8140257: Add support for "gc service threads" to ConcurrentGCThread Summary: Push up the common run() and stop() methods from subclasses to ConcurrentGCThread, as well as declaration iof run_service() stop_service(). Reviewed-by: kbarrett, pliden

8151604: Rely on options range checking rather than explict checks Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, drwhite, sangheki

Merge

8146551: The output from classresolve tag has been shortened and moved to debug level. Summary: The output from classresolve tag has been shortened and moved to debug level. Reviewed-by: coleenp, rprotacio

Merge

8151265: Add a way to extend UL tags Reviewed-by: dholmes, kbarrett

8151304: Remove unused develop options(ClearInterpreterLocals and others) Reviewed-by: coleenp, jwilhelm

Merge

8151605: Change warning() to log_warning(gc) in the GC code Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa

8151602: Remove logging from refillLinearAllocBlockIfNeeded() Reviewed-by: tschatzl, sjohanss

8151603: Use error stream instead of tty for logging before ShouldNotReachHere() Reviewed-by: mgerdin, sjohanss

8151633: Don't keep copies of the survivor lists and counts in the G1CollectorPolicy Reviewed-by: tbenson, tschatzl

Merge

8150952: Net PLAB size is clipped to max PLAB size as a whole, not on a per thread basis Summary: Bound PLAB size when handing out PLAB sizes, not before. Reviewed-by: drwhite, jwilhelm

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