Summary: declare all user-defined operator new()s within Hotspot code with the empty throw() exception specification
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, dholmes, hseigel, dcubed, kvn, ccheung
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Return NULL on OOM from GetStringChars, GetStringUTFChars and Get<PrimitiveType>ArrayElements family of functions.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Replace the broken large pages implementation on Linux. New flag: -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages - Linux specific flag to turn on transparent huge page hinting with madvise(..., MAP_HUGETLB). Changed behavior: -XX:+UseLargePages - tries to use -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages before trying other large pages implementations (on Linux). Changed behavior: -XX:+UseHugeTLBFS - Use upfront allocation of Large Pages instead of using the broken implementation to dynamically committing large pages. Changed behavior: -XX:LargePageSizeInBytes - Turned off the ability to use this flag on Linux and provides warning to user if set to a value different than the OS chosen large page size. Changed behavior: Setting no large page size - Now defaults to use -XX:UseTransparentHugePages if the OS supports it. Previously, -XX:+UseHugeTLBFS was chosen if the OS was configured to use large pages.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, dcubed, brutisso

8016729: ObjectAlignmentInBytes=16 now forces the use of heap based compressed oops
8005933: The -Xshare:auto option is ignored for -server
Summary: Move klass metaspace above the heap and support CDS with compressed klass ptrs.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, mgerdin, tschatzl, stefank

Reviewed-by: stefank, ehelin

Summary: Add a list of nmethods to the RSet for a region that contain references into the region. Skip scanning the code cache during root scanning and scan the nmethod lists during RSet scanning instead.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso, mgerdin, twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: jmasa, ehelin

Summary: ActiveMethodOopsCache was used to keep track of old versions of some methods that are cached in Universe but is buggy with permgen removal and not needed anymore
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, mseledtsov

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, hseigel, jmasa, ctornqvi

Reviewed-by: acorn, jmasa, coleenp, dcubed, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: rasbold, tschatzl, jmasa
Contributed-by: yamauchi@google.com

6990419: CMS Remaining work for 6572569: consistently skewed work distribution in (long) re-mark pauses
Reviewed-by: rasbold, tschatzl, jmasa
Contributed-by: yamauchi@google.com

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

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

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

Reviewed-by: tbell, darcy

Reviewed-by: jmasa, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: johnc, tschatzl

Summary: Minimize redundant verifications of Klasses.
Reviewed-by: hseigel, jmasa

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, dholmes, coleenp, johnc

Summary: Parallelize the scanning of the intern string table by having each GC worker claim a given number of buckets. Changes were also reviewed by Per Liden <per.liden@oracle.com>.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, stefank, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

Summary: Fixed MetaspaceShared::is_in_shared_space
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

Reviewed-by: sla, rbackman

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: jeremymanson@google.com, calvin.cheung@oracle.com

8013057: assert(_needs_gc || SafepointSynchronize::is_at_safepoint()) failed: only read at safepoint
Summary: Detect mmap() commit failures in Linux and Solaris os::commit_memory() impls and call vm_exit_out_of_memory(). Add os::commit_memory_or_exit(). Also tidy up some NMT accounting and some mmap() return value checking.
Reviewed-by: zgu, stefank, dholmes, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: brutisso, pliden

Summary: Pad the PSPromotionManager instances in the manager array.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Added dumping of object sizes in CDS archive, sorted by MetaspaceObj::Type
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: Split SystemDictionary and ClassLoaderDataGraph root processing to help load balancing.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, johnc

Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, tschatzl

Summary: Correct the wrong print format in error message for VM cannot allocate the requested heap; and clean up the error message call in check_alignment()
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: ehelin, stefank

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Setting some public integer options to specific values causes crashes or undefined GC behavior. This patchset adds the necessary argument checking for these options.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: The fix of 8010992, disable use of global operator new and new[] which caused failure on some tests. This takes two of the bugs also add ALLOW_OPERATOR_NEW_USAGE to prevent crash for third party code calling operator new of jvm on certain platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: The patch for 8006088 misses regression tests after a merge error, this CR provides them.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, tamao, jmasa

Summary: With NPG, const KlassOop klass which is in fact a definition converted to Klass* const, which is not the original intention. The right usage is converting them to const Klass*.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com