Summary: simplify save/restore frame on x86 systems which support EVEX.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

8133646: Internal Error: x86/vm/macroAssembler_x86.cpp:886 DEBUG MESSAGE: StubRoutines::call_stub: threads must correspond
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, dcubed

Summary: Use BarrierSet::CardTableForRS where needed, and update concrete bs tags.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa

Summary: add more support for EVEX encoding
Reviewed-by: kvn, neliasso

Summary: Add montgomeryMultiply intrinsics
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Add intrinsics for BigInteger squareToLen and mulAdd methods.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: michael.c.berg@intel.com

Summary: replace Vzeroupper instruction in stubs with zeroing only used ymm registers.
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: sandhya.viswanathan@intel.com

Summary: Remove all case statements specifying G1SATBCT
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, kbarrett

Summary: Add FakeRttiSupport utility and use to provide barrier_set_cast.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, sangheki

Summary: Use the native cmpxchgb instruction on x86.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kbarrett, phh
Contributed-by: erik.osterlund@lnu.se

Summary: Add new C2 intrinsic for BigInteger::multiplyToLen() on x86 in 64-bit VM.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: Add intrinsics/stub routines support for single-block and multi-block (as used by Cipher Block Chaining mode) AES encryption and decryption operations on the SPARC platform.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@oracle.com

8016729: ObjectAlignmentInBytes=16 now forces the use of heap based compressed oops
8005933: The -Xshare:auto option is ignored for -server
Summary: Move klass metaspace above the heap and support CDS with compressed klass ptrs.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, mgerdin, tschatzl, stefank

Summary: remove StubRoutines::x86::_mxcsr_std and use StubRoutines::_mxcsr_std
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: add intrinsics using new instruction to interpreter, C1, C2, for suitable x86; add test
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Implement Safefetch as stub routines. This reduces compiler and os dependencies.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: jeremymanson@google.com, calvin.cheung@oracle.com

Summary: Changed gen_write_ref_array_post_barrier() code on x64 to pass start address and number of copied oop elements. In generate_checkcast_copy() skip post barrier code if no elements are copied.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: Execute vzeroupper instruction after JNI call and on exits in jit compiled code which use 256bit vectors.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: Use YMM registers in arraycopy and array_fill stubs.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: Enable AES intrinsics on non-AVX cpus, group together aes instructions in crypto stubs.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp

Summary: Use new x86 AES instructions for AESCrypt.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, roland
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: NJohn Rose &lt;john.r.rose@oracle.com&gt;, Christian Thalinger &lt;christian.thalinger@oracle.com&gt;, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

Summary: use x87 instructions to implement exp() and pow() in interpreter/c1/c2.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti

Summary: check stack alignment on VM entry on x64.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: oop map needs pc stored in frame anchor in StubGenerator::generate_throw_exception()
Reviewed-by: twisti, never, kvn

Summary: unaligned stack in throw_NullPointerException_at_call_entry().
Reviewed-by: twisti, never, kvn

Summary: GC crash for explicit stack overflow checks after a C2I transition.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never
Contributed-by: yang02.wang@sap.com, bertrand.delsart@oracle.com

Summary: Moved sizeof(klassOopDesc), changed the return type to ByteSize and removed the _in_bytes suffix.
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart, coleenp, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

7110489: C1: 64-bit tiered with ForceUnreachable: assert(reachable(src)) failed: Address should be reachable
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, bdelsart