Summary: This patch adds a comment pointing to the Hacker's Delight version of the algorithm plus a verbatim copy of it.  Furthermore it adds inline comments.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Move the CreateEx up before each round of IFG construction
Reviewed-by: never, phh

Summary: Use merged memory state for an allocation's slow path.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add new product flag -XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions
Reviewed-by: ysr, xlu

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: phh, kvn

Reviewed-by: phh, kvn

Summary: The C2 compiler leads to wrong results on solaris-i486 (32-bit) for a testcase given in the CR.
Reviewed-by: never, rasbold

Summary: Renaming LoadC to LoadUS would round up the planned introduction of LoadUB and LoadUI.
Reviewed-by: phh, kvn

Summary: Fix the assert in TypeKlassPtr::cast_to_ptr_type().
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add missing code for reflection class loader in SystemDictionary::find().
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Set minimum block frequency MIN_BLOCK_FREQUENCY 1.e-35f.
Reviewed-by: never, rasbold

Summary: Add the missing check for CreateEx. Add new notproduct flag VerifyRegisterAllocator.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Replaces SharedRuntime::f2i et al with versions that should work
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com

6786340: hs14b09a pit: a lot of tests failed in "-server -Xcomp" on solaris-amd64 using fastdebug bits
Summary: Fixes the nsk-jdi PIT failures introduced by fix for 6739363
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Relax the assert for Sparc.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp

Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp

Summary: remove Universe::_fillerArrayKlassObj and associated code
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp

Summary: Restore the code which sets a control edge for a klass load node.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified starting July 2008 to Dec 2008
Reviewed-by: katleman, ohair, tbell

Reviewed-by: ysr, mchung

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: rasbold, kvn

Reviewed-by: jmasa

Reviewed-by: jmasa

Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr

Summary: DTrace probe "contended-exit" should be fired before unparking object, or context could be lost. Probe firing was moved to proper place.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

6736295: SIGSEGV in product jvm, assertion "these are the only valid states during a mark sweep" in fastdebug
Summary: Restructured the code in the perm gen allocation retry loop so as to avoid "safepoint-blocking" on locks, in this case the Heap_lock, while holding uninitialized allocated heap storage.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jcoomes, jmasa, poonam

Summary: Make reguard_stack change access to RW, not execute and use os::protect_memory with the new parameter when change needed to X.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jcoomes

Summary: more and better #line and #define directives in the generated code; ADLC itself accepts #line directives
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Print out JDK/JRE version that hotspot knows about.
Reviewed-by: kamg, blacklion, acorn, alanb

Summary: temporarily turn off LinkWellKnownClasses optimization
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Fix adds support for verifying arguments with -Xcheck:jni.
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: In os::Linux::rebuild_cpu_to_node_map() fix the size of the CPU bitmap. Fixed arithmetic in MutableNUMASpace::adaptive_chunk_size() that could cause overflows and underflows of the chunk_size variable.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

Summary: Create new "eliminated" BoxLock node for monitor debug info when corresponding locks are eliminated.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Renamed Reference{Policy,Pocessor} methods from snap{,_policy}() to setup{,_policy}()
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko