Summary: Construct the relevant CMSIsAliveClosure used by CMS during parallel reference processing with the correct span. It had incorrectly been constructed with an empty span, a regression introduced in 6417901.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: increase class file parser's acceptable max to 51
Reviewed-by: sbohne, ikrylov

Summary: combine many scalar variables into a single enum-indexed array in SystemDictionary.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: rework Value method for ModD and ModF, to DTRT for infinities
Reviewed-by: sgoldman, kvn, rasbold

Summary: Need to subtract MaxPermSize from the total heap size when determining whether compressed oops is turned on.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes, kvn

Summary: Added a clause to allow null to be an operand to the arraylength bytecode
Reviewed-by: sbohne, coleenp

Summary: NUMA-aware allocator port to Linux
Reviewed-by: jmasa, apetrusenko

Summary: stop compilation after negative array allocation
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Move os_cpu/linux_sparc from closed to open
Reviewed-by: kamg

Summary: NeverBranchNodes aren't handled properly
Reviewed-by: kvn, sgoldman, rasbold, jrose

Summary: EA and initialization optimizations could bypass these nodes.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold, sgoldman, jrose

Summary: 64-bits VM crashes with -XX:+AggresiveOpts (Escape Analysis + Compressed Oops)
Reviewed-by: never, sgoldman