of G1 concurrent marking.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: Restore use of stillborn flag
Reviewed-by: acorn, alanb

Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

Summary: Two small fixes to deal with a guarantee failure (the marking thread should join the SuspendibleThreadSet before calling a method that does pause prediction work so that said method is never called during a pause) and an assert failure (an assert is too strong).
Reviewed-by: iveresov, johnc

Summary: Currently escape analysis is turned off when EnableInvokeDynamic is true.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: This changeset removes the zero-filling thread from G1 and collapses the two free region lists we had before (the "free" and "unclean" lists) into one. The new free list uses the new heap region sets / lists abstractions that we'll ultimately use it to keep track of all regions in the heap. A heap region set was also introduced for the humongous regions. Finally, this change increases the concurrency between the thread that completes freeing regions (after a cleanup pause) and the rest of the system (before we'd have to wait for said thread to complete before allocating a new region). The changest also includes a lot of refactoring and code simplification.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, johnc

Summary: Rebuild breakpoint cache at gc_epilogue instead of during oops_do
Reviewed-by: dcubed, ysr, coleenp

Summary: The Relocator should pass a NULL methodOop when rewriting since its resource array can never contain breakpoints.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kvn, coleenp

Summary: Refine assertion to work before VMThread has started.
Reviewed-by: ysr, never, dholmes, acorn

Summary: This changeset introduces filtering of SATB buffers at the point when they are about to be enqueued. If this filtering clears enough entries on each buffer, the buffer can then be re-used and not enqueued. This cuts down the number of SATB buffers that need to be processed by the concurrent marking threads.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Summary: Check buffer size before using and use dynamic buffer sizes for subsequent calls.
Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, kvn, dcubed

Summary: Revert a (relaxed version of the) bounds-check that was incorrectly removed in the fix for 7008136.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: Pass the value of UseLargePages instead of false as the "large" parameter when reserving the G1 heap.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, johnc, phh

Summary: Change get_temp_directory() back to /tmp and %TEMP% like it always was and where the tools expect it to be.
Reviewed-by: phh, dcubed, kamg, alanb

Summary: First attempt to allocate out the current alloc region using a CAS instead of taking the Heap_lock (first level of G1's slow allocation path). Only if that fails and it's necessary to replace the current alloc region take the Heap_lock (that's the second level of G1's slow allocation path).
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso, ysr

Summary: During evacuation failure handling we refine the BOT to reflect the location of all the objects in the regions we scan. The changeset includes some minor cleanup: a) non-product print_on() method on the G1 BOT class, b) added more complete BOT verification during heap / region verification, c) slight modification to the BOT set up for humongous regions to be more consistent with the BOT set up during evac failure handling, and d) removed a couple of unused methods.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Reviewed-by: mchung, acorn

Summary: Move _lower_dimension field initialization before _higher_dimension and add storestore barrier.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, iveresov, never

Summary: Mark field volatile, use membars, and change access order to close race
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes

Summary: Reuse set_method_data_for_bcp() to setup mdp after MDO creation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Make JvmtiGCMark safe to run non-safepoint and instrument CMS
Reviewed-by: ysr, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Modify membars to match regular volatile variable handling
Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn, never

6876037: CTW fails jdk7/hotspot/src/share/vm/opto/type.cpp:2055. assert(bits,"Use TypePtr for NULL")
Summary: Add missing 0 value check in TypeRawPtr::add_offset().
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Use Atomic::load() and Atomic::store() to access a volatile long.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, jrose, dholmes, never

Summary: Codebuffer can overflow on test with large number of calls
Reviewed-by: dholmes, collins

Summary: Track allocated bytes in Thread's, update on TLAB retirement and direct allocation in Eden and tenured, add JNI methods for ThreadMXBean.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, dholmes, ysr

Summary: The recorded _sweep_limit may not necessarily remain a block boundary as the old generation expands during a concurrent cycle. Terminal actions inside the sweep closure need to be aware of this as they cross over the limit.
Reviewed-by: johnc, minqi

6583275: Hotspot crash in vm_perform_shutdown_actions due to uninitialized TLS during out of memory handling
Summary: Call get_thread_slow() in vm_perform_shutdown actions and add null check.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, jcoomes

Summary: enhance the error reporting mechanism to help user to fix the problem rather than making it look like a VM error.
Reviewed-by: kvn, kamg

Summary: Fix frame size computation
Reviewed-by: phh, kvn