Summary: Enhance scalability of native memory tracking
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi, gtriantafill

Summary: Extend the WhiteBox API to provide information about the size and age of objects. Further add a mechanism to trigger a young GC.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, sjohanss
Contributed-by: NLeonid Mesnik <leonid.mesnik@oracle.com>

Summary: Allow G1 to decommit memory of arbitrary regions within the heap and their associated auxiliary data structures card table, BOT, hot card cache, and mark bitmaps.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso, jwilhelm

Summary: Let HeapRegionSeq manage the heap region and auxiliary data to decrease the amount of responsibilities of G1CollectedHeap, and encapsulate this work from other code.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, mgerdin, brutisso

Summary: negative verify_guards when testing for corruption
Reviewed-by: sla, fparain

Summary: Wrapped memory with standard bounds checking "GuardedMemory".
Reviewed-by: zgu, fparain, dcubed

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, sla

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ehelin, brutisso, coleenp, roland, iveresov
Contributed-by: stefan.karlsson@oracle.com, mikael.gerdin@oracle.com

Summary: Increase the previous limit from 4k to 64k, added "-XX:MaxJNILocalCapacity=<capacity>" flag
Reviewed-by: hseigel, fparain

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: twisti, stefank

8043029: Change 8037816 breaks HS build with older GCC versions which don't support diagnostic pragmas
8043164: Format warning in traceStream.hpp
Summary: Backport of main fix + two corrections, enables clang compilation, turns on format attributes, corrects/mutes warnings
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, iveresov, twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, stefank, twisti

Reviewed-by: mgronlun, kamg

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: morris, kvn

Summary: Now using NewRatio to size initial NewSize if not specified on commandline.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

8033150: invokestatic: IncompatibleClassChangeError trying to invoke static method from a parent in presence of conflicting defaults.
Summary: A static method should be preferred during method resolution over an overpass, search the current class as well as its superclasses.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, kamg

Summary: Moved test code inside INCLUDE_ALL_GCS
Reviewed-by: stefank, ehelin

Summary: Move redo of ParkEvent.unpark() after JVMTI_EVENT_MONITOR_WAITED event handler is called.
Reviewed-by: rdurbin, acorn, sspitsyn, dsimms, dholmes

Summary: Made the flags Min- and MaxHeapFreeRatio manageable, and implemented support for these flags in ParallelGC.
Reviewed-by: sla, mgerdin, brutisso

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn, iignatyev
Contributed-by: filipp.zhinkin@oracle.com

Summary: Change the code cache remembered sets data structure from a GrowableArray to a chunked list of nmethods. This makes the data structure more amenable to parallelization, and decreases freeing time.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: use the HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION and CLEAR_PENDING_EXCEPTION macros
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, dcubed

Summary: added JNI exception pending check in several files under src/share/vm/prims directory
Reviewed-by: coleenp, minqi

8030027: nsk/jvmti/scenarios/hotswap/HS101/hs101t006 Crashed the vm on Linux-amd64: SIGSEGV in JavaThread::last_java_vframe(RegisterMap*)+0xfa
Summary: Add a safe guard to VMOp_GetCurrentLocation against non-walkable stack of target thread exiting from Java execution
Reviewed-by: mgronlun, dholmes, sla, dcubed
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn
Contributed-by: martin.doerr@sap.com

Summary: Generate correct "vtable stub" dynamic code notifications
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, kvn, coleenp
Contributed-by: oleg.mazurov@oracle.com

8030662: "assert(counter_changed) failed: failed dependencies, but counter didn't change" still fails
Summary: Erroneously removed call to SystemDictionary::notice_modification() from jvmti with fix for 8029383
Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, kamg

Summary: Copyright year updated for files modified during 2013
Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

Summary: Windows need an exception wrapper around getPsrInfo_stub() call in order to properly handle SEGV for YMM registers test.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, iignatyev

Summary: no call to SystemDictionary::notice_modification() when class is defined through Unsafe.defineAnonymousClass() can caused missed dependency change.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: update MemberName.clazz correctly in MemberName.resolve; also pass lookupClass to MethodHandles::resolve_MemberName
Reviewed-by: acorn, vlivanov

8028126: nsk/jvmti/scenarios/hotswap/HS101/hs101t006 Crashed the vm on Solaris-sparc64 fastdebug builds: only current thread can flush its registers
Summary: Fix a race between VMOp_GetCurrentLocation reaching a safepoint and arget thread exiting from Java execution
Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes, dsamersoff
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Minimal VM doesn't run
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Three tests added: 1) test stressing VirtualSpace by resizing it constantly 2) test running unit tests in several threads 3) test checking protected area in ReservedHeapSpace class
Reviewed-by: stefank, zgu
Contributed-by: aleksey.timofeev@oracle.com

7057939: jmap shows MaxNewSize=4GB when Java is using parallel collector
Summary: Major cleanup of the collectorpolicy classes
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jcoomes