Summary: Define HOTSPOT_LIB_ARCH in the preprocessor flags of the generated projects
Reviewed-by: kamg, xlu

Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: replaced localtime() with localtime_r() on Solaris and Linux.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, dholmes, jmasa

6802413: G1: G1FixedSurvivorSpaceSize should be converted into regions in calculate_survivors_policy()
Reviewed-by: tonyp, jmasa

Summary: Substitute a spin loop for most calls to yield() to reduce the stress on the system.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

6797754: G1: combined bugfix
Summary: Implemented a policy to control G1 survivor space parameters.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: tbell

Summary: The CMS concurrent precleaning and concurrent marking phases should work around classes that are undergoing redefinition.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Increased the default and maximum size of the CMS marking stack and the size of the parallel workers' work queues in 64-bit mode. The latter was accomplished by an increase in the width of the Taskqueue's Age struct and its Tag field in 64-bit mode.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp

Summary: Moved pretouching to MutableSpace. Also MutableSpace now turns on page interleaving for the region it covers.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes

Summary: Avoid overflow list walk in CMS & ParNew when it is unnecessary. Fix a couple of correctness issues, including a C-heap leak, in ParNew at the intersection of promotion failure, work queue overflow and object array chunking. Add stress testing option and related assertion checking.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Use NULL_WORD in the places where intptr_t is expected due to incompatible types between intptr_t & int32_t
Reviewed-by: phh, coleenp, never

Summary: During argument processing, add alt-rt.jar to the bootclasspath between bootclasspath/p and default elements.
Reviewed-by: xlu, coleenp

Summary: A bunch of performance optimizations to decrease GC pause times in G1.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, jmasa, iveresov

Reviewed-by: jjh, dcubed

Summary: With predefined headers off for gcc, some .inline.hpp files aren't included to make definition visible for inline functions
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, xlu

Summary: Fixed the stack misalignment when generate_native_wrapper is called.
Reviewed-by: never, kamg, kvn, phh

6791815: Fix for 6471657 can cause deadlock on non-Solaris platforms when initializing direct buffer support
Summary: Place the state transition inside the loop so that the VMThread could proceed for safepoint
Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, acorn

Summary: Fix compilation errors from latest gcc in CC_INTERP including offending missing void* cast.
Reviewed-by: xlu

Summary: The CMS concurrent precleaning and concurrent marking phases should work around classes that are undergoing redefinition.
Reviewed-by: ysr, dcubed

Reviewed-by: phh, xlu

Summary: Added safe_object_iterate() for use by JMapPerm.
Reviewed-by: tonyp