Summary: Introduce and initialize active_processor_count variable in VM.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, jprovino

Reviewed-by: simonis, tschatzl, mgerdin, dlong
Contributed-by: gunter.haug@sap.com

Summary: Uninitialised memory in set_uintx_flag of attachListener.cpp
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

Summary: made 8027631 first arg skip applicable to not inlined virtual callsite too.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jcm

Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Summary: Mismatched stores on same slice possible with Unsafe.Put*Unaligned methods
Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Summary: Always obtain return type from declared_signature for Invoke::declared_type. TypeCast return value to declared_signature return type for inlined lforms.
Reviewed-by: kvn, kevinw

Summary: fixed the jvms for callsite traps based on declared signature.
Reviewed-by: jcm, coleenp, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: stefank

Summary: Store additional information in PhiNodes corresponding to known instance field values to avoid incorrect reusage.
Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Summary: Add missing cache_line_size > 0 checks.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Backport change to correct interface initialization.
Reviewed-by: gtriantafill, sspitsyn, dholmes

Summary: Go to thread_in_vm to get the class_loader oop. Also reviewed by leelamohan.venati@gmail.com.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Putting a comma after the year in GPL header.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, tschatzl

Summary: Behavior of strncmp may be unexpected if char buffers[s] is[are] not null terminated and buffer size is smaller than the length n. Added check to avoid this scenario.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, iklam

Summary: use processor_count(), not active_processor_count() to determine physical number of CPUs
Reviewed-by: rehn, cjplummer

Summary: extract processor count from sched_getaffinity mask
Reviewed-by: dholmes, gthornbr

Summary: fix Implicit Null Check optimization code.
Reviewed-by: roland, aph

Summary: Under error conditions, always return -1 and perform null termination regardless of the behavior of underlying vsnprintf() implementation.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, cjplummer

Summary: Method::deallocate_contents() should clear 'this' from list of Methods in JNIMethodBlock, when class is unloaded.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

8042660: vm/mlvm/anonloader/stress/byteMutation failed with: assert(index >=0 && index < _length) failed: symbol index overflow
Summary: Detect zero length signatures and throw ClassFormatError before bad dereference occurs
Reviewed-by: hseigel

Reviewed-by: pliden, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: acorn, mschoene
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jrose, hseigel, vlivanov, bmoloden, ctornqvi, mschoene

Reviewed-by: rprotacio

Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: NXiang Yuan &lt;xiang.yuan@linaro.org&gt;, Zoltan Majo <zoltan.majo@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: pliden

Summary: Correct backport of 8159244.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: don't convert loop with safepoint on the backedge to Counted loop
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Before processing an element in the non-shared overflow buffer, try to push it into the local shared buffer to keep it full.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ehelin, sjohanss

Summary: when speculation fails at a call fallback to profile data at the call site
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Under error conditions, always return -1 and perform null termination regardless of the behavior of underlying vsnprintf() implementation.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, cjplummer

Summary: Add support for AES intrinsics on PPC64.
Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr, simonis, zmajo
Contributed-by: NHiroshi H Horii <horii@jp.ibm.com>

Summary: Method::deallocate_contents() should clear 'this' from list of Methods in JNIMethodBlock, when class is unloaded.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: gthornbr, hseigel, mschoene
Contributed-by: gerard.ziemski@oracle.com

Summary: Emit release barrier after String creation to prevent partially initialized object from escaping.
Reviewed-by: kvn