Summary: Remove obsolete code that relates to ISM which was used only on Solaris 8.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Requires: 8013789: Compiler bridges, 8015402: metafactory
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, coleenp, bharadwaj

Summary: Some of qsort implementation on Linux x86 compares element to itself, which is  mistakenly treated as duplicate pointer
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn

Summary: Make the destructor virtual (note more non-compiler hotspot errors occur downstream)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Disable the test for SPARC and reduce the number of test iterations
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Limit the size of the code cache to at most 2G when arguments are checked; added regression test
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: JVM_SetProtectionDomain has been deprecated since 1.5 and is being removed
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

8020059: The flag introduced by 8014972 is not defined if Hotspot is built  without a compiler (zero, ppc64 core build).
Summary: define CodeCacheMinimumUseSpace flag for cppInterpeter build.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Changed initial size to Chunk::tiny_size (216 bytes)
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, rdurbin

Summary: Dl_info struct should only be used if dladdr() has returned non-zero (no errors) and always check the dladdr() return value; Dl_info.dli_sname and Dl_info.dli_saddr fields should only be used if non-NULL; update/improve runtime/6888954/vmerrors.sh test
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, zgu, hseigel, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

8016074: NMT: assertion failed: assert(thread->thread_state() == from) failed: coming from wrong thread state
Summary: Uses os::NakedYield() on Solaris instead of os::yield_all()
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, hseigel

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

Summary: Return the appropriate JNI error message (instead of the generic one) when the JVM is already started
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel
Contributed-by: sylvestre@debian.org

8017571: JSR292: JVM crashing on assert "cast to instanceKlass" while producing MethodHandle for array methods with MethodHandle.findVirtual
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add intrinsics using new instruction to interpreter, C1, C2, for suitable x86; add test
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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

8014972: Crash with specific values for -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=500K -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=500k
Summary: Introduce a minimum code cache size that guarantees that the VM can startup.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti