Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Restore original null checks.
Reviewed-by: never, cfang

Summary: Use -y zip option to preserve symbolic links.
Reviewed-by: never, jcoomes, kamg

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, cfang, twisti

Summary: PhiNode::Ideal() should return TOP for Phi node with no users.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Restore the original code: uint i = _hi_degree.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com

Summary: Update the HS17 build number to 03
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: To break spill ties choose bound live range over unbound to free register or one with smaller cost to spill.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Fix problem with the double register encodings in sparc.ad
Reviewed-by: never, jrose
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: For signatures with a large number of arguments the offset for the float store becomes too big and does not fit in 13-bit.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Modify operand passed to C1 pre-barrier to be the operand representing the address of the object field that is being stored.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions for JTreg tests (on a product build) to pass with DeoptimizeALot
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Avoid ideal transformation ping-pong between AddPNode::Ideal() and CastX2PNode::Ideal().
Reviewed-by: cfang

Summary: Update the HS17 build number to 02
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: never, ysr, acorn

Summary: After mechanically merging changes, some by-hand adjustments are needed.
Reviewed-by: ysr

Summary: Removed the unnecessary #ifdef's which were interfering with the build of the Zero-assembler port
Reviewed-by: ysr, jcoomes

Summary: remove over locking by VMThread on "is thread suspended?" check
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, andrew

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009 through Septermber
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Summary: Fix races in jmethodID cache and JNI itable index cache.
Reviewed-by: ikrylov, acorn

Summary: Add missing instance_id meet.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kamg, dcubed