Summary: Make frame layout consistent between dbg and product build and implement offsets accordingly.
Reviewed-by: goetz, gromero

Reviewed-by: coleenp, rkennke

Reviewed-by: eosterlund, goetz

Summary: Remove frame.inline.hpp,etc from header files and adjust transitive includes.
Reviewed-by: stefank, stuefe

Reviewed-by: psandoz, dsamersoff

Summary: Fix the data types of pd flags.
Reviewed-by: mdoerr

Reviewed-by: goetz, lucy

Reviewed-by: darcy, ihse

Summary: Make an OopHandle type to replace jobject to encapsulate these oop pointers in metadata and module entry.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dholmes, jiangli, twisti

Reviewed-by: mdoerr, simonis
Contributed-by: NMatthew Brandyberry <mbrandy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Summary: Added _resolved_klasses; moved _resolved_references to ConstantPoolCache, etc.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, lfoltan, simonis, aph

Reviewed-by: mockner

Summary: Include patform files with macros cpu_header() etc. Do various cleanups of macro usages. Remove _64/_32 from adlc generated files and platform .hpp files. Merge stubRoutines_x86*.hpp. Remove empty mutex_<os>* files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, kbarrett

Reviewed-by: dlong, coleenp, mdoerr

Reviewed-by: simonis, dholmes

Reviewed-by: goetz

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mdoerr

Reviewed-by: goetz

Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, aph

Summary: Convert Method::_intrinsic_id from u1 to u2 to expand id range over 255.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam, jiangli
Contributed-by: aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com

Summary: LogTouchedMethods causes the template interpreter to generate profiling code even if no compiler is used. If TieredCompilation is off, code containing an assertion that checks that UseCompiler is set, is reached. This assertion exists on the sparc and ppc platforms.
Reviewed-by: simonis, iklam, minqi
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

Summary: Power 8 recognition and instructions, math.*Exact intrinsics and rtm, C2 optimizations
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis

Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, tschatzl

Summary: Fix bug in encoding of special purpose registers. Provide more convenient version of condition register logic instructions. Enhance support for hardware transactional memory.
Reviewed-by: kvn, goetz

Reviewed-by: roland, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Removed 'InvalidOSREntryBci' and checking nmethod::_state instead to determine if an osr method is non-entrant.
Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov, drchase

Reviewed-by: kvn, goetz
Contributed-by: asmundak@google.com

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: kvn, coleenp
Contributed-by: axel.siebenborn@sap.com, martin.doerr@sap.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: With this change the HotSpot core build works on Linux/PPC64. The VM succesfully executes simple test programs.
Reviewed-by: kvn