Summary: Some minor cleanups
Reviewed-by: tonyp, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: kamg, phh, dsamersoff
Contributed-by: NRickard Backman <rickard.backman@oracle.com>

Summary: Added a nop tracing infrastructure, JFR makefile changes and other infrastructure used only by JFR.
Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: markus.gronlund@oracle.com

Summary: Moved sizeof(klassOopDesc), changed the return type to ByteSize and removed the _in_bytes suffix.
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart, coleenp, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

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

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

Summary: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: More informative disassembly in product mode.  Also, a more consistent CompileCommand syntax.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: correctly raise exceptions, support safe bitwise "raw" conversions, fix bugs revealed by VerifyMethodHandles, remove dead code, improve debugging support
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 03/09
Reviewed-by: katleman, tbell, ohair

Summary: I have collected some typos I have found while looking at the code.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: First mercurial integration of the code for the Garbage-First garbage collector.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jmasa, sgoldman, tonyp, ysr

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold