8013496: Code cache management command line options work only in special order. Another order of arguments does not deliver the second parameter to the jvm.
Summary: Moved check that ReservedCodeCacheSize >= InitialCodeCacheSize to Arguments::check_vm_args_consistency(). As a result, the ordering in which the two parameters are given to the VM is not relevant. Added a regression test.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8015441: runThese crashed with assert(opcode == Op_ConP || opcode == Op_ThreadLocal || opcode == Op_CastX2P ..) failed: sanity
Summary: Relax the assert to accept any raw ptr types.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: nmethod::preserve_callee_argument_oops() must take appendix into account.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: missing regression test
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

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: 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

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