Summary: The string in StringTable is not used by CDS anymore. Remove the unnecessary code in preparation for 8015422: Large performance hit when the StringTable is walked twice in Parallel Scavenge
Reviewed-by: pliden, tschatzl, coleenp

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

8014430: JRE crashes instead of stop compilation on full Code Cache. Internal Error (c1_Compiler.cpp:87)
Summary: Disable client compiler and switch to interpreter if there is not enough free space in the code cache.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Changed gen_write_ref_array_post_barrier() code on x64 to pass start address and number of copied oop elements. In generate_checkcast_copy() skip post barrier code if no elements are copied.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: Rename: compute_generations_free_space() = compute_eden_space_size() + compute_old_gen_free_space(); update related logging messages
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, tschatzl, brutisso
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: Stop current iteration of loop opts if partial_peel() failed and it created node clones outside processed loop.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: added <config.h> to header file to make hsdis compile with binutils 2.23.*
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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>

8014405: G1: PerRegionTable::fl_mem_size() calculates size of the free list using wrong element sizes
Summary: Instead of using a simple sizeof(), ask the PerRegionTable class about its size when iterating over the free list.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso

Summary: Add call to coalBirth() in CompactibleFreeListSpace::reset()
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Reviewed-by: ehelin, stefank

Summary: rename/remove local variables, re-arrange instance_size calculation, more comments.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Print helpful error message when VM aborts due to inability of allocating bit maps or card tables
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: Move the missing test to appropriate location.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

Summary: Added info for the string/symbol objects and the hash entries
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rbackman

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Remove dead code containing last call to scanf with no string length specifier
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Treat the empty string as the default value tag
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8014765: VM exits if MaxTenuringThreshold is set below the default InitialTenuringThreshold, and InitialTenuringThreshold is not set
Summary: The VM exits when the condition in the subject line applies. The fix sets InitialTenuringThreshold to MaxTenuringThreshold if it is larger than MaxTenuringThreshold and InitialTenuringThreshold has not been set (is default).
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, brutisso, johnc