Summary: Add mechanism to ignore unsupported flags for a set period of time
Reviewed-by: acorn, never, coleenp

Summary: allocate alignment-sized page(s) below java heap so that memory accesses at heap_base+1page give signal and cause an implicit null check
Reviewed-by: kvn, jmasa, phh, jcoomes

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: Fixed linux make file and couple adlc code to meet the changes of gcc 4.3
Reviewed-by: kamg, igor

Summary: Set instance_id to InstanceBot for InstPtr->meet(AryPtr) when types are not related.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Remove DecodeNNode::decode() and EncodePNode::encode() methods.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: For small (1-3 bits) left long shifts in 32-bits VM use sets of add+addc instructions instead of shld+shl on new AMD cpus.
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@amd.com

Summary: This fix enables the generation of core file when process runs out of C-heap.
Reviewed-by: sbohne

Summary: verify the adr_type of a mach node was not changed
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

6714694: assertion in 64bit server vm (store->find_edge(load) != -1,"missing precedence edge") with COOPs
Summary: The method raise_LCA_above_marks() terminates LCA search early.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: ensure that GCTask threads release resource and handle memory
Reviewed-by: jmasa, chrisphi

Summary: adds JVM_FindClassFromBootLoader entry point, for jdk's use
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: Fixed the cast from char* to const char* and tried to use const char* as much as possible
Reviewed-by: never, kamg
Contributed-by: xiaobin.lu@sun.com

Summary: Add missed checks for TOP and missed checks for non-dominating cases
Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose, never

Summary: Poke String.stringCacheEnabled during vm initialization
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Expand cardtable without committing over existing regions.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

Summary: Make FreeChunk read markword instead of LSB in _klass pointer to indicate that it's a FreeChunk for compressed oops.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Summary: The fix takes care of three issues that can create a hole less a minimal object in the lgrp chunk
Reviewed-by: ysr, apetrusenko

Summary: comment out code that turns on compressed oops
Reviewed-by: never, phh

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, rasbold

6711083: 64bit JVM crashes with Internal Error (type.cpp:763) - ShouldNotReachHere() with enabled COOPs
Summary: Add NarrowOop to various xmeet routines
Reviewed-by: kvn, sgoldman, jrose, rasbold

Summary: Code in gen_subtype_check was encoding rax as an oop on a path where rax was not an oop.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: exclude UEP size from nmethod code size and use narrow klass oop to load prototype header.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: The assertion can failure due to race conditions.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: guard AryEqNode construction with has_match_rule() test, set SpecialArraysEquals default off
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Intrinsify java/util/Arrays.equals(char[], char[])
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Generate addresses and implicit null checks with narrow oops to avoid decoding.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: Update the copyrights
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: decouple set_klass() with zeroing the gap when compressed.
Reviewed-by: kvn, ysr, jrose

Summary: xsl output tag not at top level
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, rasbold
Contributed-by: gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org

Summary: Make max classfile version number dependent on JDK version
Reviewed-by: acorn, never

Summary: Use the gap also for a narrow oop field and a boxing object value.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never

6703890: Compressed Oops: add LoadNKlass node to generate narrow oops (32-bits) compare instructions
Summary: Add LoadNKlass and CMoveN nodes, use CmpN and ConN nodes to generate narrow oops compare instructions.
Reviewed-by: never, rasbold

Summary: fix several problems in C2 related to Escape Analysis and Compressed Oops.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: The method Node::dominates loops in the dead code which does not have a Region node.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never