Reviewed-by: kamg, ysr, dholmes, johnc

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

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

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

Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: This fixes lir_cmp_l2i on x64 and sparc 64bit, and the debug info generation.
Reviewed-by: 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

Summary: The logic for x86 C1 to save the SP over MH calls is pretty straight forward but SPARC handles that differently.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Passing a null pointer to an InvokeDynamic function call should lead to a NullPointerException.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: store jsr ret bci as intptr constant in c1 debug info
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: This implements JSR 292 support for C1 x86.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose, kvn

Summary: Matcher::float_in_double should be true only when FPU is used for floats.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Clear the total count when a receiver information is cleared.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Fix incorrect marking of methods as not compilable.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Rename can_post_exceptions support to can_post_on_exceptions. Add support for should_post_on_exceptions flag to permit per JavaThread optimizations.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, dcubed
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

Summary: We need to introduce a new MH deopt handler so we can easily determine if the deopt happened at a MH call site or not.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Reviewed-by: mr

Summary: We need to introduce a new MH deopt handler so we can easily determine if the deopt happened at a MH call site or not.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: C2 implementation for invokedynamic support.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Fix several crashers, remove needless paths for boxed-style bootstrap method call, refactor & simplify APIs for rewriter constantPoolOop, remove sun.dyn.CallSiteImpl
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Apply modification of existing server heap size ergo to all collectors except CMS.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ysr, xlu

Summary: The problem occurs with negative numbers, as the 32-bit input values are sign extended into the 64-bit registers.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Restore original null checks.
Reviewed-by: never, cfang

Reviewed-by: pbk, kvn

Summary: Fix problem with the double register encodings in sparc.ad
Reviewed-by: never, jrose
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: For signatures with a large number of arguments the offset for the float store becomes too big and does not fit in 13-bit.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Modify operand passed to C1 pre-barrier to be the operand representing the address of the object field that is being stored.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Make a special root-list for those few nmethods which might contain non-perm oops.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, jmasa, ysr

6875866: Intrinsic for String.indexOf() is broken on x86 with SSE4.2
Summary: Modify String intrinsic methods to pass char[] pointers instead of string oops.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add an explicit check for TypeProfileWidth == 0 in record_klass_in_profile_helper() functions.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp