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>

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

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

Summary: meet of 2 constant arrays result in bottom
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: remove the assert and deallocate cashed class file bytes that are in collision
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: A dead scope  of the local needs to be identified
Reviewed-by: coleenp, vlivanov, mgronlun

Summary: For *store bytecodes, compare incoming, not outgoing, type state with exception handlers' stack maps.
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes

Summary: Instead of 'fpclass', use cast float->int and double->long to check if value is +0.0f and +0.0d, respectively.
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis, dlong

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ecaspole

8046246: the constantPoolCacheOopDesc::adjust_method_entries() used in RedefineClasses does not scale
Summary: optimize the adjust_method_entries functions by using the orig_method_idnum() function
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: Relax the guaranty for deleted methods
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Fixed by removing all code related to LowMemoryProtection, which removed offending code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi

Summary: default methods added to classes confuse dependency processing
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: lfoltan, sspitsyn

Summary: use method cpref and klass version to provide meaningful methods name in stacktraces
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: Warning when not checking exceptions from function that require so, also when local refs expand beyond capacity.
Reviewed-by: dsimms

Summary: Escape state of allocated object should be always adjusted after it was passed to a method.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Force all Solaris builds to use the same version of the DIR structure.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, kvn

Reviewed-by: kbarrett, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Added better debug-printing support and enhanced LogCompilation tool
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, dholmes

Summary: Check for overflow when inverting the loop during the counted loop conversion
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Reviewed-by: mchung, dfuchs, ahgross, brutisso

Summary: Update MacroAssembler::ldf to select addressing mode depending on Address parameter.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dlong

8068881: SIGBUS in C2 compiled method weblogic.wsee.jaxws.framework.jaxrpc.EnvironmentFactory$SimulatedWsdlDefinitions.<init>
Summary: Use MachMerge to hook together defs of the same multidef value in a block
Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kvn