Summary: Do patching rather bailing out for unlinked call with appendix
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: NTao Mao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: Add a file, globals_ext.hpp, containing a null interface, to be replaced by a vendor in altsrc as needed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, dholmes, johnc, jrose

Summary: Revert 7116481 to current hsx/hotspot-main
Reviewed-by: kamg

Summary: Add -XX:+UnlockCommercialVMOptions to gate use of commercial feature switches in the same way as -XX:UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions gates use of diagnostic feature switches.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, kamg

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

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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

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

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

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

Summary: Default values set by cms ergonomics are set with FLAG_SET_DEFAULT so down stream the values look like the default values and affect how later parameters are set.  Set these values with FLAG_SET_ERGO instead and adjust how later parameters are interpreted.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, apetrusenko, pbk, ysr