Summary: Add 2 news classes to create VC8 and VC9 projects
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, xlu

Summary: Add executable parameters to reserve_memory and commit_memory to reduce executable memory to only the Code Heap.
Reviewed-by: xlu, kvn, acorn

Reviewed-by: xlu, mchung

Summary: Small fixes to sort out some verbosegc-related incorrectness and a failure
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

Summary: Resetting the invocation counter for a method invocation event was setting count to zero for CompileThreshold=1, making it look like a never executed method.
Reviewed-by: phh, kamg, acorn, never

Reviewed-by: coleenp, pbk, xlu, alanb

Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

Summary: Call make_block_at() with the original handler limits.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: We should mark the regions that continue humongous regions as live if the first region is live.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Allow Hotspot builds with latest Windows SDK 6.1 on 64bit Windows 2003
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell, jcoomes

Summary: Introduces two flags, -XX:-/+G1EnableParallelRSetUpdating and -XX:-/+G1EnableParallelRSetScanning, to turn on/off the "band aid" fix that serializes RSet updating / scanning during GCs.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: Enabled full verification for humongous regions. Also made sure that the VerifyAfterGC works with deferred updates and G1HRRSFlushLogBuffersOnVerify.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

6728271: G1: Cleanup G1CollectedHeap::get_gc_alloc_regions()
Summary: It allows the last half-full region to be allocated to during a GC to be reused during the next GC.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, jcoomes

Summary: After attaching, de-attaching SA from a process, the second time attach() call fails. This happens because in VM.initialize(), Universe does not get re-initialized before it is accessed.
Reviewed-by: swamyv

Summary: Code in interp_masm, stubGenerator, c1_LIRAssembler, and AD files moved into MacroAssembler.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Correct the overflow check in ParGCAllocBuffer::allocate(); simplify ParGCAllocBuffer::undo_allocation().
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, jcoomes, jmasa, minqi, phh, tonyp

Summary: bitCount() should use POPC on SPARC processors where POPC is implemented directly in hardware.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Update the HS15 Build number to 03
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jmasa, never, ysr

Summary: Use zero based compressed oops if java heap is below 32gb and unscaled compressed oops if java heap is below 4gb.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jcoomes, coleenp

Summary: A similar function to getisax(2) should be used to determine all possible instruction set extensions.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

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