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: Make a special root-list for those few nmethods which might contain non-perm oops.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, jmasa, ysr

Summary: Modifications to G1 so as to allow the use of compressed oops.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, coleenp, jmasa, kvn, never, phh, tonyp

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 03/09
Reviewed-by: katleman, tbell, ohair

Summary: Added safe_object_iterate() for use by JMapPerm.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Maintain a high water mark for the allocations in a space and mangle only up to that high water mark.
Reviewed-by: ysr, apetrusenko

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

Summary: First mercurial integration of the code for the Garbage-First garbage collector.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jmasa, sgoldman, tonyp, ysr

Summary: NUMA-aware allocator port to Linux
Reviewed-by: jmasa, apetrusenko

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