Summary: Relax the assert for Sparc.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Restore the code which sets a control edge for a klass load node.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: ysr, mchung

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: rasbold, kvn

Reviewed-by: jmasa

Reviewed-by: jmasa

Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr

Summary: DTrace probe "contended-exit" should be fired before unparking object, or context could be lost. Probe firing was moved to proper place.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

6736295: SIGSEGV in product jvm, assertion "these are the only valid states during a mark sweep" in fastdebug
Summary: Restructured the code in the perm gen allocation retry loop so as to avoid "safepoint-blocking" on locks, in this case the Heap_lock, while holding uninitialized allocated heap storage.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jcoomes, jmasa, poonam

Summary: Make reguard_stack change access to RW, not execute and use os::protect_memory with the new parameter when change needed to X.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jcoomes

Summary: more and better #line and #define directives in the generated code; ADLC itself accepts #line directives
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Print out JDK/JRE version that hotspot knows about.
Reviewed-by: kamg, blacklion, acorn, alanb

Summary: temporarily turn off LinkWellKnownClasses optimization
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: On solaris, the inline assembly wasn't being processed.  Added volatile to il file fixed it.
Reviewed-by: phh, kvn

Summary: Update Hotspot 14 build number to b09
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Fix adds support for verifying arguments with -Xcheck:jni.
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: In os::Linux::rebuild_cpu_to_node_map() fix the size of the CPU bitmap. Fixed arithmetic in MutableNUMASpace::adaptive_chunk_size() that could cause overflows and underflows of the chunk_size variable.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

Summary: Create new "eliminated" BoxLock node for monitor debug info when corresponding locks are eliminated.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Renamed Reference{Policy,Pocessor} methods from snap{,_policy}() to setup{,_policy}()
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

Summary: These changes enable the SA binaries build with hotspot build on Windows
Reviewed-by: swamyv

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: oop stored in unsafely in Lscratch noticed by visual inspection will not be updated by GC.
Reviewed-by: kamg, never, kvn

6774607: SIGSEGV or (!is_null(v),"oop value can never be zero") assertion when running with CMS and COOPs
Summary: Use the more permissive set_klass_or_null() and klass_or_null() interfaces in ParNew's workqueue overflow code that manipulates the klass-word.
Reviewed-by: coleenp