Summary: Eliminate _CHECK_BOTH_FINGERS_ and simplify.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Push the remembered sets of large objects with few referenced into the dirty card queue at the beginning of the evacuation so that they may end up with zero remembered set entries at the end of the collection, and are potentially reclaimed. Also improve timing measurements of the early reclaim mechanism, and shorten flag names.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa, dfazunen

6536943: Bogus -Xcheck:jni warning for SIG_INT action for SIGINT in JVM started from non-interactive shell
Summary: check_signal_handler will print out Warning for SHURDOWN2_SIGNAL (SIGINT) is replaced by non-interactive shell. Fix by supply more information of the replacement to user.
Reviewed-by: dholmes
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Prevent vectorization of memory operations with different invariant offsets if unaligned memory accesses are not allowed.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: C2 should not try to vectorize loops with loop variant vector base address.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, kbarrett, hseigel

Summary: Null the InterpreterRuntime::member_name_arg_or_null return value when it is necessary
Reviewed-by: jbachorik, coleenp, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, iignatyev

Summary: Optimize the method pointer adjustments for prev klass versions and MNT
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Also improve check for Safepoints in signal handler.
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis

Reviewed-by: stuefe, dsamersoff, dcubed

Summary: NMT with detail option reports incorrect caller address on Linux.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Removed the Solaris specific conditionalization for casting to void * within calls to HS_DTRACE_PROBE* to enable successful compilation with gcc Red Hat 4.4.6-4.
Reviewed-by: hseigel, stefank

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: check that offset % mem_oper_size == 0 when alignment is verified during vectorization.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: replace Vzeroupper instruction in stubs with zeroing only used ymm registers.
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: sandhya.viswanathan@intel.com

Summary: meet of 2 constant arrays result in bottom
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: remove the assert and deallocate cashed class file bytes that are in collision
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: A dead scope  of the local needs to be identified
Reviewed-by: coleenp, vlivanov, mgronlun

Summary: For *store bytecodes, compare incoming, not outgoing, type state with exception handlers' stack maps.
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes

Summary: Instead of 'fpclass', use cast float->int and double->long to check if value is +0.0f and +0.0d, respectively.
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis, dlong

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ecaspole

8046246: the constantPoolCacheOopDesc::adjust_method_entries() used in RedefineClasses does not scale
Summary: optimize the adjust_method_entries functions by using the orig_method_idnum() function
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: Relax the guaranty for deleted methods
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Fixed by removing all code related to LowMemoryProtection, which removed offending code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi

Summary: default methods added to classes confuse dependency processing
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: lfoltan, sspitsyn

Summary: use method cpref and klass version to provide meaningful methods name in stacktraces
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: Warning when not checking exceptions from function that require so, also when local refs expand beyond capacity.
Reviewed-by: dsimms

Summary: Escape state of allocated object should be always adjusted after it was passed to a method.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Force all Solaris builds to use the same version of the DIR structure.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, kvn

Reviewed-by: kbarrett, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Added better debug-printing support and enhanced LogCompilation tool
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, dholmes

Summary: Check for overflow when inverting the loop during the counted loop conversion
Reviewed-by: kvn

8049881: jstack not working on core files
Summary: These changes add some definitions on the SA side and the supporting code on the hotspot side.
Reviewed-by: sla, dsamersoff, mgronlun

Reviewed-by: mchung, dfuchs, ahgross, brutisso

Summary: Update MacroAssembler::ldf to select addressing mode depending on Address parameter.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dlong

8068915: uncommon trap w/ Reason_speculate_class_check causes performance regression due to continuous deoptimizations
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn