Summary: Expand the old gen in bigger increments
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: BlockOffsetArrayUseUnallocatedBlock was intended to be turned off as part of BUG 6948538 but a code line in collectorPolicy.cpp actually kept it turned on.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, ysr

Summary: Turn on UseLargePages by default but try only HugeTLBFS method if it is not explicitly specified on the command line.
Reviewed-by: ysr

7035144: G1: nightly failure: Non-dirty cards in region that should be dirty (failures still exist...)
Summary: We should only undirty cards after we decide that they are not on a young region, not before. The fix also includes improvements to the verify_dirty_region() method which print out which cards were not found dirty.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

7034139: G1: assert(Thread::current()->is_ConcurrentGC_thread()) failed: only a conc GC thread can call this.
Summary: We were calling STS join and leave during a STW pause and we are not suppoesed to. I now only call those during  concurrent phase. I also added stress code in the non-product builds to force an overflows (the condition that ws uncovering the bug) to make sure it does not happen again.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Summary: Don't enable TraceClassUnloading whne -Xloggc is specified.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: Avoid blocking in CompileBroker::compile_method_base() if the current thread holds the pending list lock.
Reviewed-by: never, brutisso, ysr

Summary: In G1 heap verification, we no longer scan perm to G1-collected heap refs as part of process_strong_roots() but rather in a separate explicit oop iteration over the perm gen. This preserves the original perm card-marks. Added a new assertion in younger_refs_iterate() to catch a simple subcase where the user may have forgotten a prior save_marks() call, as happened in the case of G1's attempt to iterate perm to G1 refs when verifying the heap before exit. The assert was deliberately weakened for ParNew+CMS and will be fixed for that combination in a future CR. Also made some (non-G1) cleanups related to code and comments obsoleted by the migration of Symbols to the native heap.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, jmasa, tonyp

Summary: Make the NUMA allocator behave properly with SHM and ISM large pages.
Reviewed-by: ysr

Summary: Handle stack overflow before the first frame is called, by printing out the called method and not walking the stack.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, phh, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: stefank

Summary: Update the HS21 build number to 10
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Added counters for jstat
Reviewed-by: tonyp, jwilhelm, stefank, ysr, johnc

Summary: Short-circuited an unnecessary double traversal of dirty card windows when iterating younger refs. Also renamed some cardtable methods for more clarity.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, poonam

Summary: Support transparent huge pages on Linux available since 2.6.38
Reviewed-by: iveresov, ysr
Contributed-by: aph@redhat.com

Summary: The change avoids generating relocation info entry for the staging area patching stub on systems that don't support movw/movt instructions
Reviewed-by: bdelsart

Summary: It introduces non-product cmd line parameter G1DummyRegionsPerGC which indicates how many "dummy" regions to allocate at the end of each GC. This allows the G1 heap to grow artificially and makes concurrent marking cycles more frequent irrespective of what the application that is running is doing. The dummy regions will be found totally empty during cleanup so this parameter can also be used to stress the concurrent cleanup operation.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: Use LIR_OprDesc::as_pointer_register() instead as_register/as_register_lo combination in the code changes for 7035117.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: Added counters for jstat
Reviewed-by: tonyp, jwilhelm, stefank, ysr, johnc

Summary: use java_lang_String::create_from_platform_dependent_str() instead of java_lang_String::create_from_str() in JvmtiEnv::AddToSystemClassLoaderSearch()
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: Update the HS21 build number to 09
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Missing parentheses around a casted expression and some missing casts were causing build failures with the jdk6 build tools.
Reviewed-by: kvn, brutisso

Summary: Make CDS reorder vtables so that dump time vtables match run time order, so when redefine classes reinitializes them, they aren't in the wrong order.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn