Summary: Fix about 440 typos in comments in the VM code
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, tschatzl, coleenp, kmo, jcoomes

Summary: Refactor the strong root processing to avoid using a boolean in addition to the ScanOption enum.
Reviewed-by: stefank, tschatzl, ehelin, jmasa

8020277: Young GC could be extremely slow due to assertion in ObjectStartArray::object_starts_in_range
8009462: Young GC's (ParNewGC and SerialGC) have unexpected variances.
Summary: Removed the assertion slowing down GC.
Reviewed-by: stefank, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: stefank, tschatzl, jwilhelm

Summary: Remove the above mentioned template parameter and related unused code. Also remove some classes that are never used.
Reviewed-by: stefank, mgerdin, jwilhelm

8027454: Do not traverse string table during G1 remark when treating them as strong roots during initial mark
Summary: Do not try to unlink string table entries unconditionally during remark. This is without side effects as the preceding initial mark always uses the string table as strong roots. Needs to be fixed with class unloading during concurrent mark.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

8027455: Improve symbol table scan times during gc pauses
Summary: Parallelize string table and symbol table scan during remark and full GC. Some additional statistics output if the experimental flag G1TraceStringSymbolTableScrubbing is set.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, brutisso

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

Summary: Avoid verifying dependencies multiple times by caching verified dependencies
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, roland

Summary: Add intrinsics/stub routines support for single-block and multi-block (as used by Cipher Block Chaining mode) AES encryption and decryption operations on the SPARC platform.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@oracle.com

Summary: Changed makefile to use generic mapfile for non Darwin BSDs
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

8031059: invokestatic: ICCE trying to invoke static method when it clashes with an abstract method inherited from an interface
Summary: Do not create AME overpass if there is a matching static method
Reviewed-by: lfoltan, coleenp, kamg

8028398: [TESTBUG]: test/runtime/memory/ReadFromNoaccessArea.java failed with EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Summary: Remove ignore label
Reviewed-by: sla, mseledtsov
Contributed-by: george.triantafillou@oracle.com

Summary: c1 and interpreter support for new type profiling on sparc
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8030662: "assert(counter_changed) failed: failed dependencies, but counter didn't change" still fails
Summary: Erroneously removed call to SystemDictionary::notice_modification() from jvmti with fix for 8029383
Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti, kvn

8028764: dtrace/hotspot_jni/ALL/ALL001 crashes the vm on Solaris-amd64, SIGSEGV in MarkSweep::follow_stack()+0x8a
Summary: C1 generates code to encode compressed oop into tmp register before runtime call for patching where GC may happen
Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: Nmgerdin <mikael.gerdin@oracle.com>

Summary: Fix the assert check for narrow klass pointer.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Re-enabled the test. The issue that prevents this test from running was fixed by 8020675
Reviewed-by: sla, ccheung

Summary: Adding VM.dynlibs as a dcmd to dump all loaded dynamic libraries.
Reviewed-by: sla, fparain, mgronlun, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Use atomic operations to provide sequential compilation IDs
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: added the '-m32' compile option and the '-z noexecstack' link option
Reviewed-by: mseledtsov, zgu

Summary: VM needs to handle EXCEPTION_FLT_* exceptions on Win64
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8011391: C1: assert(code_offset() - offset == NativeInstruction::nop_instruction_size) failed: only one instruction can go in a delay slot
Summary: Remove the VerifyOopMaps flag which doesn't work for tiered or for C1 with more compiler threads than one.
Reviewed-by: twisti, drchase, iveresov

Summary: Allow dump and replay inlining for specified method during a program execution.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, jbachorik, egahlin, mgronlun

8029446: assert(_cfg.get_block_for_node(proj) == borig) failed: incorrect block for kill projections
Summary: Added loadConP0 projection node to block in case of re-materialization of the loadConP0. x86_64 only.
Reviewed-by: kvn