Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Replace uninitialised pointer with NULL at argument.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: acorn, kvn

Reviewed-by: iveresov, roland, kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti, azeemj

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Ensure the thread is in correct state; rewrote test in Java
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Removed stray includes and some minor cleanup of GenerationSizer
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jcoomes

Summary: Remove a few redundant switch-statements
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, tschatzl

Summary: add replace_in_map() calls following some null checks in type checks
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

8012525: gc/metaspace/G1AddMetaspaceDependency.java Test fails a safepoint timeout assertion or hangs.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: stefank, tschatzl

Summary: Uses stack for the format buffer instead of resource memory
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, bharadwaj, minqi

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jwilhelm, jmasa

8025441: G1: assert "assert(thread < _num_vtimes) failed: just checking" fails when G1ConcRefinementThreads > ParallelGCThreads
Summary: The initialization for the remembered set summary data structures used the wrong thread count, i.e. number of worker threads instead of number of refinement threads.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

Summary: Enable patching for load_appendix_id.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dlong, bdelsart

8025260: Methodhandles/JSR292: NullPointerException (NPE) thrown instead of AbstractMethodError (AME)
Summary: Copied null-checks from templateInterpreter_CPU into methodHandles_CPU
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
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