Reviewed-by: sla, ctornqvi, lfoltan, mchung, alanb
Contributed-by: alexander.kulyakhtin@oracle.com

Summary: Validate during argument processing and simplify usage by assuming validated.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: kvn, tschatzl, ctornqvi

Reviewed-by: iveresov

Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Moved Whitebox test library to top level repository.
Reviewed-by: iignatyev, sla, mr

Reviewed-by: jmasa, dfazunen

Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Tests that UseNUMAInterleaving enabled for all collectors by ergonomics, on all platforms when UseNUMA feature is enabled.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, dfazunen
Contributed-by: andrey.x.zakharov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: ehelin, brutisso

Summary: Ergonomics updates flags for number of GC threads
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: ehelin, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov, sla

Reviewed-by: kvn, iignatyev, mgerdin
Contributed-by: andrey.x.zakharov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, stefank

Reviewed-by: sjohanss, jmasa

Reviewed-by: jmasa, sjohanss

Reviewed-by: ehelin, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: jmasa, ehelin, jwilhelm
Contributed-by: dmitry.fazunenko@oracle.com

Summary: Adapt InitialTenuringThreshold and MaxTenuringThreshold according to AlwaysTenure/NeverTenure flag setting.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl

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

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl, sjohanss

7057939: jmap shows MaxNewSize=4GB when Java is using parallel collector
Summary: Major cleanup of the collectorpolicy classes
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jcoomes

Summary: Using strtod() instead of atof() when parsing -Xminf and -Xmaxf.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, pliden

Summary: Fix compilation error and use of an outdated VM option in the test
Reviewed-by: stefank, jwilhelm

8024396: VM crashing with assert(!UseLargePages || UseParallelOldGC || use_large_pages) failed: Wrong alignment to use large pages
Summary: Loosen wrong assert for UseParallelOldGC to UseParallelGC
Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso

Summary: Use conservative assumptions of required alignment for the various garbage collector components into account when determining the maximum heap size that supports compressed oops. Using this conservative value avoids several circular dependencies in the calculation.
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgerdin, hseigel

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Summary: The auto corrector for mistyped vm options fuzzy-matches existing flags based on string similarity (Dice's coefficient).
Reviewed-by: kvn, dsamersoff, hseigel, johnc

Reviewed-by: brutisso

8014765: VM exits if MaxTenuringThreshold is set below the default InitialTenuringThreshold, and InitialTenuringThreshold is not set
Summary: The VM exits when the condition in the subject line applies. The fix sets InitialTenuringThreshold to MaxTenuringThreshold if it is larger than MaxTenuringThreshold and InitialTenuringThreshold has not been set (is default).
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, brutisso, johnc

8014489: tests/gc/arguments/Test(Serial|CMS|Parallel|G1)HeapSizeFlags jtreg tests invoke wrong class
Summary: Some jtreg tests reference unknown classes in the @run and @build lines. This change fixes them.
Reviewed-by: stefank, ehelin

Summary: The patch for 8006088 misses regression tests after a merge error, this CR provides them.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, tamao, jmasa