Summary: When using NUMA and large pages we need to ease the requirement on which node the memory should be allocated on. To avoid the SIGBUS we now use the memory policy MPOL_PREFERRED, which prefers a certain node, instead of MPOL_BIND, which requires a certain node.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, pliden
Contributed-by: stefan.johansson@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: tonyp, tschatzl

Summary: Recognize 0x5120 as "Sun Studio 12u3".
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

8021948: Change InstanceKlass::_source_file_name and _generic_signature from Symbol* to constant pool indexes.
Summary: Change InstanceKlass::_source_file_name and _generic_signature to u2 fields.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: minqi, sla

Reviewed-by: ysr, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

8016729: ObjectAlignmentInBytes=16 now forces the use of heap based compressed oops
8005933: The -Xshare:auto option is ignored for -server
Summary: Move klass metaspace above the heap and support CDS with compressed klass ptrs.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, mgerdin, tschatzl, stefank

Reviewed-by: stefank, ehelin

Reviewed-by: ysr, hiroshi

Summary: Add appropriate documentation and references to publication to allow easier analysis of the TaskQueue implementation.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ehelin

Reviewed-by: stefank, sjohanss

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jmasa

Reviewed-by: stefank, mgerdin

Summary: Add a list of nmethods to the RSet for a region that contain references into the region. Skip scanning the code cache during root scanning and scan the nmethod lists during RSet scanning instead.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso, mgerdin, twisti, kvn

Summary: remove crufty '_g' support from HS tests
Reviewed-by: dcubed, sla

Summary: Replace MAX_UNROLL constant with new C2 LoopMaxUnroll flag.
Reviewed-by: roland