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

8023697: failed class resolution reports different class name in detail message for the first and subsequent times
Summary: Cache detail message when we cache exception for constant pool resolution.
Reviewed-by: acorn, twisti, jrose

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: coleenp, ehelin

Summary: profiling code in interpreter broken when argument profiling is off.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, 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

Summary: Keep class in CLD::_klasses list and mirror created for CDS classes if OOM during restore_shareable_info(). This keeps pointers consistent for CMS.
Reviewed-by: ehelin, stefank, jmasa, iklam

Summary: remove speculative traps that point to methods that are redefined
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: make PrintMethodData a diagnostic options for performance investigation
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: feed profiling data about reference nullness to type speculation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Use RTM for inflated locks and stack locks.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti, roland, dcubed

8012125: Comments for ConstantPoolCache should reflect the addition of resolved_references in ConstantPool
Summary: Updated comments in metadata header files, and renamed this_oop variables to this_cp or this_k when referring to constant pool or classes.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

8035841: assert(dp_src->tag() == dp_dst->tag()) failed: should be same tags 1 != 0 at ciMethodData.cpp:90
Summary: concurrent update of traps with construction of ciMethodData
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Call is_metadata instead which does less work for the call in debugInfo.hpp which is called for all compiled code stack frames.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, dcubed

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, pliden

Reviewed-by: dcubed, mgronlun

8031752: Failed speculative optimizations should be reattempted when root of compilation is different
Summary: support for speculative traps that keep track of the root of the compilation in which a trap occurs.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Remove search in system dictionary and hacks, replace with verifying in CLD::_klasses list.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn

Summary: remove_osr_nmethod doesn't check that it is the correct method
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: AltHashing used jint the way of juint in bit shifting which could lead loss of precision. Fix  by change _seed defined as juint.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Restoring bytecodes for invokedynamic had wrong index calculation added testing stress option.
Reviewed-by: twisti, hseigel

Summary: Clean up initialization from Threads::create_vm() so that exceptions cause vm_exit_during_initialzation without an exception mark.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, hseigel

Summary: Fix about 440 typos in comments in the VM code
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, tschatzl, coleenp, kmo, jcoomes

Summary: Just read the source element once
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ahgross

Summary: Metaspace::contains cannot look at purged metaspaces while CMS concurrently deallocates them.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, sspitsyn, jmasa

Summary: Copyright year updated for files modified during 2013
Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

Summary: Create AME overpass methods and fix method search logic
Reviewed-by: kamg, acorn, lfoltan, coleenp

Summary: replace test condition with reference to the proper predicate, encode folk wisdom into an assert
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp

Summary: Reducing the number of calls to follow_class_loader to speed up the marking phase. Also removed some unnecessary calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: hseigel, lfoltan, coleenp

Summary: memory ordering fixes in GC and other runtime code showing on PPC64.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Catch missing-because-illegal case for itable entries and use an exception-throwing method instead of null.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jrose, coleenp

Summary: Add verification to check that invokespecial of an InterfaceMethodref names a method in a direct superinterface of the current class or interface in accordance with JSR 335, JVMS 4.9.2 Structural Constraints.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel, coleenp
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Reduced the number of calls to follow_class_loader and instead marked and pushed the klass holder directly. Also removed unneeded calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, mgerdin, tschatzl

Summary: fix CPP-interpreter after CheckUnhandledOops was re-enabled in the fastdebug build
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, lfoltan