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

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, stefank, jmasa

8020277: Young GC could be extremely slow due to assertion in ObjectStartArray::object_starts_in_range
8009462: Young GC's (ParNewGC and SerialGC) have unexpected variances.
Summary: Removed the assertion slowing down GC.
Reviewed-by: stefank, mgerdin

Summary: Correct timing measurement by modifying the scope of the GCTraceTime instance.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tamao
Contributed-by: NJeremy Manson <jeremymanson@google.com>

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

Summary: Reducing the number of calls to follow_class_loader to speed up the marking phase. Also removed some unnecessary calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: dholmes, egahlin

Summary: Needed to update _space_alignment in generation sizer to ensure correct sizing of spaces.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl

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

Summary: Cleanup related to the NewSize and MaxNewSize bugs
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jcoomes, ehelin

Summary: Removed stray includes and some minor cleanup of GenerationSizer
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jcoomes

Summary: Enable CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS in fastdebug builds across all supported platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, dholmes, stefank, twisti, ihse, rdurbin
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Use conservative assumptions of required alignment for the various garbage collector components into account when determining the maximum heap size that supports compressed oops. Using this conservative value avoids several circular dependencies in the calculation.
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, hseigel, jmasa, ctornqvi

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso

Summary: Missing linebreak in hotspot log.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl
Contributed-by: vladimir.kempik@oracle.com

8013057: assert(_needs_gc || SafepointSynchronize::is_at_safepoint()) failed: only read at safepoint
Summary: Detect mmap() commit failures in Linux and Solaris os::commit_memory() impls and call vm_exit_out_of_memory(). Add os::commit_memory_or_exit(). Also tidy up some NMT accounting and some mmap() return value checking.
Reviewed-by: zgu, stefank, dholmes, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>

Summary: Pad the PSPromotionManager instances in the manager array.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Compare compressed oops to a compressed young gen boundary instead of uncompressing the oops before doing the young gen boundary check.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl

Summary: Combine the calls to StringTable::unlink and StringTable::oops_do in Parallel Scavenge.
Reviewed-by: pliden, coleenp

Summary: Split SystemDictionary and ClassLoaderDataGraph root processing to help load balancing.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, johnc

Summary: Rename: compute_generations_free_space() = compute_eden_space_size() + compute_old_gen_free_space(); update related logging messages
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, tschatzl, brutisso
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: Print helpful error message when VM aborts due to inability of allocating bit maps or card tables
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

8007763: Refactoring: split up compute_generation_free_space() into two functions for class PSAdaptiveSizePolicy
Summary: split up compute_generation_free_space() into two functions: compute_eden_space_size() + compute_old_gen_free_space(), each of which (if needed) can be reused without executing an overhead of the other.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: Setting some public integer options to specific values causes crashes or undefined GC behavior. This patchset adds the necessary argument checking for these options.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Reviewed-by: stefank, tschatzl

Summary: With NPG, const KlassOop klass which is in fact a definition converted to Klass* const, which is not the original intention. The right usage is converting them to const Klass*.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, hseigel

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Use GC_locker::is_active_and_needs_gc() instead of GC_locker::is_active() for providing information about the reason of heap expansion.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: Keep a counter of how many times we were stalled by the GC locker, add a diagnostic flag which sets the limit.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ehelin, johnc

Summary: Use the correct collector to retrieve accumulated gen1 trace time
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa

Reviewed-by: johnc

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp