Summary: see synopsis
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa

Summary: Rename marking stack sizing flags to be common between G1 and CMS
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: replace the combination of the G1SteadyStateUsed / G1SteadyStateUsedDelta parameteres to decide the marking initiation threshold and instead use InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent.
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc

Summary: Rename G1 parameters to make them more consistent.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: Implemented block-based work stealing. Moved copying during the rset scanning phase to the main copying phase. Made the size of rset table depend on the region size.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, tonyp

Summary: G1 now answers "no" to the query can_elide_initializing_store_barrier() in the product build. A debug flag allows alternate behaviour in debug builds.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Summary: Reworked the concurrent refinement: threads activation, feedback-based threshold adjustment, other miscellaneous fixes.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, tonyp

Summary: ScavengeALot now causes an incremental (but possibly partially young, in the G1 sense) collection. Some such collections may be abandoned on account of MMU specs. Band-aided a native leak associated with abandoned pauses, as well as an MMU tracker overflow related to frequent scavenge events in the face of a large MMU denominator interval; the latter is protected by a product flag that defaults to false.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Protected stats dump with a new develop flag; other than for the dump, reconciled product and non-product behaviour in face of the error.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Revamp the reachable object dump debugging facility.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, apetrusenko

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: Instead of the region size being hard-coded, allow the user to set it.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, apetrusenko

Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Summary: Removing the concurrent overhead tracker from G1, along with the GC overhead reporter and the G1AccountConcurrentOverhead (both of which rely on the the concurrent overhead tracker).
Reviewed-by: iveresov, johnc

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

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

Summary: Turn off G1VerifyConcMarkPrintReachable by default to minimize the amount of verbose output we generate by default.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Summary: Introduces two flags, -XX:-/+G1EnableParallelRSetUpdating and -XX:-/+G1EnableParallelRSetScanning, to turn on/off the "band aid" fix that serializes RSet updating / scanning during GCs.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

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

6720334: G1: don't update RSets of collection set regions during an evacuation pause
Summary: Introduced a deferred update mechanism for delaying the rset updates during the collection pause
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, tonyp

6797754: G1: combined bugfix
Summary: Implemented a policy to control G1 survivor space parameters.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Summary: A bunch of performance optimizations to decrease GC pause times in G1.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, jmasa, iveresov

Summary: experimental() flags will protect features of an experimental nature that are not supported in the regular product build. Made UseG1GC an experimental flag.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, coleenp

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