Summary: Add WB API functions to enable better NMT testing
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu

Summary: Change error messages for malformed options so the messages are more useful.
Reviewed-by: mikael, kvn, nloodin

Summary: Recognize VM generated method in old verifier
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavelli@oracle.com

Summary: jcmd <pid> GC.class_stats (UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions)
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, sla, acorn
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Summary: Removed depreciated kernel VM source code from hotspot VM
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Add a few utility classes to test/testlibrary to support multi process testing in jtreg tests. Added a test case for one of the utility classes. Also reviewed by Vitaly Davidovich
Reviewed-by: brutisso, dholmes, vlivanov, nloodin, mgerdin

Summary: BinaryTreeDictionary is typedef'ed as AFLBinaryTreeDictionary in vmStructs and in SA we still use old name for that. FreeList now is a template based class which is not reflect in SA type library. When SA does calculation of heap for CMS, the former will cause failure to retrieve BinaryTreeDictionary  sine the rename. The later will fail wherever it is used in SA.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla, coleenp
Contributed-by: yunda.mly@taobao.com

Summary: When constant pool is copied in merge_constant_pools the invokedynamic operands must be copied before.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: treat anonymous classes as privileged code to restore the special handling for @Compiled during class file parsing
Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, kvn, dholmes

Summary: Limit vectors size to 16 bytes on BSD until the problem is fixed
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Added on_stack bit to flags.  Also MetadataMarkOnStack is used for more than JVMTI so had to be moved.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, stefank

Summary: Use SSE4.2 and AVX2 instructions for encodeArray intrinsic.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: pass the output stream to node->dump() and everything reachable from there
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

Summary: Don't handle CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT event when the process is running in a non-interactive session
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, acorn

Summary: check_for_valid_safepoint_state() only applies to blocking VM ops
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, dice, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: karen.kinnear@oracle.com

Summary: misc correctness fixes
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, dice, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: dave.dice@oracle.com

Summary: Add missing Handle.
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, dice, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: karen.kinnear@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, brutisso

Summary: Use HW_MEMSIZE instead of HW_USERMEM to get a 64 bit value of the physical memory on the machine. Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com.
Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes, dlong, mikael

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: fix increment problem with saved_version
Reviewed-by: dholmes