Summary: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

6958465: Sparc aten build24.0: openjdk-7.ea-b96 failed Error: Formal argument ... requires an lvalue
Summary: Fix compilation errors.  Made non-const references const so can be assigned with lvalue.
Reviewed-by: phh, xlu

Summary: Check that cpuid returns valid values for processor topology (not zeros).
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Adjust performance flags settings.
Reviewed-by: never, phh

Summary: array_overlap_test() fails when the address range crosses the MSB boundary. Thanks to Tom and Vladimir for their help on this one.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, iveresov

Summary: There is a missing semicolon in cppInterpreter_zero.cpp.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Add new CP types CONSTANT_MethodHandle, CONSTANT_MethodType; extend 'ldc' bytecode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: Enable parallel compilation in C1
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: save and restore r10 in verify_oop().
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Hoist DecodeN instruction above null check
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: This fixes G1 barriers in c1 on x64.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Added new product ObjectAlignmentInBytes flag to control object alignment.
Reviewed-by: twisti, ysr, iveresov

Summary: C2 for SPARC needs to support JSR 292.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Factored cleanup of instruction decode which prepares for enhanced ldc semantics.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: C1 for SPARC needs to support JSR 292.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: This moves the oops from Codeblob to nmethod.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kamg, ysr, dholmes, johnc

Summary: The way Zero currently handles deoptimization can lead to methods being freed while they are still being executed.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Zero needs a couple of new methods to allow Shark to access the new frame anchor field.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Moves the logic for determining the size of the Zero stack into the ZeroStack class.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: The commit for 6939134 broke Zero.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Missed Zero changes for 6943304.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: On sun4v/CMT avoid use of memset() in BOT updates so as to prevent concurrent BOT readers from seeing the phantom zeros arising from memset()'s use of BIS.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, minqi, poonam, tonyp

Summary: split MethodHandle.invoke into invokeExact and invokeGeneric; also clean up JVM-to-Java interfaces
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: coleenp, never, gbenson

Summary: Zero will exit with an error when invoked with -Xcheck:jni.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kamg
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: There are unimplemented portions of the hotspot code for method handles and invokedynamic specific to SPARC.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Summary: c1 does sign-extension when it loads ints and shorts from memory to 64-bit registers. This causes problems for c2 because it relies on the fact the int passed in a 64-bit register is zero-extended.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: never, twisti
Contributed-by: NHiroshi Yamauchi <yamauchi@google.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, apetrusenko, never, dcubed

Summary: Two new files are missing in the push for 6941224.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: The fix for 6940701 broke Zero.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Adding stack overflow checking to Shark brought to light a bunch of deficiencies in Zero's stack overflow code.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: This fixes lir_cmp_l2i on x64 and sparc 64bit, and the debug info generation.
Reviewed-by: never

6941529: SharedRuntime::raw_exception_handler_for_return_address must reset thread MethodHandle flag
Summary: During testing a bug was hit when an exception returned to the interpreter and the SP was wrong.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Use BIS instruction for allocation prefetch on Sparc
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Don't align loops in stubs for Niagara sparc since NOPs are expensive.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: For large arrays we should use 64 bytes chunks copy.
Reviewed-by: twisti