Reviewed-by: dholmes, alanb, cjplummer, olagneau
Contributed-by: NCarlos Lucasius <carlos.lucasius@oracle.com>

Summary: refactored code to allow platform-specific differences
Reviewed-by: dlong, twisti
Contributed-by: NGoetz Lindenmaier <goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com>

8012455: Missing time and date stamps for PrintGCApplicationConcurrentTime and PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime
Summary: also reviewed by: kirk@kodewerk.com, brandon@twitter.com
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, stefank, johnc

Reviewed-by: iris, mduigou, jjg

8012052: java/lang/invoke/6987555/Test6987555.java crashes with assert(mcs != NULL) failed: MethodCounters cannot be NULL.
Summary: Skip counter decay if the MethodCounters is NULL in NonTieredCompPolicy::delay_compilation().
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn, kmo, shade

Summary: add missing ResourceMark under TraceMethodHandles in LinkResolver
Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Remove continous free block requirement
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

Summary: missing #ifdef ASSERT
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Repair wrong code generation, added new matching rule
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: remove JPRT debug builds, remove -DDEBUG -DFASTDEBUG and use ASSERT instead in sources
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

8010151: nsk/regression/b6653214 fails "assert(snapshot != NULL) failed: Worker should not be started"
Summary: Fixed a racing condition when shutting down NMT while worker thread is being started, also fixed a few mis-declared volatile pointers.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong

Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Refactor the CLD dependency list into a separate class. Use an ObjectLocker to synchronize additions to the CLD dependency list.
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

Summary: loop invariant code motion may move load before store to the same field
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Allocate the method's profiling related metadata until they are needed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

8011671: JCK tests on static interface methods fail under b84: Illegal type at constant pool entry 5
Summary: Restore incorrect removal of support for static interface method verification in Java 8
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Allow task queues to be mmapped instead of malloced on Solaris
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, johnc, tschatzl

Summary: Fix memory leaks when NMT fails to initialize snapshot and worker thread
Reviewed-by: dcubed, ccheung, rdurbin

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

Summary: Add the -Wunused-function flag and remove a number of unused functions.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: roland, kvn
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

Summary: Fix shorten_branches() to accurately count an initial nop that may be inserted in a block that starts with a safepoint.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add convenience method in StringTable, add WhiteBox method and simple sanity test
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, zgu
Contributed-by: leonid.mesnik@oracle.com

Summary: Use GC_locker::is_active_and_needs_gc() instead of GC_locker::is_active() for providing information about the reason of heap expansion.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: Pass utf_length parameter to UTF8::as_quoted_ascii()
Reviewed-by: dcubed, minqi

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, tschatzl, johnc, coleenp

Summary: Move the calculation and recording of eden capacity to the start of a GC and print a detailed heap transition for full GCs.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Summary: Improve EC_TRACE and RC_TRACE* to use the do-while(0) trick for statement-like macro
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed

Summary: a simple fix to add FileList_free(fl) before returning NULL.
Reviewed-by: zgu, coleenp, minqi

Summary: Add DumpSharedSpaces to IF condition to handle verify during -Xshare:dump.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu

Summary: Tests added for Reserve/Commit/Uncommit/Unreserve operations
Reviewed-by: zgu, mgerdin

8010934: assert failure in c1_LinearScan.cpp: "asumption: non-Constant instructions have only virtual operands"
Summary: incorrect code to skip some ArrayLength instructions in LIRGenerator
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Avoid holding SystemDictionary_lock while calling Klass::remove_unshareable_info
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Summary: Supply a new flag -XX:+AssumeMP to workaround the problem. With the flag is turned on, assume VM run on MP platform so is_MP() will return true that sync calls will not skip away.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, dcubed, jmasa
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com