8006103: [parfait] Possible null pointer dereference at hotspot/src/os/linux/vm/os_linux.cpp; os_windows.cpp; os_solaris.cpp; os_bsd.cpp
Reviewed-by: zgu, iklam

Summary: Call dlerror() in VM thread as necessary.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Don't scan pages outside the given range.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa

Summary: Corrected virtual memory recording and tagging code when large pages are used
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung

7107135: Stack guard pages are no more protected after loading a shared library with executable stack
Summary: Detect the execstack attribute of the loaded library and attempt to fix the stack guard using Safepoint op.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

8008559: [parfait] Path through non-void function '_ZN2os15thread_cpu_timeEP6Thread' returns an undefined value
Summary: safety checks for non-Apple thread time functions
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fix the build without precompiled headers by either including the missing ".inline.hpp" files into the appropriate files or by turning inline-functions declared in header files into ordinary functions in ".cpp" files.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank, dholmes

Summary: Delete the questionable source code because it is for no-longer supported versions of Linux.
Reviewed-by: mikael, coleenp

Summary: Save errno before processing signal, then restore it.
Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

8006423: SA: NullPointerException in sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.bsd.BsdThread.getContext(BsdThread.java:67)
Summary: Do not rely on mach thread port names to identify threads from SA
Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi, rbackman

Summary: removed unused IA64 specific code
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, dholmes

Summary: Don't handle CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT event when the process is running in a non-interactive session
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, acorn

Summary: misc correctness fixes
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, dice, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: dave.dice@oracle.com

Summary: Use HW_MEMSIZE instead of HW_USERMEM to get a 64 bit value of the physical memory on the machine. Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com.
Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes, dlong, mikael

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

Summary: Added JRE/JDK bin directories to decoder's symbol search path
Reviewed-by: dcubed, sla

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

Summary: Mapping of aligned memory needs to be MT safe. Also reviewed by: vitalyd@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp

Summary: dll_dir can contain multiple paths, need to parse them correctly when loading agents
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong
Contributed-by: bill.pittore@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

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

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: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

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

Summary: add LogCompilation support in C1 - both client and tiered mode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Removing include of c1/c1_runtime.hpp and opto/runtime.hpp from all os-files.
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: nils.eliasson@oracle.com

Summary: Uncommented out include for sys/stat.h and deleted include statements that were commented out.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, dholmes
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

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

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, nloodin, mgronlun, coleenp

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>

Summary: Add inline directives to os::Linux::supports_monotonic_clock() and os::Bsd::supports_monotonic_clock().
Reviewed-by: johnc, azeemj, mikael
Contributed-by: NBrandon Mitchell <brandon@twitter.com>

Reviewed-by: dholmes, dsamersoff, nloodin

Summary: Provide additional detail in VerifyError messages
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, acorn

Summary: Implementation of decoder for Apple's MacOSX. The implementation is based on the patch provided by Kevin Walls.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, kevinw

7180914: Compilation warning after: 7172967: Eliminate the constMethod's _method backpointer to the methodOop.
Summary: Use read_pointer(J...) to access from 'constMethod' base in name_for_methodOop(), libjvm_db.c.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp