Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

Summary: Sometimes the gc cause was not always set. This caused JStat to print the wrong information.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr
Contributed-by: suenaga.yasumasa@oss.ntt.co.jp

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

Summary: Fire the gc-begin and gc-end probes for G1.
Reviewed-by: kamg, ysr, jcoomes

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

Summary: G1 was not handling explicit GCs correctly in many ways. It does now. See the CR for the list of improvements contained in this changeset.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, ysr, johnc

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

Summary: Ensure a full GC that clears SoftReferences before throwing an out-of-memory
Reviewed-by: ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Call newly created CollectedHeap::dump_{pre,post}_full_gc before and after every stop-world full collection cycle on GenCollectedHeap and ParallelScavengeHeap. (Support for G1CollectedHeap forthcoming under CR 6810861.) Small modifications to existing heap dumping and class histogram implementation, especially to allow multiple on-the-fly histos/dumps by the VM thread during a single safepoint.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, alanb, mchung

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

6539517: CR 6186200 should be extended to perm gen allocation to prevent spurious OOM's from perm gen
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa