Summary: Method pointer for zombie methods may be invalid
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

8022595: JSR292: deadlock during class loading of MethodHandles, MethodHandleImpl & MethodHandleNatives
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Do patching rather bailing out for unlinked call with appendix
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: set control edge for previous value load in G1 pre-barrier
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: store in _first_index not absolute index but an index relative to the last (youngest) jvms->_scloff value
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

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: 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