7106024: CMS: Removed unused code for precleaning in remark phase Summary: Remove dead code. Reviewed-by: stefank, ysr

7112743: G1: Reduce overhead of marking closure during evacuation pauses Summary: Parallelize the serial code that was used to mark objects reachable from survivor objects in the collection set. Some minor improvments in the timers used to track the freeing of the collection set along with some tweaks to PrintGCDetails. Reviewed-by: tonyp, brutisso

7114303: G1: assert(_g1->mark_in_progress()) failed: shouldn't be here otherwise Summary: Race between the VM thread reading G1CollectedHeap::_mark_in_progress and it being set by the concurrent mark thread when concurrent marking is aborted by a full GC. Have the concurrent mark thread join the SuspendibleThreadSet before changing the marking state. Reviewed-by: tonyp, brutisso

6593758: RFE: Enhance GC ergonomics to dynamically choose ParallelGCThreads Summary: Select number of GC threads dynamically based on heap usage and number of Java threads Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr, jcoomes

Merge

7111795: G1: Various cleanups identified during walk through of changes for 6484965 Summary: Various cleanups and formatting changes identified during a code walk through of the changes for 6484965 ("G1: piggy-back liveness accounting phase on marking"). Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp

7110173: GCNotifier::pushNotification publishes stale data. Summary: GCNotifier::pushNotification() references GCMemoryManager::_last_gc_stat but is called from GCMemoryManager::gc_end() before GCMemoryManager::_last_gc_stat is set up using the values in GCMemoryManager::_current_gc_stat. As a result the GC notification code accesses unitialized or stale data. Move the notification call after GCMemoryManager::_las_gc_stat is set, but inside the same if-block. Reviewed-by: poonam, dholmes, fparain, mchung

7110718: -XX:MarkSweepAlwaysCompactCount=0 crashes the JVM Summary: Interpret MarkSweepAlwaysCompactCount < 1 as never do full compaction Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp, jmasa, johnc