Summary: The Solaris Studio 12 update 1 C++ compiler was incorrectly re-ordering the reads of an object's mark word in oopDesc::forward_to_atomic(). This opened a small window where one thread could execute the successful CAS path even though another thread had already successfully forwarded the object. This could result in an object being copied twice. The code in oopDesc::forward_to_atomic() was changed to read the mark word once.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Allow the eden to the expanded up to a point when the GC locker is active.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, johnc, ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Wrong assumption about expecting the current alloc region expected to be NULL in expand_and_allocate().
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr

Summary: Enable reference discovery during concurrent marking by setting the reference processor field of the concurrent marking closure. Keep reference objects on the discovered reference lists alive during incremental evacuation pauses until they are processed at the end of concurrent marking.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: This change revamps the slow allocation path of G1. Improvements include the following: a) Allocations directly to old regions are now totally banned. G1 now only allows allocations out of young regions (with the only exception being humongous regions). b) The thread that allocates a new region (which is now guaranteed to be young) does not dirty all its cards. Each thread that successfully allocates out of a young region is now responsible for dirtying the cards that corresponding to the "block" that just got allocated. c) allocate_new_tlab() and mem_allocate() are now implemented differently and TLAB allocations are only done by allocate_new_tlab(). d) If a thread schedules an evacuation pause in order to satisfy an allocation request, it will perform the allocation at the end of the safepoint so that the thread that initiated the GC also gets "first pick" of any space made available by the GC. e) If a thread is unable to allocate a humongous object it will schedule an evacuation pause in case it reclaims enough regions so that the humongous allocation can be satisfied aftewards. f) The G1 policy is more careful to set the young list target length to be the survivor number +1. g) Lots of code tidy up, removal, refactoring to make future changes easier.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Summary: 6970683 and 6953144 introduced changes that need to be implemented for Zero and Shark.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Wrong value type is used for NULL store when clearing the detail message of the preallocated exception object.
Reviewed-by: never, iveresov

Summary: Fix policy reaction to C1 comilation failures, make C1 properly report errors.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: An evacuation failure while copying the roots caused an object, A, to be forwarded to itself. During the subsequent RSet updating a reference to A was processed causing the reference to be added to the RSet of A's heap region. As a result of adding to the remembered set we ran into the issue described in 6930581 - the sparse table expanded and the RSet scanning code walked the cards in one instance of RHashTable (_cur) while the occupied() counts the cards in the expanded table (_next).
Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Summary: Weakened assert in onj_is_alive() to allow its use at initialization time when is_at_safepoint() normally reports false; added some related asserts to check order of is_init_completed() after Universe::is_fully_initialized().
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: HeapBaseMinAddress should be used only for a default heap size calculation.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, jcoomes, dholmes

Summary: Weaken assert by excluding scavenges resulting from -XX:+ScavengeALot stress-testing option.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp

Summary: fix index check
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: The plug that guards the use of compressed oops with invokedynamic needs to be removed
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

6996613: CompactibleFreeListSpace::print should call CompactibleFreeListSpace::print_on, not Space::print_on
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Do several iterations to build EA Connection Graph.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, ysr

Summary: Fix the compiler error. Allow to build just c2 specifying FORCE_TIERED=0 on the command line.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Since we are at a stop-world pause, the existing CMS-phase checks are sufficient for safety, and the locking check can be safely elided. Elaborated documentation comment to the case where class unloading and verification are disabled, and the query happens when we aren't in the sweeping phase, where the answer "false" would be (almost everywhere) too pessimistic.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, tonyp

Summary: Add missing line to vmStructs.  Also fix bug with class dumper.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Change property value to 1.<major_version> for major_version >= 7
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: Turn CDS off if compressed oops is on
Reviewed-by: ysr, kvn, jcoomes, phh

Summary: Use hardware DIV instruction for long division by constant when it is faster than code with multiply.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Allow CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic nodes to have any number of extra operands.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Small bug fix to make "raw" adapters work for JDK changes under 6981777
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Distinguish pool indexes from cache indexes in recently changed code.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Sharpened an assert, introduced in 6896603, that intended to check that the incremental_collection_failed() predicate on the heap was being reset "soon enough".
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: The logic of ClassFileParser::java_dyn_MethodHandle_fix_pre needs to take care of an already changed vmentry signature.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Update verifier to conform to spec re: reference vs. 'Object' types
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

6891959: HotSpot should not throw ClassFormatError if a class has a field with '>' and/or '<' in its name
Summary: Class file parser needs to look for and disallow '[' in names.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never

Summary: Deprecated HandlePromotionFailure, removing the ability to turn off that feature, did away with one epoch look-ahead when deciding if a scavenge is likely to fail, relying on current data.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, poonam

Summary: reduce complexity by factoring synchronizer.cpp
Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, coleenp

Summary: 6953477 broke Zero.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Closed a timing hole during which concurrent full gc requests can be missed. The hole can increase the latency of the response to a full gc request by up to the value of CMSWaitDuration. If CMSWaitDuration=0 is, as currently, interpreted as an unbounded wait, suitable in certain tuning scenarios, the application can potentially hang. Made two obscure tunables, including CMSWaitDuration, manageable.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, tonyp

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Repair stackmap table attribute when relocating bytecode
Reviewed-by: acorn, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Temporarily fix to disable compressed oops with CDS
Reviewed-by: dholmes, twisti, kvn, never

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: There is a race between the concurrent refinement threads and the humongous object allocation that can cause the concurrent refinement threads to corrupt the part of the BOT that it is being initialized by the humongous object allocation operation. The solution is to do the humongous object allocation in careful steps to ensure that the concurrent refinement threads always have a consistent view over the BOT, region contents, and top. The fix includes some very minor tidying up in sparsePRT.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, johnc, ysr