For current soft-ref clearing policies, we can decide at marking time if a soft-reference will definitely not be cleared, postponing the decision of whether it will definitely be cleared to the final reference processing phase. This can be especially beneficial in the case of concurrent collectors where the marking is usually concurrent but reference processing is usually not.
Reviewed-by: jmasa
Fixed the incorrect assigment to G1OffsetTableContigSpace::_gc_time_stamp. Also added a little more paranoia to operations on a global timestamp.
Reviewed-by: tonyp
Do not coalesce dead and moved objects when removing self-forwarding pointers during the evacuation failure. Also fixed a issue in a BOT refinement code for TLABs.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, jcoomes