Summary: In fieldDescriptor::generic_signature() returns NULL immediately if the field has no generic signature.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: replace frequent C2 optimizer code patterns with new methods calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Summary: keep intermediate node alive till the end of the graph construction using dummy hook node trick
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Summary: Add missing check for EncodeP node in MemNode::Ideal_common_DU_postCCP() method.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: NChris Dennis <cdennis@terracottatech.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Eliminate constMethod's _method backpointer to methodOop, and move the _constant field from methodOop to constMethod.
Reviewed-by: roland, bdelsart, kamg

Reviewed-by: acorn, kamg, sspitsyn, dholmes

Summary: Class.cast which calls Class.isInstance is heavily used by the new JSR 292 implementation
Reviewed-by: roland
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <rednaxelafx@gmail.com>

Summary: Fixed raw pointer being used after potential safepoint/GC
Reviewed-by: acorn, fparain, dholmes

Summary: The scope of TraceMemoryManagerStats in G1CollectedHeap need to cover the call to G1MonitoringSupport::update_sizes()
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa

Reviewed-by: azeemj, jmasa

Summary: Add "using" keyword to import base class functions from FreeList<T> to fix template name lookup in gcc 4.7
Reviewed-by: brutisso, iveresov

Summary: Simplify code, remove unused code, remove ExitAfterGCNum
Reviewed-by: huntch, johnc

Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Summary: Place HandleMarks in the code that allocates handles for the pending list lock so that the handles are freed and multiple, unsuccessful, attempts to schedule a GC do not cause an OOM.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Removed LOG_G and LOG_K. Moved LOG_M to where it is being used.
Reviewed-by: twisti, johnc

Summary: Before the last thread to leave a JNI critical region was able to schedule a GCLocker Initiated GC, another thread was attempting an allocation and saw that the GCLocker region was no longer active and successfully scheduled a GC. Stall allocating threads until the GCLocker Initiated GC is performed and then retry the allocation.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, huntch

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: optimize this code pattern obj.getClass() == A.class.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kamg

7168280: Eliminate the generic signature index slot from field array for field without generic signature.
Summary: Only allocate the generic signature index slot in the field array for field with generic signature attribute.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dlong

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Summary: Removed the assert in CompactibleFreeListSpace::check_free_list_consistency() since it was too strict. Simplified CompactibleFreeListSpace::set_cms_values() to reducde the need for asserts.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, stefank

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, johnc

Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, johnc, dholmes

Summary: GC cause was not being set by the VM_G1CollectForAllocation VM operation.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ysr, brutisso

Summary: use x87 instructions to implement exp() and pow() in interpreter/c1/c2.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti

Summary: Add ceiling to AdaptiveWeightedAverage
Reviewed-by: ysr, iveresov

Summary: Allow a version of String class that doesn't have count and offset fields.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp

Summary: Rename "to-space-overflow" to "to-space-exhausted", Introduce one decimal point in the size format, Add Sum to the aggregate and re-order the entries, Add number of GC workers to the log output
Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm

Summary: Simple change to the SE-Embedded build rules that should not affect any other OpenJDK users.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes

Summary: Added missing double format to Flag::print_as_flag()
Reviewed-by: dholmes, stefank, coleenp

Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

Summary: When constructing input vector use type of vector's operation which use it since element's sizes should match.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Change the _host_klass to be conditionally created embedded instanceKlass field.
Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm, jmasa