Summary: Complete support for 8132051 on Zero and fix failure on 64-bit big-endian systems
Reviewed-by: andrew, chrisphi, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Check for failed expansion of stub section in code buffer and bailout.
Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

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

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: 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, mdoerr

Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, dcubed

Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: stuefe, coleenp, roland

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: sspitsyn, coleenp, dcubed

Summary: Arguments coming from native should be converted to 0=false, 1-255=true
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Implement remembered sets verification for G1 with option VerifyRememberedSets
Reviewed-by: jmasa, mgerdin

Summary: Do not make reused PRTs available to other threads before the bitmap of the PRT has been cleared.
Reviewed-by: tbenson, mgerdin, brutisso
Contributed-by: NPoonam Bajaj &lt;poonam.bajaj@oracle.com&gt;, Thomas Schatzl <thomas.schatzl@oracle.com>

8139424: SIGSEGV, Problematic frame: # V [libjvm.so+0xd0c0cc] void InstanceKlass::oop_oop_iterate_oop_maps_specialized<true,oopDesc*,MarkAndPushClosure>
Summary: The crash was caused by a faulty eager humongous reclaim. The reason for reclaiming a live object was that the call to cleanupHRRS was done after dirtying cards and clearing the remembered sets for the humongous object. This could lead to one or many cards being missed.
Reviewed-by: tbenson, kbarrett, tschatzl

Summary: Rewrote compressed oops tests
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, mseledtsov

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, stuefe

Summary: Thread id is now displayed as a hex number in error report.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, hseigel, stuefe

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, vlivanov

Summary: for fixing a truncation problem on the output from -XX:+TraceClassPaths
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jiangli, cjplummer, minqi

Summary: Remove ResourceMark in StackMapReader::parse_verification_type() to avoid freeing of error message.
Reviewed-by: zmajo, dcubed, hseigel

Summary: Clean ICs of unloaded nmethods in sweeper to avoid impact on safepoint duration.
Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr

Summary: Removed nmethod transition to zombie outside of sweeper. Added cleaning of ICs of unloaded nmethods.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Remove active ICStubs from zombie nmethods
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov
Contributed-by: vlad.ureche@gmail.com

Summary: Updated comments to refer to relevant patents.
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: Bad rewiring of memory edges when we split unique types during EA
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: change as_ValueType() to return InstanceConstant when appropriate
Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: dcubed, mikael

Reviewed-by: roland

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add a WhiteBox callback to the VM to start a concurrent mark cycle in G1.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, sjohanss
Contributed-by: NLeonid Mesnik <leonid.mesnik@oracle.com>