Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

Summary: If and when the reference handler thread is able to use the discovered field to link reference objects in its pending list, so will GC. In that case, GC will scan through this field once a reference object has been placed on the pending list, but not scan that field before that stage, as the field is used by the concurrent GC thread to link discovered objects. When ReferenceHandleR thread does not use the discovered field for the purpose of linking the elements in the pending list, as would be the case in older JDKs, the JVM will fall back to the old behaviour of using the next field for that purpose.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, mchung, stefank

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: It turns out that there is no need to explicitly stop CMS since the JVM is taken down at a terminal safepoint during which CMS threads are (terminally) inactive. This  will need to be revised if and when we evolve in the future to a point where we allow JVM reincarnation in the same process, but those changes will be much more sweeping than just terminating CMS threads. The unused ::stop() methods will be removed in a separate CR. Also include in this CR is the fix for a small typo in the spelling of UseGCLogFileRotation in a message in arguments.cpp, brought to our attention by Rainer Jung and reviewed by minqi.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, kamg, hosterda

Summary: Added new method inc_stat_counter() to increment long statistic values and use atomic long load and store.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, jrose, phh, never

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

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

Reviewed-by: mchung, acorn

6583275: Hotspot crash in vm_perform_shutdown_actions due to uninitialized TLS during out of memory handling
Summary: Call get_thread_slow() in vm_perform_shutdown actions and add null check.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, jcoomes

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

Summary: Fix the compiler error. Allow to build just c2 specifying FORCE_TIERED=0 on the command line.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Reviewed-by: kamg, ysr, dholmes, johnc

Summary: Add mechanism to ignore unsupported flags for a set period of time
Reviewed-by: acorn, never, coleenp

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

Summary: This fix enables the generation of core file when process runs out of C-heap.
Reviewed-by: sbohne

Summary: Remove -XX:+CacheTimeMillis option and associated functionality
Reviewed-by: acorn, never