Summary: This patch addresses an alignment trap due to the storage format of method parameters data in constMethod.  It also adds code to validate constant pool indexes for method parameters data.
Reviewed-by: jrose, dholmes
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

Summary: HotSpot changes to support @Contended annotation.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, jrose
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: Moved NMT shutdown code to JVM exit handler to ensure NMT statistics is printed when PrintNMTStatistics is enabled
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, coleenp

Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael, rasbold
Contributed-by: NJeremy Manson <jeremymanson@google.com>

Summary: Instead of passing in last_entry to all the VM_ macros just expand it in the main vmStructs.cpp file.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, minqi

Summary: Reduce scope of placeholder table entries to improve cleanup
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Added JRE/JDK bin directories to decoder's symbol search path
Reviewed-by: dcubed, sla

Summary: Fix verifier for new interface access flags
Reviewed-by: acorn, kvn
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com

Summary: Count number of instance classes so that it matches class metadata size
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: Add hotspot support for parameter reflection
Reviewed-by: acorn, jrose, coleenp
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

Summary: Save the alignment when writing the CDS and compare it when reading the CDS.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Map memory only once to prevent 'already mapped' failures.
Reviewed-by: acorn, zgu

8005494: SIGSEGV in Rewriter::relocate_and_link() when testing Weblogic with CompressedOops and KlassPtrs
Summary: Relocate functions with jsr's when rewriting so not repeated after reading shared archive
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NMorris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>

Summary: Fix java names for getAndSet intrinsics
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: joel.franck@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso, kvn, ctornqvi
Contributed-by: erik.helin@oracle.com

Summary: Added missing exception path for multidimensional array allocation and use Throwable type instead of OutOfMemoryError for allocation's exception.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Enable AES intrinsics on non-AVX cpus, group together aes instructions in crypto stubs.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NRichard Reingruber <richard.reingruber@sap.com>

Summary: Phase 2 is removing '_g' support from the Runtime code.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp, hseigel
Contributed-by: ron.durbin@oracle.com

Summary: Add three memory-ordering intrinsics to the sun.misc.Unsafe class.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NMorris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>

Summary: Make the load of TLS._osthread._interrupted flag in Thread.isInterrupted(Z)Z intrinsic effectively volatile.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: collection of small changes to prepare for incremental inlining.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn