8134749: SoftReferences declared dead too early Reviewed-by: jmasa, tbenson

Merge

8150676: Use BufferNode index Summary: Maintain index and use it, removing extra checks for or stores of NULL. Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl

8150778: Reduce Throwable.getStackTrace() calls to the JVM Summary: replace JVM_GetStackTraceDepth and JVM_GetStackTraceElement, with JVM_GetStackTraceElements that gets all the elements in the StackTraceElement[] Reviewed-by: shade, mchung, dholmes, hseigel

Merge

8145908: [Newtest] Multi-threading stress test for G1 Remembered Sets Reviewed-by: tschatzl, mchernov

8150183: gc/g1/plab/TestPLABResize.java - previous PLAB size should be less than current Reviewed-by: jmasa, dfazunen

Merge

8151440: Move BitMap verfication inline functions out from bitMap.hpp Reviewed-by: tschatzl, pliden, kbarrett

8151439: Inline the BitMap constructor Reviewed-by: tschatzl, pliden, kbarrett

8151436: Leaner ArrayAllocator and BitMaps Reviewed-by: tschatzl, pliden, kbarrett

8150617: nth_bit and friends are broken Reviewed-by: shade, tschatzl, vlivanov

8151514: Remove the noisy NOISY debugging code from parCardTableModRefBS.cpp Reviewed-by: tschatzl, pliden

8145312: CMS: There is insufficient memory with CMSSamplingGrain=1 Summary: Change minimum range and add constraint function for CMSSamplingGrain flag Reviewed-by: jmasa, ddmitriev