Summary: Supply a new flag -XX:+AssumeMP to workaround the problem. With the flag is turned on, assume VM run on MP platform so is_MP() will return true that sync calls will not skip away.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, dcubed, jmasa
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Put UseSplitVerifier option on the deprecated list.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kmo, acorn

Summary: Remove the related assertions becasue they do not hold here.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: Take the initial heap size into account when checking the heap size for compressed oops
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kvn, hseigel, ctornqvi

Summary: The minimal JVM is printing a warning message for default settings when it should quitely ignore them.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Deprecate MaxGCMinorPauseMillis and emit a warning if set by users
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

8008310: Some adjustments needed to minimal VM warnings and errors for unsupported command line options
Summary: Changes to arguments.cpp for warnings vs. errors.  Changes for CDS arguments.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, cjplummer

Summary: Modify WhiteBoxAPI to use interface classes from test/testlibrary instead, add ClassFileInstaller to resolve the boot class path issue
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, dsamersoff, coleenp, kvn

Summary: Fix warning messages when selected garbage collectors are excluded from the minimal jvm.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, cjplummer

Summary: Set ReservedCodeCacheSize to (default value)*5 when TieredCompilation is on.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8000968: NPG: UseCompressedKlassPointers asserts with ObjectAlignmentInBytes for > 32G CompressedOops
Summary: Pick a base that works for both CompressedOpps alignment and CompressedKlassPtrs alignment.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Change error messages for malformed options so the messages are more useful.
Reviewed-by: mikael, kvn, nloodin

Summary: Removed depreciated kernel VM source code from hotspot VM
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: A warning message should be displayed if these options are used with the Minimal VM.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm, coleenp, stefank

Summary: Flags changed to be of uintx type
Reviewed-by: johnc, tamao

Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

Summary: Define jlong as long on all LP64 platforms and add JLONG_FORMAT macro.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, mikael, kvn

Summary: Print an error message and exit the VM if UseParallalGC is combined with ParllelGCThreads==0. Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com.
Reviewed-by: stefank, ehelin

Summary: Save the alignment when writing the CDS and compare it when reading the CDS.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm

Summary: Log warning messages for DefNew+CMS and ParNew+SerialOld
Reviewed-by: ysr, jwilhelm, jcoomes

8005396: Use ParNew with only one thread instead of DefNew as default for CMS on single CPU machines
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes

Summary: post parse inlining driven by number of live nodes.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, jrose

Summary: Phase 2 is removing '_g' support from the Runtime code.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp, hseigel
Contributed-by: ron.durbin@oracle.com

Summary: The flags MinHeapDeltaBytes and UseNUMAInterleaving must be adjusted after the OS have adjusted the UseNUMA flag in the method os::init_2.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, brutisso
Contributed-by: erik.helin@oracle.com

Summary: Check that the values specified for -XX:StringTableSize are within a certain range.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Disable -XX:+UseLargePages for MacOS X
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Remove support for the UseVectoredExceptions flag
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kamg
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Added code to write the value of the java.class.path property to the hs_err file.
Reviewed-by: kmo, dholmes, kvn
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: The -XX:+UseVMInterruptibleIO flag is deprecated for JDK8.  The flag will still enable Interruptible IO on Solaris, but users will get a warning.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, alanb
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Change the flags and variables related to tenuring threshold to be unsigned
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: Set the value of MarkStackSize to a value based on the number of parallel marking threads with a reasonable minimum. Expand the marking stack if we have to restart marking due to an overflow up to a reasonable maximum. Allocate the underlying space for the marking stack from virtual memory.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: The warnings associated with the UseMemSetInBOT flag are duplicated in CMS and G1. The separate warnings have been removed and single instance of the warning has been placed in a common location.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr

Summary: Print out statistics of collected NMT data if it is on at VM exits
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti

7196103: NPG: Unable to allocate bit map for parallel garbage collection for the requested heap size
Summary: Don't allocate huge class metaspace size by default on x64
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, kvn

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

7178363: G1: Remove the serial code for PrintGCDetails and make it a special case of the parallel code
Summary: Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com. Introduced the WorkerDataArray class. Fixed some minor logging bugs.
Reviewed-by: johnc, mgerdin