Summary: Implementation of JDK 8 JVMS 5.4.3.4 specification change to skip static and non-public methods of java.lang.Object for interface method resolution.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

8029106: JVM crashes in Metachunk::Metachunk during parallel class redefinition (PrivateMLetController, anonymous-simple_copy_1)
Summary: Fixed overflow bug in VirtualSpaceNode::is_available
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso, coleenp, jmasa

Summary: Reducing the number of calls to follow_class_loader to speed up the marking phase. Also removed some unnecessary calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa, jwilhelm

8029415: java/lang/reflect/Method/invoke/TestPrivateInterfaceMethodReflect.java fails on all platforms with hs25-b61
Summary: Check first that a class is not a dynamically-generated bytecode associated with 1.4 reflection implementation, to emitting an ICCE of an invokespecial IMR of a method in an indirect superinterface.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Use the anonymous class's host class for protected access checks
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, lfoltan

8028126: nsk/jvmti/scenarios/hotswap/HS101/hs101t006 Crashed the vm on Solaris-sparc64 fastdebug builds: only current thread can flush its registers
Summary: Fix a race between VMOp_GetCurrentLocation reaching a safepoint and arget thread exiting from Java execution
Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes, dsamersoff
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: hseigel, lfoltan, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, lfoltan, hseigel

Summary: fix code to allow testing on Fujitsu Sparc64 CPUs
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Catch missing-because-illegal case for itable entries and use an exception-throwing method instead of null.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jrose, coleenp

Summary: Add verification to check that invokespecial of an InterfaceMethodref names a method in a direct superinterface of the current class or interface in accordance with JSR 335, JVMS 4.9.2 Structural Constraints.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel, coleenp
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Reduced the number of calls to follow_class_loader and instead marked and pushed the klass holder directly. Also removed unneeded calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, mgerdin, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: dholmes, egahlin

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Summary: Exclude private methods when checking for final method override.
Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp, dholmes, mseledtsov

Summary: Minimal VM doesn't run
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dcubed, sla

Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn, mgronlun

Summary: Fix reversing rewriting for invokespecial
Reviewed-by: jrose, hseigel

Summary: Move handle_full_code_cache() out of block that forbids safepoints
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Change _abstract_method_handler to return AbstractMethodError i2c, c2i and c2iv entries.
Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: roland, kvn

Summary: MagicLambdaImpl was removed from jdk side, this should be done in vm side too
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, rdurbin

Summary: Create extra constant pool cache entries for invokespecial/InterfaceMethodref to hold the alternate resolution.
Reviewed-by: jrose, lfoltan, hseigel

Summary: Need to process defaults for interfaces for invokespecial
Reviewed-by: lfoltan, hseigel, coleenp, jrose

Summary: null classes should be expected in profiles with conflicts
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: inlined method handle calls can call methods with different signatures
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Summary: receiver type collected by profiling for default method may be interface
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Summary: Fixed proper sweeping of small code cache sizes
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Exclude last input argument's stack slots from vector's spilling masks.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: Needed to update _space_alignment in generation sizer to ensure correct sizing of spaces.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl

Summary: Remove min_gen1_size argument from adjust_gen0_sizes()
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso

Summary: Update NewSize when _initial_gen0_size is changed
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso

Summary: Three tests added: 1) test stressing VirtualSpace by resizing it constantly 2) test running unit tests in several threads 3) test checking protected area in ReservedHeapSpace class
Reviewed-by: stefank, zgu
Contributed-by: aleksey.timofeev@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Change checks for isHumongous() to continuesHumongous() as installing a code root for a humongous object is valid, but not for continuations of humongous objects. Cleaned up asserts.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tamao