Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Summary: Replace set() with patchable_set() to generate 8 instructions always.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never, roland

Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Increase the limit of code emitted per LIR instruction, increase the max size of the nmethod generated by C1
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, johnc

Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, stefank, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: Remove region self reference last
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Use BIS for zeroing new allocated big (2Kb and more) objects and arrays.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, ysr

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: fix assert, prefetchnta is supported since SSE not SSE2.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Run test only on systems with 2Gbyte or more memory. Don't zap heap to reduce execution time.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Reviewed-by: johnc

Summary: Move code from finalize_offsets_and_shorten() to fill_buffer() to restore previous behavior.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, never

Summary: on T4 2 BIS instructions should be issued to prefetch 64 bytes
Reviewed-by: iveresov, phh, twisti

Summary: save/restore label and block in scratch_emit_size()
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

Summary: Refactor the allocation code during GC to use the G1AllocRegion abstraction. Use separate subclasses of G1AllocRegion for survivor and old regions. Avoid BOT updates and dirty survivor cards incrementally for the former.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc, ysr

Summary: Use new short branch instruction in C2 generated code.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Handlize MemoryUsage klass oop in createGCInfo routine
Reviewed-by: tonyp, fparain, ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Use cl->is_valid_counted_loop() check.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Buffer overflow in os::get_line_chars
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, dcubed
Contributed-by: aph@redhat.com

Summary: Add a wrapper for sched_getcpu() for systems where libc lacks it
Reviewed-by: ysr
Contributed-by: NAndrew John Hughes <ahughes@redhat.com>

Summary: Use mmap() instead of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) to uncommit pages
Reviewed-by: ysr

Summary: Align the reserved size of the heap and perm to the heap region size to get a preferred heap base that is aligned to the region size, and call the correct heap reservation constructor. Also add a check in the heap reservation code that the reserved space starts at the requested address (if any).
Reviewed-by: kvn, ysr

Summary: replace MemBarAcquire/MemBarRelease nodes on the monitor enter/exit code paths with new MemBarAcquireLock/MemBarReleaseLock nodes
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: gbenson, twisti
Contributed-by: NChris Phillips <chphilli@redhat.com>

Summary: use SA_CLASSDIR variable instead of dirsctory saclasses.
Reviewed-by: kamg, dcubed

Summary: Avoid overcounting when CMS has concurrent mode failure.
Reviewed-by: ysr
Contributed-by: rednaxelafx@gmail.com

Summary: In root processing, move the scanning of the reference processor's discovered lists to before RSet updating and scanning. When scanning the reference processor's discovered lists, use a buffering closure so that the time spent copying any reference object is correctly attributed. Also removed a couple of unused and irrelevant timers.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Summary: Removed predicate cloning from loop peeling optimization and from split fall-in paths.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov