Reviewed-by: andrew

8173373: C1: NPE is thrown instead of LinkageError when accessing inaccessible field on NULL receiver
Summary: Deoptimize if receiver null check of unresolved field access fails to throw NoClassDefFoundError instead of NPE.
Reviewed-by: vlivanov

Summary: Check values returned by ciMethodData::bci_to_data() where necessary.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Reviewed-by: stuefe, coleenp, roland

Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: refactor close to remove references to closed ports
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis, sgehwolf, dholmes

Summary: Fix UnsafeRawOp optimizations
Reviewed-by: kvn, drchase, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: iveresov, roland

Summary: Introduce the PreserveFramePointer flag to control if RBP is used as the frame pointer or as a general purpose register.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, dlong, enevill, shade

Summary: method handle call to c1 intrinsic tries to profile popped argument
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: profiling code in interpreter broken when argument profiling is off.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

8037140: C1: Incorrect argument type used for SharedRuntime::OSR_migration_end in LIRGenerator::do_Goto
Summary: Fix the type of osrBuffer parameter to depend on bitness
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Summary: c1 and interpreter support for new type profiling on sparc
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Get types from LIR instructions instead of HIR
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for parameters on method entries
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Fixed displacement issues in SPARC macroassembler and ensure that getClass intrinsic temporary result is T_METADATA
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Fix wrong calling convention in LIR_Assembler::emit_unwind_handler(), T_METADATA support in calling convention generator, C1 register allocator
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for return values at calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for arguments at calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: C1's GetUnsafeObject G1 pre-barrier uses the wrong type to read the klass pointer.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Summary: add intrinsics using new instruction to interpreter, C1, C2, for suitable x86; add test
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: added guarantee()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: missing #ifdef ASSERT
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Allocate the method's profiling related metadata until they are needed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Summary: Add the -Wunused-function flag and remove a number of unused functions.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, kvn

8010934: assert failure in c1_LinearScan.cpp: "asumption: non-Constant instructions have only virtual operands"
Summary: incorrect code to skip some ArrayLength instructions in LIRGenerator
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: when possible optimize out array bound checks, inserting predicates when needed.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: Nthomaswue <thomas.wuerthinger@oracle.com>

Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

Summary: Add three memory-ordering intrinsics to the sun.misc.Unsafe class.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: C1 needs knowledge of T_METADATA at the LIR level.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Don't decompress the klass pointer in the G1 pre-barrier code when !UseCompressedKlassPointers
Reviewed-by: coleenp, brutisso

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, jrose