Summary: Forward port of 7u change to add additional fence() on RMO platforms, with a load_acquire on all platforms
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn

Summary: Method sun.jvm.hotspot.runtime.OSThread.initialize throws a sun.jvm.hotspot.types.WrongTypeException
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mgerdin

8022029: GetUnsafeObjectG1PreBarrier fails on 32-bit with: Unrecognized VM option 'ObjectAlignmentInBytes=32'
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: minqi, poonam

Summary: Added a x86 64-bit Solaris shared library and rewrote test in Java
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ctornqvi

Summary: made event messages better readable
Reviewed-by: kvn, rbackman

Summary: test/runtime/7196045 times out
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mseledtsov

Summary: With this change the HotSpot core build works on Linux/PPC64. The VM succesfully executes simple test programs.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, fparain, dcubed

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Removed part of the test that required the VM to start up with -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=2048m
Reviewed-by: kvn, rbackman

Summary: runtime/8000968/Test8000968.sh has incorrect check for proper config
Reviewed-by: coleenp, mseledtsov, sspitsyn, hseigel

Summary: Assert in ThreadTimesClosure::do_thread() due to use of naked oop instead of handle
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: OutputAnalyzer.shouldHaveExitValue() should print stdout/stderr output
Reviewed-by: kvn, ctornqvi, dholmes

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa, kvn, tamao

Summary: Added checking for gcc and simplified the sig_handler() in the test case
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp, minqi, dlong

Summary: C1's GetUnsafeObject G1 pre-barrier uses the wrong type to read the klass pointer.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes