Repurpose the existing flag G1PrintRegionLivenessInfo to print out the liveness distribution across the regions in the heap at the end of marking.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, jwilhelm
The epochs on the card cache array are initialized to 0 and our initial epoch also starts at 0. So, until the first GC, it might be possible to successfully "claim" a card which was in fact never initialized.
Reviewed-by: johnc, iveresov, ysr
7023151: G1: refactor the code that operates on _cur_alloc_region to be re-used for allocs by the GC threads
7018286: G1: humongous allocation attempts should take the GC locker into account
First, this change replaces the asymmetric locking scheme in the G1 slow alloc path by a summetric one. Second, it factors out the code that operates on _cur_alloc_region so that it can be re-used for allocations by the GC threads in the future.
Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso, johnc
Manage allocation/freeing of the card cache counts and epochs arrays directly so that an allocation failure while attempting to expand these arrays does not abort the JVM. Failure to expand these arrays is not fatal.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp
Changed default value of WorkStealingYieldsBeforeSleep from 1000 to 5000. Added more information to G1 pause logging.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, tonyp, jmasa
