Reviewed-by: jrose, hseigel, vlivanov, bmoloden, ctornqvi, mschoene

Reviewed-by: rprotacio

Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: NXiang Yuan &lt;xiang.yuan@linaro.org&gt;, Zoltan Majo <zoltan.majo@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: pliden

Reviewed-by: gthornbr, hseigel, mschoene
Contributed-by: gerard.ziemski@oracle.com

Summary: Emit release barrier after String creation to prevent partially initialized object from escaping.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: C2 treats x^2 as a special case and computes x * x while the interpreter and c1 don't have special case code for X^2.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Typo error referring new_acitve_workers is corrected as new_active_workers
Reviewed-by: jmasa, drwhite
Contributed-by: fairoz.matte@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: acorn, jdn
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: iklam, hseigel, acorn, mschoene

Reviewed-by: acorn, jdn
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: iklam, acorn, mschoene

Reviewed-by: iklam, acorn, mschoene

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes
Contributed-by: james.cheng@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

8055530: assert(_exits.control()->is_top() || !_gvn.type(ret_phi)->empty()) failed: return value must be well defined
Summary: concurrent class loading causes return phi to become top
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, sspitsyn, sla

Reviewed-by: hseigel

8076995: gc/ergonomics/TestDynamicNumberOfGCThreads.java failed with java.lang.RuntimeException: 'new_active_workers' missing from stdout/stderr
Reviewed-by: jmasa, drwhite

Reviewed-by: jmasa, kbarrett, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel, mschoene

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: kbarrett, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Adding missing check for valid oop.
Reviewed-by: dcubed
Contributed-by: NShafi Ahmad <shafi.s.ahmad@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr

Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr

Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: stuefe, coleenp, roland

Summary: gcc expects clean 32 bit int in 64 bit register on function entry
Reviewed-by: kvn, dlong

8149367: PolicyQualifierInfo/index_Ctor JCk test fails with IOE: Invalid encoding for PolicyQualifierInfo
Summary: fix incorrect code
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, kevinw, ahgross

8149367: PolicyQualifierInfo/index_Ctor JCk test fails with IOE: Invalid encoding for PolicyQualifierInfo
Summary: fix incorrect code
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, kevinw, ahgross

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, coleenp, dcubed

Summary: Add intrinsics for BigInteger squareToLen and mulAdd methods.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose