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

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

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Summary: Define jlong as long on all LP64 platforms and add JLONG_FORMAT macro.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, mikael, kvn

Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Summary: Remove bit-rotten ValidateMarkSweep functionality and flag.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

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

Summary: Restore non-silent output of heap verification.
Reviewed-by: ysr, brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Change the flags and variables related to tenuring threshold to be unsigned
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Reviewed-by: johnc

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

Summary: Removed the unused keep_alive parameter
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, kamg, coleenp

Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp, kvn

Summary: Simple renaming to be consistent with instanceKlass->InstanceKlass renaming
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

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: mgerdin, johnc

Summary: use load_decode_heap_oop instead of load_decode_heap_oop_not_null
Reviewed-by: tonyp, brutisso

Summary: removed oop_verify_old_oop and allow_dirty. Also reviewed by: alexlamsl@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: jcoomes, brutisso

Summary: in some cases, allocate from the old gen before doing a full gc
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, kevinw, brutisso, twisti, jmasa

Summary: Prunes scavenge roots in code list every young GC, promote objects directly pointed by the code immediately
Reviewed-by: johnc, jcoomes

Summary: Replaces calls to os::javaTimeMillis(), which does not (and cannot) guarantee monotonicity, in GC code to an equivalent expression that uses os::javaTimeNanos(). os::javaTimeNanos is guaranteed monotonically non-decreasing if the underlying platform provides a monotonic time source. Changes in OS files are to make use of the newly defined constants in globalDefinitions.hpp.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ysr

Summary: Provoke a GC for a metadata allocation failure.
Reviewed-by: johnc, iveresov

Summary: Remove obsolete code.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso, poonam

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>