6896603: CMS/GCH: collection_attempt_is_safe() ergo should use more recent data Summary: Deprecated HandlePromotionFailure, removing the ability to turn off that feature, did away with one epoch look-ahead when deciding if a scavenge is likely to fail, relying on current data. Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, poonam

6992998: CMSWaitDuration=0 causes hangs with +ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent Summary: Closed a timing hole during which concurrent full gc requests can be missed. The hole can increase the latency of the response to a full gc request by up to the value of CMSWaitDuration. If CMSWaitDuration=0 is, as currently, interpreted as an unbounded wait, suitable in certain tuning scenarios, the application can potentially hang. Made two obscure tunables, including CMSWaitDuration, manageable. Reviewed-by: jcoomes, tonyp

6991377: G1: race between concurrent refinement and humongous object allocation Summary: There is a race between the concurrent refinement threads and the humongous object allocation that can cause the concurrent refinement threads to corrupt the part of the BOT that it is being initialized by the humongous object allocation operation. The solution is to do the humongous object allocation in careful steps to ensure that the concurrent refinement threads always have a consistent view over the BOT, region contents, and top. The fix includes some very minor tidying up in sparsePRT. Reviewed-by: jcoomes, johnc, ysr

6988458: G1: assert(mr.end() <= _cm->finger()) failed: otherwise the region shouldn't be on the stack Summary: The changes from 6941395 did not clear the CMTask::_aborted_region fields when concurrent marking aborted because of overflow. As a result, the next time around we could see a memory region whose start address was above the global finger and the assertion tripped. Moved the clearing of the aborted regions to ConcurrentMark::clear_marking_state, which is executed on all of the exit paths. Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr, jmasa

6992189: G1: inconsistent base used in sparse rem set iterator Summary: The remembered set iterator for sparse tables incorrectly assumes that index 0 corresponds to the bottom of the heap, not address 0 as it is the case. Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

6990359: G1: don't push a stolen entry on the taskqueue, deal with it directly Summary: When an entry is stolen, don't push it on the task queue but process it directly. Reviewed-by: iveresov, ysr, jcoomes

Merge

6891959: HotSpot should not throw ClassFormatError if a class has a field with '>' and/or '<' in its name Summary: Class file parser needs to look for and disallow '[' in names. Reviewed-by: coleenp, never

Merge

Merge