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

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

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

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, iignatyev
Contributed-by: kirill.shirokov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, sla

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

Summary: Relax the guaranty for deleted methods
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: The fix removes all UseNewReflection/ReflectionWrapResolutionErrors occurrences/logic and adds them into the list of obsolete_jvm_flags in arguments.cpp.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel
Contributed-by: ygaevsky@azulsystems.com

Summary: Repaired or selectively disabled offending formats; future-proofed with additional checking
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, stefank

Reviewed-by: twisti, stefank

Summary: Refactor stringTable class out of symbolTable, making sure all includes are minimal set and are sorted.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, stefank, twisti

Summary: The EnableInvokeDynamic flag and all support code is removed because it is not longer used in JDK 9.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NTobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: mgronlun, kamg

Reviewed-by: dholmes, jcoomes, kvn

8033150: invokestatic: IncompatibleClassChangeError trying to invoke static method from a parent in presence of conflicting defaults.
Summary: A static method should be preferred during method resolution over an overpass, search the current class as well as its superclasses.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, kamg

Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes, gtriantafill

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Added support for target buffer in as_utf8_string(), minor refactoring of as_utf8 and added some internal VM testing
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dsimms, sla, dholmes
Contributed-by: marcus.larsson@oracle.com

Summary: Add reallocate functionality to ArrayAllocator and use it from BitMap::resize
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Windows need an exception wrapper around getPsrInfo_stub() call in order to properly handle SEGV for YMM registers test.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, iignatyev

Reviewed-by: morris, kvn

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn, iignatyev
Contributed-by: filipp.zhinkin@oracle.com

8029186: regression-hotspot nightly failure: assert(FLAG_IS_DEFAULT(MaxNewSize) || MaxNewSize < MaxHeapSize) failed
Summary: Cleaned up the collector policy and added more asserts to enforce that the heap is correctly setup.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa

8036630: Null ProtectionDomain in JVM can cause NPE because principals field is not initialized to an empty array
Summary: Call ProtectionDomain constructor instead of making all fields null.
Reviewed-by: fparain, zgu

Summary: Relax assert in the post_class_unload for the CMS case
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dsamersoff
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: fix object lock recursion count and add test
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: It is more safe to get/update data for suspended threads at a safepoint
Reviewed-by: dcubed, twisti, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Change the code cache remembered sets data structure from a GrowableArray to a chunked list of nmethods. This makes the data structure more amenable to parallelization, and decreases freeing time.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso

Reviewed-by: sla, zgu

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp

Summary: Moved the test code inside INCLUDE_ALL_GCS
Reviewed-by: dholmes, stefank

4505697: nsk/jdi/ExceptionEvent/_itself_/exevent006 and exevent008 tests fail with InvocationTargetException
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, sspitsyn

8034867: Object references from expression stack are not visible as roots via jvmti FollowReferences and HeapDump
Summary: The heap walking is inconsistent without following references from expression stack, so need to fix it
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: axel.siebenborn@sap.com

Summary: Collect data at safepoint, do not rely on thread suspension
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp