Summary: Disallow increasing native memory tracking level
Reviewed-by: hseigel, ctornqvi, gtriantafill

Summary: Refactored emptyStack to a static member of NativeCallStack, which is accessible in minimal build.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Enhance scalability of native memory tracking
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi, gtriantafill

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

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: Fixed NMT race condition for realloc, uncommit and release
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung

8010151: nsk/regression/b6653214 fails "assert(snapshot != NULL) failed: Worker should not be started"
Summary: Fixed a racing condition when shutting down NMT while worker thread is being started, also fixed a few mis-declared volatile pointers.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong

8010474: [parfait] Undefined return value of the functions in hotspot/src/share/vm/services/memTracker.hpp
Summary: Fixed functions that miss return values
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, kvn

8009777: NMT: add new NMT dcmd to control auto shutdown option
Summary: Added diagnostic VM option and DCmd command to allow NMT stay alive under stress situation
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Add WB API functions to enable better NMT testing
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu

Summary: Count number of instance classes so that it matches class metadata size
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp

Summary: Fixed NMT that miscounted arena memory when it is used as value or stack object.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp

Summary: Enhanced virtual memory tracking to track committed regions as well as reserved regions, so NMT now can generate virtual memory map.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp

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

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

Summary: Solaris only, record stack info to NMT after stack size adjustment was made for primordial threads
Reviewed-by: kvn, acorn, coleenp

7181995: NMT ON: NMT assertion failure assert(cur_vm->is_uncommit_record() || cur_vm->is_deallocation_record
Summary: Fixed virtual memory records merge and promotion logic, should be based on sequence number vs. base address order
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

7187429: NMT ON: Merge failure should cause NMT to shutdown
Summary: Fixed NMT assertion failures
Reviewed-by: acorn, kvn

Summary: 1) Fixed MemTrackWorker::generations_in_used() calculation 2) Ensured NMT not to leak memory recorders after shutdown 3) Used ThreadCritical to block safepoint safe threads
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, dholmes, kvn

Summary: Changed _query_lock to heap object from static object. Also fixed _query_lock and snapshot lock ranks, so they can participate deadlock detection.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, kvn

7151532: DCmd for hotspot native memory tracking
Summary: Implementation of native memory tracking phase 1, which tracks VM native memory usage, and related DCmd
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, fparain