Requesting approval to integrate hs24-b37 into jdk7u14-b18.
A webrev is available at: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~amurillo/7u14/hs24-b37-jdk7u14-b18.webrev/ Pre-integration testing is in progress; the integration will proceed only after SQE has analyzed the results and approved. The fixes in the proposed integration are below. All have undergone nightly testing and are already in a jdk8 repository. 8008257: NMT: assert(new_rec->is_allocation_record()) failed when running with shared memory option 8008790: Promotion failed tracing event for all GCs 8008918: Reference statistics events for the tracing framework 8009232: Improve stats gathering code for reference processor 8010084: Race in runtime/NMT/BaselineWithParameter.java 8010103: new hotspot build - hs24-b37 8010227: Remove promotion failed boolean from YC event 8010289: PSParallelCompact::marking_phase should use instance GCTracer -- Alejandro
