7086533: G1: assert(!_g1->is_obj_dead(obj)): We should not be preserving dead objs: g1CollectedHeap.cpp:3835
Summary: Some objects may not be marked in the event of an evacuation failure in a partially young GC, during a marking cycle. Avoid this situation by not allowing partially young GCs during a marking cycle.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr, brutisso

Summary: Fixed a few inconsistencies in the monitoring data, in particular when reported from jstat.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso, johnc

Summary: G1 now uses two reference processors - one is used by concurrent marking and the other is used by STW GCs (both full and incremental evacuation pauses). In an evacuation pause, the reference processor is embedded into the closures used to scan objects. Doing so causes causes reference objects to be 'discovered' by the reference processor. At the end of the evacuation pause, these discovered reference objects are processed - preserving (and copying) referent objects (and their reachable graphs) as appropriate.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jwilhelm, brutisso, stefank, tonyp

Summary: As a result of the changes for 7080389, an evacuation failure during an initial mark pause may result in some root objects not being marked. Pass whether the caller is a root scanning closure into the evacuation failure handling code so that the thread that successfully forwards an object to itself also marks the object.
Reviewed-by: ysr, brutisso, tonyp

Summary: Make G1 handle young gen size command line flags more consistently
Reviewed-by: tonyp, jwilhelm

Summary: Fixed inconsistencies and mistakes in the young list target length calculations so that a) the calculated target length is optimal (before, it was not), b) other parameters like max survivor size and max gc locker eden expansion are always consistent with the calculated target length (before, they were not always), and c) the resulting target length was always bound by desired min and max values (before, it was not).
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: It introduces ergonomic decision logging in G1 for the following heuristics: heap sizing, collection set construction, concurrent cycle initiation, and partially-young GC start/end. The code has a bit of refactoring in a few places to make the decision logging possible. It also replaces alternative ad-hoc logging that we have under different parameters and switches (G1_DEBUG, G1PolicyVerbose).
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Summary: Remove the sentinelRef and let the last Reference in a discovered chain point back to itself.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Summary: Refactor code marking code in the evacuation pause copy closures so that an evacuated object is only marked by the thread that successfully copies it.
Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso, tonyp

Summary: Call {pre,post}_full_gc_dump() before and after a STW full gc of G1CollectedHeap. Also adjusted the prefix message, including the addition of missing whitespace.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp

Summary: Removed the possibility to turn off generational mode for G1.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr, tonyp

Summary: Refactor the allocation code during GC to use the G1AllocRegion abstraction. Use separate subclasses of G1AllocRegion for survivor and old regions. Avoid BOT updates and dirty survivor cards incrementally for the former.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc, ysr

Summary: Align the reserved size of the heap and perm to the heap region size to get a preferred heap base that is aligned to the region size, and call the correct heap reservation constructor. Also add a check in the heap reservation code that the reserved space starts at the requested address (if any).
Reviewed-by: kvn, ysr

Summary: In root processing, move the scanning of the reference processor's discovered lists to before RSet updating and scanning. When scanning the reference processor's discovered lists, use a buffering closure so that the time spent copying any reference object is correctly attributed. Also removed a couple of unused and irrelevant timers.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Summary: Extend and make more consistent the output from the G1PrintHeapRegions flag.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa

Summary: Remove two unnecessary iterations over the collection set which are supposed to prepare the RSet's of the CSet regions for parallel iterations (we'll make sure this is done incrementally). I'll piggyback on this CR the removal of the G1_REM_SET_LOGGING code.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: Remove two unused parameters from the mem_allocate() method and update its uses accordingly.
Reviewed-by: stefank, johnc

Summary: Perform a heap verification after the first phase of G1's full GC using objects' mark words to determine liveness. The third parameter of the heap verification routines, which was used in G1 to determine which marking bitmap to use in liveness calculations, has been changed from a boolean to an enum with values defined for using the mark word, and the 'prev' and 'next' bitmaps.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

7042285: G1: native memory leak during humongous object allocation
6804436: G1: heap region indices should be size_t
Summary: A series of fixes and improvements to the HeapRegionSeq class: a) replace the _regions growable array with a standard C array, b) avoid de-allocating / re-allocating HeapRegion instances when the heap shrinks / grows (fix for 7042285), c) introduce fast method to map address to HeapRegion via a "biased" array pointer, d) embed the _hrs object in G1CollectedHeap, instead of pointing to it via an indirection, e) assume that all the regions added to the HeapRegionSeq instance are contiguous, f) replace int's with size_t's for indexes (and expand that to HeapRegion as part of 6804436), g) remove unnecessary / unused methods, h) rename a couple of fields (_alloc_search_start and _seq_bottom), i) fix iterate_from() not to always start from index 0 irrespective of the region passed to it, j) add a verification method to check the HeapRegionSeq assumptions, k) always call the wrappers for _hrs.iterate(), _hrs_length(), and _hrs.at() from G1CollectedHeap, not those methods directly, and l) unify the code that expands the sequence (by either re-using or creating a new HeapRegion) and make it robust wrt to a HeapRegion allocation failing.
Reviewed-by: stefank, johnc, brutisso

Summary: This changeset extends the logging information generated by +PrintGCDetails to also print out separate size transitions for the eden, survivors, and old regions.
Reviewed-by: ysr, brutisso

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