Summary: Change the flag -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal to product and add new product flag -XX:+PrintFlagsInitial.
Reviewed-by: phh, ysr
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com

Summary: During the work for 6829187 we have fixed a number of basic bugs which are logically grouped with 6815692 and 6858164 but which must be reviewed and pushed separately.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Smaller fixes to ensure that Zero still works with non-standard options.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Set minimum heap size to min(OldSize + NewSize, MaxHeapSize) in Arguments::set_heap_size().
Reviewed-by: kvn, ysr, tonyp

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Apply modification of existing server heap size ergo to all collectors except CMS.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ysr, xlu

Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com

Summary: Make a special root-list for those few nmethods which might contain non-perm oops.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, jmasa, ysr

Summary: Fix CDS/CMS option overrides related to iCMS option CMSIncrementalMode; explicate overrides to error stream.
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: enable compressed oops by default
Reviewed-by: never, ysr

Summary: Use NewRatio if it is explicitly set.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Modifications to G1 so as to allow the use of compressed oops.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, coleenp, jmasa, kvn, never, phh, tonyp

Summary: Change G1 flag names to be more consistent and disable some in 'product' mode.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: initial implementation, with known omissions (x86/64, sparc, compiler optim., c-oops, C++ interp.)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, never

Summary: Support multiplex and mutable sun.boot.library.path
Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed, xlu

Summary: Use SSE 4.2 in intrinsics for String.{compareTo/equals/indexOf} and Arrays.equals.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Summary: Use zero based compressed oops if java heap is below 32gb and unscaled compressed oops if java heap is below 4gb.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jcoomes, coleenp

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

Summary: Allocate worker-local overflow stacks, introduced in 6819891, along with ParNewGeneration, rather than with the per-scavenge ParScanThreadState.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Add new product flag -XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions
Reviewed-by: ysr, xlu

Summary: During argument processing, add alt-rt.jar to the bootclasspath between bootclasspath/p and default elements.
Reviewed-by: xlu, coleenp

Summary: Fixed the wrong cast between types since more restrictions are imposed by gcc 4.3.2
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, acorn, phh, never

Reviewed-by: ysr, mchung

Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: The default value of UseVMInterruptibleIO is changed to false for JDK 7, but the default isn't changed for JDK 6 and earlier.
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, dholmes, kamg, alanb

Summary: Inline biased locking code in C2 ideal graph during macro nodes expansion
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: rasbold, kvn, kamg

Summary: Turn off c2 implicit null checking on windows and large pages specified.
Reviewed-by: jrose, xlu

Summary: Workaround for CompOops bug
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Escape Analysis fixes.
Reviewed-by: never, rasbold

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

Summary: allocate alignment-sized page(s) below java heap so that memory accesses at heap_base+1page give signal and cause an implicit null check
Reviewed-by: kvn, jmasa, phh, jcoomes

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

Summary: Make FreeChunk read markword instead of LSB in _klass pointer to indicate that it's a FreeChunk for compressed oops.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Summary: comment out code that turns on compressed oops
Reviewed-by: never, phh

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

Summary: Intrinsify java/util/Arrays.equals(char[], char[])
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Need to subtract MaxPermSize from the total heap size when determining whether compressed oops is turned on.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes, kvn

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