Summary: The first worker thread is delayed when entering the GC because it clears the card count table that is used in identifying hot cards. Replace the card count table with a dynamically sized evicting hash table that includes an epoch based counter.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Summary: Have the GC worker threads clear the hot card cache in parallel by having each worker thread claim a chunk of the card cache and process the cards in that chunk. The size of the chunks that each thread will claim is determined at VM initialization from the size of the card cache and the number of worker threads.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp

Summary: In the assertion allow for collision with the guard page.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr, jcoomes

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

Summary: It adds parameter -XX:+G1SummarizeRSetStatsPeriod that causes update buffer processing information to be printed periodically. It also includes two small formatting changes.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes, ysr

Summary: renaming a couple of update buffer-related parameters to make them more understandable and consistent.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, ysr

Summary: Correctly count full GC operations for framework collectors. Add ForceFullGCJVMTIEpilogues as a future work around if needed.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, alanb, ysr

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

Summary: JVM_FindClassFromBootLoader returns null if class not found
Reviewed-by: acorn, alanb, dholmes

Summary: Update the HS16 build number to 07
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Bailout compilation if nodes limit could be reached during Output phase.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Anti-delta for debugging debris that was inadvertently pushed.
Reviewed-by: kvn, tonyp

Summary: Fix deoptimization code and OopMapSet::all_do() to check for oop = narrow_oop_base.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, phh, ysr, never

Summary: Implementation of RFE 6604422 (G1: re-use half-promoted regions) introduced incorrect _gc_alloc_region_counts updates which effectively disabled survivor spaces.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa, tonyp

Summary: remove useless lazy evaluation of intrinsics; add LAST_COMPILER_INLINE to help categorize them
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: GlobalMemoryStatus() does not report correct memory usage when the system has more than 4gb of RAM. GlobalMemoryStatusEx() should be used in place of GlobalMemoryStatus().
Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

Reviewed-by: rasbold

Summary: Get type for new Phi from non dead path.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Fix eliminate_card_mark() to eliminate G1 pre/post barriers.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: never, kvn
Contributed-by: yamauchi@google.com, rasbold@google.com

Summary: The used() method assumes that the heap lock is held when it is called. However, when used() is called from print_on(), this is not the case.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti