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

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

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

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: Make max classfile version number dependent on JDK version
Reviewed-by: acorn, 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: back out sa-related changes to 6652736, use concrete expressions for WKK names in the SA
Reviewed-by: never, sundar

Summary: Forward port of Yumin's fix for 6670684 from HSX-11; Yumin verified the port was correct.
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: combine many scalar variables into a single enum-indexed array in SystemDictionary.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Need to subtract MaxPermSize from the total heap size when determining whether compressed oops is turned on.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes, kvn

Summary: NUMA-aware allocator port to Linux
Reviewed-by: jmasa, apetrusenko

Summary: 64-bits VM crashes with -XX:+AggresiveOpts (Escape Analysis + Compressed Oops)
Reviewed-by: never, sgoldman

Summary: Initial checkin of JSDT code
Reviewed-by: acorn, sbohne

Summary: Protected contraints should only be applied if member is not static
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold

Summary: Stack allocated VM_EnableBiasedLocking op must be marked as such
Reviewed-by: xlu, acorn, never, dholmes

Summary: Stack allocated VM_EnableBiasedLocking op must be marked as such
Reviewed-by: xlu, acorn, never, dholmes

Summary: Rewrite frame::safe_for_sender and friends to be safe for collector/analyzer
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kvn

Summary: add null checks
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: remove old private plugin interface, simplify, rework old plugin to use unchanged Gnu sources
Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

Summary: Relocking of a thread-local object during deoptimization is broken
Reviewed-by: kbr, jrose, never

6539517: CR 6186200 should be extended to perm gen allocation to prevent spurious OOM's from perm gen
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

Summary: Use CVTDQ2PS and CVTDQ2PD for integer values conversions to float and double values on new AMD cpu.
Reviewed-by: sgoldman, never

Summary: Remove -XX:+CacheTimeMillis option and associated functionality
Reviewed-by: acorn, never

6634032: CMS: Need CMSInitiatingPermOccupancyFraction for perm, divorcing from CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction
Summary: The option CMSInitiatingPermOccupancyFraction now controls perm triggering threshold. Even though the actual value of the threshold has not yet been changed, so there is no change in policy, we now have the infrastructure in place for dynamically deciding when to collect the perm gen, an issue that will be addressed in the near future.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Current EA code has several problems which have to be fixed.
Reviewed-by: jrose, sgoldman

Summary: Use instanceKlass::method_with_idnum() instead of slot() to work with RedefineClasses().
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn

Summary: (for Serguei) Clean up use of No_Safepoint_Verifier in JVM TI
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: Mangling the unused space is having an adverse affect on testing with fastdebug builds so turn it off by default.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Deoptimization code for reallocation and relocking scalar replaced objects has to be fixed.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: Enqueue VM_EnableBiasedLocking operation asynchronously
Reviewed-by: never, xlu, kbr, acorn

Summary: Default values set by cms ergonomics are set with FLAG_SET_DEFAULT so down stream the values look like the default values and affect how later parameters are set.  Set these values with FLAG_SET_ERGO instead and adjust how later parameters are interpreted.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, apetrusenko, pbk, ysr