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

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: 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: Add "3" to list of allowable versions
Reviewed-by: kamg, chrisphi

Summary: Fix so the JPRT can build with -release jdk8 now
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Change JDK_MINOR_VER and JDK_PREVIOUS_VERSION to reflect JDK8 values
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Update the OOME stacktrace to contain Throwable.UNASSIGNED_STACK when the backtrace is filled in
Reviewed-by: mchung, phh

Summary: check for single stepping when dispatching invokes from method handles
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, kvn, dsamersoff

Summary: Test is modified to reduce number of iterations in test5() and test6().
Reviewed-by: never, iveresov

Summary: Missing suffix "A" of Windows API LookupPrivilegeValue failed finding function pointer, caused VM to disable UseLargePages option
Reviewed-by: coleenp, phh

Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, jwilhelm, kvn

Summary: Pass arguments to runtime via java array for arrays with > 5 dimensions
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, jrose, pbk

Summary: Use new VIS3 mov instructions on T4 for move data between general and float registers.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, jwilhelm, kvn

Summary: do explicit lookup emulating old LD_LIBRARY_PATH search
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, jwilhelm, kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, jwilhelm, kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, jwilhelm, kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, jwilhelm, kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, jwilhelm, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kamg, dsamersoff