Summary: During an evacuation pause clear the region fields of any concurrent marking task whose local finger points into the collection set as the values in the region fields will become stale. Clearing these fields causes the concurrent mark task to claim a new region when marking restarts after the pause.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Summary: Add a notification to the GarbageCollectorMXBeans
Reviewed-by: acorn, mchung

7040450: G1: assert((_g1->evacuation_failed()) || (!_g1->obj_in_cs(obj))) failed: shouldn't still be in ...
Summary: There is a race in the evac failure handling code that causes the condition the assert checks not to be true. The fix is to replace the too-strong assert with a more targeted one.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Implement a more accurate is_scavengable()
Reviewed-by: stefank, jcoomes, ysr

7035144: G1: nightly failure: Non-dirty cards in region that should be dirty (failures still exist...)
Summary: We should only undirty cards after we decide that they are not on a young region, not before. The fix also includes improvements to the verify_dirty_region() method which print out which cards were not found dirty.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

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: Added counters for jstat
Reviewed-by: tonyp, jwilhelm, stefank, ysr, johnc

Summary: It introduces non-product cmd line parameter G1DummyRegionsPerGC which indicates how many "dummy" regions to allocate at the end of each GC. This allows the G1 heap to grow artificially and makes concurrent marking cycles more frequent irrespective of what the application that is running is doing. The dummy regions will be found totally empty during cleanup so this parameter can also be used to stress the concurrent cleanup operation.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: Use _max_num_q = max(discovery_degree, processing_degree), and let balance_queues() redistribute from discovery_degree to processing_degree of queues. This should also allow a more dynamic and flexible parallelism policy in the future.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: Some G1 code cleanup.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jcoomes, jwilhelm

Summary: Make the G1 specific version of is_in_closed_subset() available in all builds.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, jcoomes

7023151: G1: refactor the code that operates on _cur_alloc_region to be re-used for allocs by the GC threads
7018286: G1: humongous allocation attempts should take the GC locker into account
Summary: First, this change replaces the asymmetric locking scheme in the G1 slow alloc path by a summetric one. Second, it factors out the code that operates on _cur_alloc_region so that it can be re-used for allocations by the GC threads in the future.
Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso, johnc

Summary: What the synopsis says.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, iveresov, johnc

7007446: G1: expand the heap with a single step, not one region at a time
Summary: Changed G1CollectedHeap::expand() to expand the committed space by calling VirtualSpace::expand_by() once rather than for every region in the expansion amount. This allows the success or failure of the expansion to be determined before creating any heap regions. Introduced a develop flag G1ExitOnExpansionFailure (false by default) that, when true, will exit the VM if the expansion of the committed space fails. Finally G1CollectedHeap::expand() returns a status back to it's caller so that the caller knows whether to attempt the allocation.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp

Summary: A race between the concurrent cleanup thread and the VM thread while it is processing the "expanded sparse table list" causes both threads to try to free the same sparse table entry and either causes one of the threads to fail or leaves the entry in an inconsistent state. The solution is purge all entries on the expanded list that correspond go regions that are being cleaned up.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: This changeset removes the zero-filling thread from G1 and collapses the two free region lists we had before (the "free" and "unclean" lists) into one. The new free list uses the new heap region sets / lists abstractions that we'll ultimately use it to keep track of all regions in the heap. A heap region set was also introduced for the humongous regions. Finally, this change increases the concurrency between the thread that completes freeing regions (after a cleanup pause) and the rest of the system (before we'd have to wait for said thread to complete before allocating a new region). The changest also includes a lot of refactoring and code simplification.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, johnc

Summary: Pass the value of UseLargePages instead of false as the "large" parameter when reserving the G1 heap.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, johnc, phh

Summary: First attempt to allocate out the current alloc region using a CAS instead of taking the Heap_lock (first level of G1's slow allocation path). Only if that fails and it's necessary to replace the current alloc region take the Heap_lock (that's the second level of G1's slow allocation path).
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso, ysr

Summary: During evacuation failure handling we refine the BOT to reflect the location of all the objects in the regions we scan. The changeset includes some minor cleanup: a) non-product print_on() method on the G1 BOT class, b) added more complete BOT verification during heap / region verification, c) slight modification to the BOT set up for humongous regions to be more consistent with the BOT set up during evac failure handling, and d) removed a couple of unused methods.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Summary: Make JvmtiGCMark safe to run non-safepoint and instrument CMS
Reviewed-by: ysr, dcubed

Summary: Fire the gc-begin and gc-end probes for G1.
Reviewed-by: kamg, ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Age bits need not enter the mark-word preservation calculus; also affected, in addition to CMS, per CR synopsis above, were ParNew (but not DefNew), ParallelScavenge and G1, albeit to a lesser degree than CMS.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, johnc

Summary: Initialize the _is_alive_non_header field of G1's reference processor with an instance of the G1CMIsAliveClosure. This will stop adding reference objects with live referents to the discovered reference lists unnecessarily.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr, jwilhelm, brutisso

7000559: G1: assertion failure !outer || (full_collections_started == _full_collections_completed + 1)
Summary: The concurrent marking thread can complete its operation and increment the full GC counter during a Full GC. This causes the nesting of increments to the start and end of Full GCs that we are expecting to be wrong. the fix is for the marking thread to join the suspendible thread set before incrementing the counter so that it's blocked until the Full GC (or any other safepoint) is finished. The change also includes some minor code cleanup (I renamed a parameter).
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr

Summary: Relaxed the assert by allowing NULL referents when discovery may be concurrent.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jcoomes

Summary: Allow the eden to the expanded up to a point when the GC locker is active.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, johnc, ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Wrong assumption about expecting the current alloc region expected to be NULL in expand_and_allocate().
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr

Summary: Enable reference discovery during concurrent marking by setting the reference processor field of the concurrent marking closure. Keep reference objects on the discovered reference lists alive during incremental evacuation pauses until they are processed at the end of concurrent marking.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

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

Summary: An evacuation failure while copying the roots caused an object, A, to be forwarded to itself. During the subsequent RSet updating a reference to A was processed causing the reference to be added to the RSet of A's heap region. As a result of adding to the remembered set we ran into the issue described in 6930581 - the sparse table expanded and the RSet scanning code walked the cards in one instance of RHashTable (_cur) while the occupied() counts the cards in the expanded table (_next).
Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Summary: When an entry is stolen, don't push it on the task queue but process it directly.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, ysr, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Summary: Remove G1RemSet base class and StupidG1RemSet class; rename HRInto_G1RemSet to just G1RemSet.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Clear the concurrent marking "in progress" flag while the FullGCCount_lock is held. This avoids a race that can cause back to back System.gc() calls, when ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent is enabled, to fail to initiate a marking cycle causing the requesting thread to hang.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: Associate number of GC workers with the workgang as opposed to the task.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: This change revamps the slow allocation path of G1. Improvements include the following: a) Allocations directly to old regions are now totally banned. G1 now only allows allocations out of young regions (with the only exception being humongous regions). b) The thread that allocates a new region (which is now guaranteed to be young) does not dirty all its cards. Each thread that successfully allocates out of a young region is now responsible for dirtying the cards that corresponding to the "block" that just got allocated. c) allocate_new_tlab() and mem_allocate() are now implemented differently and TLAB allocations are only done by allocate_new_tlab(). d) If a thread schedules an evacuation pause in order to satisfy an allocation request, it will perform the allocation at the end of the safepoint so that the thread that initiated the GC also gets "first pick" of any space made available by the GC. e) If a thread is unable to allocate a humongous object it will schedule an evacuation pause in case it reclaims enough regions so that the humongous allocation can be satisfied aftewards. f) The G1 policy is more careful to set the young list target length to be the survivor number +1. g) Lots of code tidy up, removal, refactoring to make future changes easier.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

6975964: G1: print out a more descriptive message for evacuation failure when +PrintGCDetails is set
Summary: we're renaming "evacuation failure" to "to-space overflow". I'm also piggy-backing a small additional change which removes the "Mark closure took..." output.
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc

Summary: as the title says, sometimes we are allocating humongous objects in young regions and we shouldn't.
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc

Summary: There are a few issues in the code that calculates whether to resize the heap and by how much: a) some calculations can overflow 32-bit size_t's, b) min_desired_capacity is not bounded by the max heap size, and c) the assrt that fires is in the wrong place. The fix also includes some tidying up of the related verbose code.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa