Reviewed-by: tbell, kvn, phh

Summary: Update the HS17 build number to 04
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: Removed the assert: UseSerialGC is not necessarily always set when serial gc is being used.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, jmasa, tonyp

Reviewed-by: darcy
Contributed-by: jjb@google.com

Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: chegar

6879463: (file) DirectoryStream#iterator's remove method throws wrong exception when stream is closed
Reviewed-by: sherman

Reviewed-by: ohair

Reviewed-by: ohair

6889757: G1: enable card mark elision for initializing writes from compiled code (ReduceInitialCardMarks)
Summary: Defer the (compiler-elided) card-mark upon a slow-path allocation until after the store  and before the next subsequent safepoint; G1 now answers yes to can_elide_tlab_write_barriers().
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kvn, never

Reviewed-by: darcy
Contributed-by: aph@redhat.com

Summary: Replace call to PolicyFile.canonPath with its own implementation
Reviewed-by: alanb, mullan