Summary: Optimize the method pointer adjustments for prev klass versions and MNT
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Also improve check for Safepoints in signal handler.
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis

Reviewed-by: stuefe, dsamersoff, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn

8068915: uncommon trap w/ Reason_speculate_class_check causes performance regression due to continuous deoptimizations
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

8072863: Replace fatal() with vm_exit_during_initialization() when an incorrect class is found on the bootclasspath
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: NCheleswer Sahu <cheleswer.sahu@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, iignatyev

Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Print selected page size, not alignment size chosen by ReservedSpace (which is the vm_allocation_granularity that is different to page size on Windows) in the message presented by TracePageSizes.
Reviewed-by: drwhite, jmasa

Summary: Allow use of large pages for auxiliary data structures in G1. Clean up existing interfaces.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, pliden, stefank

Reviewed-by: stefank, tschatzl, anoll, thartmann

Summary: Unsafe is not recommended and may deprecated in future. Added a WhiteBox API to get VM page size.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ccheung, mseledtsov
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: sjohanss, jmasa

Summary: Factor out pretouch code of the various virtual space management classes and use them everywhere including in G1.
Reviewed-by: stefank, ehelin, dholmes

Reviewed-by: stefank, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Removed the Solaris specific conditionalization for casting to void * within calls to HS_DTRACE_PROBE* to enable successful compilation with gcc Red Hat 4.4.6-4.
Reviewed-by: hseigel, stefank

8044416: serviceability/sa/jmap-hashcode/Test8028623.java fails with AssertionFailure: can not get class data for java/lang/UNIXProcess$Platform$$Lambda
Summary: Lambda object is not counted when SA builds class data cache but is reached inside live region.
Reviewed-by: sla, jbachorik

Summary: fixed java programming style nit
Reviewed-by: dholmes, jbachorik, sspitsyn