Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann
Contributed-by: tatiana.pivovarova@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kbarrett, stefank

8173373: C1: NPE is thrown instead of LinkageError when accessing inaccessible field on NULL receiver
Summary: Deoptimize if receiver null check of unresolved field access fails to throw NoClassDefFoundError instead of NPE.
Reviewed-by: vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: vlivanov

Summary: Fix method searches to handle static, private instance and overpass
Reviewed-by: acorn

Summary: made 8027631 first arg skip applicable to not inlined virtual callsite too.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jcm

Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Summary: fixed the jvms for callsite traps based on declared signature.
Reviewed-by: jcm, coleenp, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: hseigel

Summary: Backport change to correct interface initialization.
Reviewed-by: gtriantafill, sspitsyn, dholmes

Summary: Putting a comma after the year in GPL header.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, tschatzl

Summary: Fixed pattern
Reviewed-by: iignatyev, dholmes

Summary: extract processor count from sched_getaffinity mask
Reviewed-by: dholmes, gthornbr

Summary: don't convert loop with safepoint on the backedge to Counted loop
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: extract processor count from sched_getaffinity mask
Reviewed-by: dholmes, gthornbr

8042660: vm/mlvm/anonloader/stress/byteMutation failed with: assert(index >=0 && index < _length) failed: symbol index overflow
Summary: Detect zero length signatures and throw ClassFormatError before bad dereference occurs
Reviewed-by: hseigel

Reviewed-by: jbachorik, egahlin, ykantser, mtobiass

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

Summary: Illegal bytecodes which are detected later hit this assert first.
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: Need to specify /othervm in annotation section if jvm command line option -Xbatch is specified.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Correct backport of 8159244.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fixed string comparison and indentation
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: don't convert loop with safepoint on the backedge to Counted loop
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

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: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr

Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr