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: Check clean words instead of clean bytes
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, jmasa, jwilhelm, ysr
Contributed-by: alexey.ragozin@gmail.com

Summary: Select number of GC threads dynamically based on heap usage and number of Java threads
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr, jcoomes

6883834: ParNew: assert(!_g->to()->is_in_reserved(obj),"Scanning field twice?") with LargeObjects tests
Summary: Fixed process_chunk_boundaries(), used for parallel card scanning when using ParNew/CMS, so as to prevent double-scanning, or worse, non-scanning of imprecisely marked objects exceeding parallel chunk size. Made some sizing parameters for parallel card scanning diagnostic, disabled ParallelGCRetainPLAB, and elaborated and clarified some comments.
Reviewed-by: stefank, johnc

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: 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: Removed the unused clear argument to various cardtbale methods and unused mod_oop_in_space_iterate method. Unrelated to synopsis, added  a pair of clarifying parens in AllocationStats constructor.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jcoomes

7029036: Card-table verification hangs with all framework collectors, except G1, even before the first GC
Summary: When verifying clean card ranges, use memory-range-bounded iteration over oops of objects overlapping that range, thus avoiding the otherwise quadratic worst-case cost of scanning large object arrays.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm, tonyp

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

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

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

6826318: G1: remove traversal-based refinement code
Summary: Removed traversal-based refinement code as it's no longer used. Made the concurrent refinement (queue-based) parallel.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

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

Summary: In verification take into account partial coverage of a region by a card and expansion of the card table.
Reviewed-by: ysr, apetrusenko