Summary: Implement Safefetch as stub routines. This reduces compiler and os dependencies.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

8017571: JSR292: JVM crashing on assert "cast to instanceKlass" while producing MethodHandle for array methods with MethodHandle.findVirtual
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

8015391: NPG: With -XX:+UseCompressedKlassPointers OOME due to exhausted metadata space could occur when metaspace is almost empty
Summary: Allocate medium chunks for class metaspace when class loader has lots of classes
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jmasa

8014972: Crash with specific values for -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=500K -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=500k
Summary: Introduce a minimum code cache size that guarantees that the VM can startup.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Undo recent changes (and add more comments) in Ideal_allocation().
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: cast the offending expressions to (void)
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: The fix is basically a backport of JDK-7019165 (pstack issue) to jhelper.d.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: tomas.hurka@oracle.com

Summary: The auto corrector for mistyped vm options fuzzy-matches existing flags based on string similarity (Dice's coefficient).
Reviewed-by: kvn, dsamersoff, hseigel, johnc

Summary: The assert is invalid when a card is being refined by two different threads and its count crosses the hot threshold - the refinement count will be updated once by each thread triggering the assert. Remove the assert and update the count using a bounded expression.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tamao, brutisso

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso, jmasa, ysr
Contributed-by: per.liden@oracle.com

Summary: Set HeapBaseMinAddress as default rather than ergo
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, kvn

Reviewed-by: tbell, darcy

Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso, mgronlun

Reviewed-by: jmasa, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso

Reviewed-by: johnc, tschatzl

Summary: Minimize redundant verifications of Klasses.
Reviewed-by: hseigel, jmasa

Summary: Replace _indy by _jsr292 and also fix VERIFY_OOP macros.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Replaces unused decodeN at MemBarAcquire with its corresponding loadN if loadN is used at more than one place.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: remove unused breakpoint relocation type
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Added Atomic::inc(short*) to support this change.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed, dholmes, minqi

Summary: Add code pc location for compiled code
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp
Contributed-by: doug.simon@oracle.com

Summary: Detect this crash in the signal handler and give a fatal error message instead of making us chase down bugs that don't reproduce
Reviewed-by: kvn, mgerdin, dholmes

Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes

Summary: Reduce default size of Thread::_metadata_handles from 300 to 30
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Missing linebreak in hotspot log.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl
Contributed-by: vladimir.kempik@oracle.com

8001345: VM crashes with assert(n->outcnt() != 0 || C->top() == n || n->is_Proj()) failed: No dead instructions after post-alloc
Summary: Remove unnecessary LoadN / DecodeN nodes at MemBarAcquire nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, dholmes, coleenp, johnc

Summary: Parallelize the scanning of the intern string table by having each GC worker claim a given number of buckets. Changes were also reviewed by Per Liden <per.liden@oracle.com>.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, stefank, twisti

Summary: Windows reserves and only partially commits thread stack. For detecting more thread stack space for execution,  Windows installs one-shot page as guard page just before the current commited edge. It will trigger STACK_OVERFLOW_EXCEPTION when lands on last 4 pages of thread stack space. StackYellowPages default value is 2 on Windows (plus 1 page of StackRedPages, 3 pages guarded by hotspot) so the exception happens one page before Yellow pages. Same route executed second time will have one more page brought in, this leads same execution with different stack depth(interpreter mode). We need match Windows settings so the stack overflow exception will not happen before Yellow pages.
Reviewed-by: dholmes
Contributed-by: andreas.schoesser@sap.com

Summary: Fixed NMT race condition for realloc, uncommit and release
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung

Summary: modify declaration of 'swap' overloading; dodge optimizer bug in c1_LIR.cpp
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: dcubed, mgronlun

Summary: Increase HeapBaseMinAddress for G1 from 256m to 1g on Solaris x86
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, kvn

8016157: During CTW: C2: assert(!def_outside->member(r)) failed: Use of external LRG overlaps the same LRG defined in this block
Summary: Disable rematerialization for negD node
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: replace linked data structure with array (performance)
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: christian.thalinger@oracle.com, david.r.chase@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

Reviewed-by: zgu, coleenp
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: changed AND to OR
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com