8049881: jstack not working on core files
Summary: These changes add some definitions on the SA side and the supporting code on the hotspot side.
Reviewed-by: sla, dsamersoff, mgronlun

Summary: refactor close to remove references to closed ports
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis, sgehwolf, dholmes

Reviewed-by: mchung, dfuchs, ahgross, jmasa, brutisso, mgerdin
Contributed-by: kim.barrett@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: mchung, dfuchs, ahgross, jmasa, brutisso, mgerdin
Contributed-by: kim.barrett@oracle.com

Summary: Cleaned up CDS to be more configurable, maintainable and extensible
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn, mchung

Reviewed-by: roland, vlivanov

Summary: Add new C2 intrinsic for BigInteger::multiplyToLen() on x86 in 64-bit VM.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: SA used the wrong type for the indexedFreeList in CompactibleFreeListSpace.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jmasa
Contributed-by: matthias.baesken@sap.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Use new nodes for loadFence/storeFence intrinsics in C2.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes

8005810: Update Hotspot Serviceability Agent for Method Parameter Reflection and Generic Type Signature Data
Summary: Hotspot was updated to store method parameter reflection and generic type signature data at runtime.  Serviceability agent support was updated for this data
Reviewed-by: coleenp, minqi, sla
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Ensure ensure correct initialization of compiler runtime
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

Summary: New default methods list with inherited superinterface methods
Reviewed-by: minqi, sspitsyn, coleenp

Summary: Move protection domain oops from system dictionary entries into a seperate set; the system dictionary references entries in that set now. This allows fast iteration during non-classunloading garbage collection. Implementation based on initial prototype from Ioi Lam (iklam).
Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam

Summary: Code cache sweeping based on method hotness; removed speculatively disconnect
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn

Summary: Enhance method resolution and resulting data structures, plus some refactoring.
Reviewed-by: twisti, acorn, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Added AIX includes alpha-sorted before BSD. Fix compilation issues with xlC in shared code. Basic shared platform dependend adaption (vm_version etc.).
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, stefank

8021948: Change InstanceKlass::_source_file_name and _generic_signature from Symbol* to constant pool indexes.
Summary: Change InstanceKlass::_source_file_name and _generic_signature to u2 fields.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam

Summary: public methods that don't need to be public should be private.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Hide private node to block mapping using public interface
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Remove -Xaprof and Klass::_alloc_count & ArrayKlass::_alloc_size.
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

8015391: NPG: With -XX:+UseCompressedKlassPointers OOME due to exhausted metadata space could occur when metaspace is almost empty
Summary: Allocate medium chunks for class metaspace when class loader has lots of classes
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jmasa

Summary: Added Atomic::inc(short*) to support this change.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed, dholmes, minqi

Summary: added #includes needed for ppc64 port. Renamed _MODEL_ppc to _MODEL_ppc_32 and renamed corresponding old _ppc files to _ppc_32.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>

Summary: Inject protection_domain, signers, init_lock into java_lang_Class
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, sla

Summary: The fix of 8010992, disable use of global operator new and new[] which caused failure on some tests. This takes two of the bugs also add ALLOW_OPERATOR_NEW_USAGE to prevent crash for third party code calling operator new of jvm on certain platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Resurrected autobox elimination code and enabled part of it by default.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Summary: anti-delta fix for 8010992 until 8012902 can be fixed
Reviewed-by: acorn, minqi, rdurbin

Summary: disable use of global operator new and new[] which could cause unexpected exception and escape from NMT tracking.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

Summary: Allocate the method's profiling related metadata until they are needed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland