Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Fixed NMT that miscounted arena memory when it is used as value or stack object.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp

Summary: Allows NMT to report that JNI thread failed to detach from JVM before exiting, which leaks the JavaThread object when check:jni option is on.
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, coleenp, ctornqvi

Summary: Change types of above methods and field to InstanceKlass and remove unneeded casts from the source files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

8001591: NMT: assertion failed: assert(rec->addr() + rec->size() <= cur->base()) failed: Can not overlap in memSnapshot.cpp
Summary: NMT should allow overlapping committed regions as long as they belong to the same reserved region
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: The old function not defined properly, need a definition for export in dll. Also changes made to let new jvm work with old hsdis.
Reviewed-by: jrose, sspitsyn, kmo
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, kmo

Summary: Use verifier_max_size instead of max_size to get code attribute max stack size.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, minqi
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Removes the two unused functions GenericTaskQueueSet::steal_1_random and GenericTaskQueueSet::steal_best_of_all
Reviewed-by: brutisso, stefank
Contributed-by: erik.x.helin@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: johnc, jcoomes, ysr

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Fix the incorrect links in jvmti.html reported by the LinkCheck tool
Reviewed-by: jjh, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, twisti
Contributed-by: NRoman Kennke <rkennke@redhat.com>

Summary: Added missed check that Load node is in processed loop block.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: In case of time or iterations limit reached C2 stops EA and continue compilation without EA as it does in product VM already.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Disable -XX:+UseLargePages for MacOS X
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Remove support for the UseVectoredExceptions flag
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kamg
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: johnc, tamao

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

Summary: do vector right shift operation for small int types only after loads
Reviewed-by: jrose, dlong

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: perform transforms during IGVN phase when Load has a single user.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti

Summary: Enhanced virtual memory tracking to track committed regions as well as reserved regions, so NMT now can generate virtual memory map.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp

Summary: Allow which vector rules are supported to be decided at runtime. Also a small change to allow vector types in Type::_type_info[] to apply to more platforms.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: dean.long@oracle.com

Summary: Added code to write the value of the java.class.path property to the hs_err file.
Reviewed-by: kmo, dholmes, kvn
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: The -XX:+UseVMInterruptibleIO flag is deprecated for JDK8.  The flag will still enable Interruptible IO on Solaris, but users will get a warning.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, alanb
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Add simple check in debug version of VM.
Reviewed-by: twisti, johnc

8000623: tools/javac/Diagnostics/6769027/T6769027.java crashes in PSPromotionManager::copy_to_survivor_space
Summary: Fix type of method pointer load from vtable.
Reviewed-by: twisti, johnc, roland

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

Summary: Restore non-silent output of heap verification.
Reviewed-by: ysr, brutisso, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Remove unneeded assert.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, coleenp

Summary: Add generic type analysis and default method selection algorithms
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: code generated by c1 for getClass intrinsic broken when klass field is loaded on 64bit with compressed klass off.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: several changes to adlc to improve its usability
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

Summary: Treat the oops in invoke_method_table() as strong roots when ClassUnloading is enabled.
Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

Summary: Removed LoadUI2L node from Ideal nodes, use match rule in .ad files instead.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti