8036025: Sort the freelist in order to shrink the heap Summary: The free list is being maintained in a sorted fashion and old and humongous regions are allocated from the bottom of the heap while young regions are allocated at the top. Reviewed-by: tschatzl, mgerdin Contributed-by: jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com, staffan.friberg@oracle.com

8036703: Add trace event with statistics for the metaspace chunk free lists Reviewed-by: stefank, mgerdin, coleenp, egahlin

8036701: Add trace event when a metaspace throws out of memory error Reviewed-by: stefank, mgerdin

8036699: Add trace event when a metaspace allocation fails Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank

8037495: Remove platform specific specification of SurvivorRatio for BSD Reviewed-by: mgerdin, stefank

8037510: CMM Testing: Check Min/MaxHeapFreeRatio flags allows to shrink the heap when using ParallelGC Summary: Added tests for Min/MaxHeapFreeRatio flags Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, tschatzl Contributed-by: andrey.x.zakharov@oracle.com

8036698: Add trace event for updates to metaspace gc threshold Reviewed-by: stefank, mgerdin

8036696: Add metaspace gc threshold to metaspace summary trace event Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, mgerdin

8036673: G1: Abort weak reference processing if mark stack overflows Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

8036672: G1: alloc_purpose in copy_to_survivor_space() used incorrectly Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Merge

Merge

8037407: G1: Remove heapRegionSets.cpp Reviewed-by: tschatzl, pliden

8036860: Pad and cache-align the BiasedMappedArray Summary: Pad and cache-align BiasedMappedArray instances by default to avoid performance variability problems due to false sharing, as instances of this data structures are typically used for performance sensitive code. Reviewed-by: brutisso, stefank

8035330: Remove G1ParScanPartialArrayClosure and G1ParScanHeapEvacClosure Summary: Mentioned closures are actually wrapped methods. This adds confusion to readers, and in this case also increases code size as G1ParScanHeapEvacClosure is part of the oop_oop_iterate() methods. Move them into G1ParScanThreadState as methods. Reviewed-by: stefank

8034868: Extract G1 From Card Cache into separate class Summary: Refactor the From Card Cache into a separate class. Reviewed-by: jmasa

8035654: Add times for evacuation failure handling in "Other" time Summary: Detailed breakdown of time spent in the evacuation failure handling phases to make the "Other" time roughly correspond to the sum of its parts. Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa

8035398: Add card redirty time in "Other" time in G1 Summary: Show the time taken by card redirtying during GC in a new "Redirty Cards" line. Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso

8027295: Free CSet takes ~50% of young pause time Summary: Improve fast card cache iteration and avoid taking locks when freeing the collection set. Reviewed-by: brutisso

8035815: Cache-align and pad the from card cache Summary: The from card cache is a very frequently accessed data structure. It is essentially a 2d array of per-region values, one row of values for every GC thread. Pad and align the data structure to avoid false sharing. Reviewed-by: stefank

8035406: Improve data structure for Code Cache remembered sets Summary: Change the code cache remembered sets data structure from a GrowableArray to a chunked list of nmethods. This makes the data structure more amenable to parallelization, and decreases freeing time. Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso

8034079: G1: Refactor the HeapRegionSet hierarchy Reviewed-by: tschatzl, pliden

Merge

8036630: Null ProtectionDomain in JVM can cause NPE because principals field is not initialized to an empty array Summary: Call ProtectionDomain constructor instead of making all fields null. Reviewed-by: fparain, zgu

6976636: JVM/TI test ex03t001 fails assertion Summary: Relax assert in the post_class_unload for the CMS case Reviewed-by: dcubed, dsamersoff Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

8025550: valgrind: Conditional jump depends on uninitialised value in Arena::set_size_in_bytes() Summary: Fixed initialized variable that could miscount arena memory Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung

Merge

6536943: Bogus -Xcheck:jni warning for SIG_INT action for SIGINT in JVM started from non-interactive shell Summary: Under non-interactive shell, with -Xcheck:jni, check_signal_handler will print out Warning for SHURDOWN2_SIGNAL (SIGINT) which is replaced by non-interactive shell. Fix by supply more information of the replacement to user. Reviewed-by: acorn, dsamersoff Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

8036128: Remove deprecated VM flag UseVMInterruptibleIO Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, dcubed, coleenp

8026154: [TESTBUG] runtime/CDSCompressedKPtrs/XShareAuto.java failed due to exception Summary: Added statements in the tests to handle failures in sharing Reviewed-by: zgu, ctornqvi

8033926: Update hotspot/make/jprt.properties to use jdk 9 instead of jdk 8 Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes

Added tag jdk9-b07 for changeset f00a1292f3ab