Reviewed-by: kamg, minqi

Summary: Cleanup and document how various Linux release info files are used by print_distro_info().
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dsamersoff, coleenp, iklam, omajid
Contributed-by: gerald.thornbrugh@oracle.com

6900441: PlatformEvent.park(millis) on Linux could still be affected by changes to the time-of-day clock
Summary: Associate CLOCK_MONOTONIC with the pthread_cond_t objects used for relative timed waits
Reviewed-by: dcubed, shade

8024346: ~CautiouslyPreserveExceptionMark - assert(!_thread->has_pending_exception()) failed: unexpected exception generated
Summary: Pending exceptions must be handled properly after a call to the JVMTI merge_cp_and_rewrite
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

8024345: 'assert(_value != NULL) failed: resolving NULL _value' from VM_RedefineClasses::set_new_constant_pool
Summary: The OOME's in the JVMTI merge_cp_and_rewrite and set_new_constant_pool must be handled correctly
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

8017230: Internal Error (jvmtiRedefineClasses.cpp:1662): guarantee(false) failed: insert_space_at() failed
Summary: Handle pending exceptions instead of firing a guarantee()
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: allwin, acorn, dcubed, dholmes, egahlin

Summary: Enforce of preprocessing of all assembly sources by assembler-with-cpp
Reviewed-by: dholmes, erikj

Summary: on some macines gcc not able to link cxx program
Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Lowered the MinJumpTableSize for each platform
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: rbackman, twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com, vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Summary: Removed unused macro
Reviewed-by: kvn, adlertz

8023167: JVM allows duplicate Runtime[In]VisibleTypeAnnotations attributes in ClassFile/field_info/method_info structures
Summary: Add checks for duplicates and issue errors when detected.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu

Reviewed-by: sla

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Use WinDbg API StackWalk64()
Reviewed-by: zgu, dholmes

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: azeemj, brutisso, kvn, tschatzl

Summary: Removed incorrect assertion, sequence number can overflow
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kamg

Summary: Added brackets for if-statement
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Moved local scheduling code from class Block to class PhaseCFG
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

8023381: VM fails to initialize in runtime/CDSCompressedKPtrs/XShareAuto.java runtime/SharedArchiveFile/CdsSameObjectAlignment.java
Summary: Improve handling when CDS archive cannot be mapped
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, mseledtsov