Reviewed-by: lfoltan, coleenp

Summary: Add classLoader to java/lang/Class instance for fast access
Reviewed-by: alanb, lfoltan, rriggs, vlivanov, twisti, jfranck

Summary: Write klass and resolved_references constant pool fields lock free.
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Summary: Checkpoint some missed do_space_filter.ksh cleanups for Contended Locking.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, lfoltan, coleenp

Summary: Initialize host_klass while parsing the class with the other initializations.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, stefank

8046684: sharedRuntime.cpp...assert(((nmethod*)cb)->is_at_poll_or_poll_return(pc)) failed: safepoint polling: type must be poll
Summary: Emit a poll relocation for the testl in is_polling_page_far() on x86
Reviewed-by: vlivanov, roland

Summary: Clean up usage of idx_t and uintptr_t when using it in conjunction with BitMap::set_map(), casting to the appropriate type. Fixes compilation on S390.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl
Contributed-by: NDan Horak <dhorak@redhat.com>

Summary: Build system tweaks to allow building with Xcode 5 and on OS X 10.9 and later
Reviewed-by: erikj, henryjen, dholmes

Summary: Checkpoint do_space_filter.ksh cleanups for Contended Locking.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

8044742: testlibrary_tests/whitebox/vm_flags/BooleanTest.java NoClassDefFoundError: com/oracle/java/testlibrary/JDKToolFinder
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: prefer <sys/ptrace.h> over <linux/ptrace.h>
Reviewed-by: sla, mikael
Contributed-by: kim.barrett@oracle.com

Summary: Better parsing of /proc/pid/maps in sa
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, sla

Reviewed-by: brutisso, sjohanss

Summary: Enable GCC linker protections, runtime bounds checks and stack protection.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, coleenp

Summary: Added a new header waiting pattern to catch the case where the target thread waiting on a condition (like a VM op); several other test improvements
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dholmes

Summary: Added arguments_ext.cpp to make place for initialization of extended features
Reviewed-by: sla, mgronlun

Reviewed-by: erikj, dholmes

Summary: Remove pragma optimize ("", off) to turn off optimization for WIN32.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed, kvn

Summary: Place new nodes on the previous loop exit in reorg_offsets().
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: negative verify_guards when testing for corruption
Reviewed-by: sla, fparain

Summary: Add C2 SHA intrinsics on SPARC
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: james.cheng@oracle.com

Summary: Warning when not checking exceptions from function that require so, also when local refs expand beyond capacity.
Reviewed-by: zgu, coleenp, hseigel

Reviewed-by: dholmes, iignatyev
Contributed-by: dmitry.fazunenko@oracle.com

Summary: Delete old jdk specific code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu, lfoltan

Summary: Wrapped memory with standard bounds checking "GuardedMemory".
Reviewed-by: zgu, fparain, dcubed

Summary: Fixed internal_word_Relocation::target() to not retrieve target address from code if relocation points into the constant section. Added test.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, dlong

Summary: Allow several predicates and separate intrinsic methods per one intrinsified (virtual) method.
Reviewed-by: roland

8044575: testlibrary_tests/whitebox/vm_flags/UintxTest.java failed: assert(!res || TypeEntriesAtCall::arguments_profiling_enabled()) failed: no profiling of arguments
Reviewed-by: kvn, jmasa

Summary: Add check that attribute_length == 4.
Reviewed-by: fparain, coleenp, lfoltan

Summary: propagate node replacements along control flow edges to callers
Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

8033626: assert(ex_map->jvms()->same_calls_as(_exceptions->jvms())) failed: all collected exceptions must come from the same place
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: The method Runtime1::arraycopy_count_address(..) returns the address of Runtime::_oop_arraycopy_cnt instead of the the file static variable _oop_arraycopy_cnt.
Reviewed-by: roland, kvn, twisti

Summary: Add missing check for Opaque nodes from loop predicates in clone_loop().
Reviewed-by: iveresov

8046226: assert(_thread == Thread::current()) failed: thread must be current w/ -XX:+TraceDeoptimization -XX:+Verbose
Reviewed-by: twisti, dcubed, fparain

8044797: Building with clang gives: fatal error: file '...' has been modified since the precompiled header was built
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

Summary: Prevent from running with Xcomp
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Added _build_pch_file.obj to LD_FLAGS and cleaned up support for older Visual Studio versions
Reviewed-by: twisti, lfoltan, sla, kvn