8010151: nsk/regression/b6653214 fails "assert(snapshot != NULL) failed: Worker should not be started"
Summary: Fixed a racing condition when shutting down NMT while worker thread is being started, also fixed a few mis-declared volatile pointers.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong

7107135: Stack guard pages are no more protected after loading a shared library with executable stack
Summary: Detect the execstack attribute of the loaded library and attempt to fix the stack guard using Safepoint op.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

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

Summary: Pass down a closure during root scanning to keep the class of the method alive.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

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

Summary: Enables dynamic enrollment / disenrollment from the PeriodicTasks in WatcherThread.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mgronlun

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

7151532: DCmd for hotspot native memory tracking
Summary: Implementation of native memory tracking phase 1, which tracks VM native memory usage, and related DCmd
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, fparain

Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, dholmes

Summary: Added a nop tracing infrastructure, JFR makefile changes and other infrastructure used only by JFR.
Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: markus.gronlund@oracle.com

Summary: Integrate bsd-port/hotspot and macosx-port/hotspot changes as of 2011.09.29.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, never, phh
Contributed-by: NChristos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Kurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Alexander Strange &lt;astrange@apple.com&gt;, Mike Swingler &lt;swingler@apple.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Victor Hernandez &lt;vhernandez@apple.com&gt;, Pratik Solanki <psolanki@apple.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

6766644: Redefinition of compiled method fails with assertion "Can not load classes with the Compiler thread"
Summary: Defer posting events from the compiler thread: use service thread
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, never, dcubed

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

Summary: Mark field volatile, use membars, and change access order to close race
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes

Summary: Track allocated bytes in Thread's, update on TLAB retirement and direct allocation in Eden and tenured, add JNI methods for ThreadMXBean.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, dholmes, 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: reduce complexity by factoring synchronizer.cpp
Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, coleenp

Summary: Under certain circumstances a safepoint could happen between a JavaThread object being created and that object being added to the Java threads list. This could cause the active field of that thread's SATB queue to get out-of-sync with respect to the other Java threads. The solution is to activate the SATB queue, when necessary, before adding the thread to the Java threads list, not when the JavaThread object is created. The changeset also includes a small fix to rename the surrogate locker thread from "Surrogate Locker Thread (CMS)" to "Surrogate Locker Thread (Concurrent GC)" since it's also used in G1.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, ysr, johnc, jcoomes

6986270: guarantee(*bcp != Bytecodes::_monitorenter || exec_mode != Deoptimization::Unpack_exception) fails
Summary: Propagate the compiler type of the deopting method to vframeArrayElement::unpack_on_stack()
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: Pass the check in ResourceObj() if _allocation value is already set and object is allocated on stack.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, johnc

Summary: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

Summary: fix MonitorInUseLists memory leak and MonitorBound now works
Reviewed-by: chrisphi, dice

Summary: Enable parallel compilation in C1
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: New optional flags to reduce inflated monitor cleanup times
Reviewed-by: chrisphi, dice

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

6941529: SharedRuntime::raw_exception_handler_for_return_address must reset thread MethodHandle flag
Summary: During testing a bug was hit when an exception returned to the interpreter and the SP was wrong.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Rename can_post_exceptions support to can_post_on_exceptions. Add support for should_post_on_exceptions flag to permit per JavaThread optimizations.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, dcubed
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

Summary: During the work for 6829187 we have fixed a number of basic bugs which are logically grouped with 6815692 and 6858164 but which must be reviewed and pushed separately.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: If GC crashed with java thread involved, print out the java stack trace in error report
Reviewed-by: never, ysr, coleenp, dholmes

6889757: G1: enable card mark elision for initializing writes from compiled code (ReduceInitialCardMarks)
Summary: Defer the (compiler-elided) card-mark upon a slow-path allocation until after the store  and before the next subsequent safepoint; G1 now answers yes to can_elide_tlab_write_barriers().
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kvn, never

Summary: remove over locking by VMThread on "is thread suspended?" check
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, andrew