8003268: SharedRuntime::generate_native_wrapper doesn't save all registers across runtime tracing calls for JNI critical native methods
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Removed most of the SPARC V8 instructions
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Forced SPARC MacroAssembler eden_alloate to use long branch to slow case
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Changed gen_write_ref_array_post_barrier() code on x64 to pass start address and number of copied oop elements. In generate_checkcast_copy() skip post barrier code if no elements are copied.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: Setting some public integer options to specific values causes crashes or undefined GC behavior. This patchset adds the necessary argument checking for these options.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: Update JNIEXPORT and JNIIMPORT to work with other compilers that don't necessarily have the __attribute__ type qualifier
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Replace ifdefs with SUPPORTS_NATIVE_CX8 set in platform include file
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong

Summary: Fixed broken Zero build.
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp, kvn

Summary: refactored code to allow platform-specific differences
Reviewed-by: dlong, twisti
Contributed-by: NGoetz Lindenmaier <goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com>

Summary: Change jmpb() to jmp().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rdurbin, dcubed

8010460: Interpreter on some platforms loads ConstMethod::_max_stack and misses extra stack slots for JSR 292
Summary: ConstMethod::max_stack() doesn't account for JSR 292 appendix.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8012927: 'assert(nbits == 32 || (-(1 << nbits-1) <= x && x < ( 1 << nbits-1))) failed: value out of range' in interpreter initialization.
Summary: Change br_null_short() to br_null().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

Summary: In do_oop_store the uncompressed value of the oop being stored needs to be preserved and passed to g1_write_barrier_post. This is necessary for the heap region cross check to work correctly.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, johnc
Contributed-by: NMartin Doerr <martin.doerr@sap.com>

Summary: instruct xaddL_no_res shouldn't allow 64 bit constants.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8011582: assert(nbits == 32 || (-(1 << nbits-1) <= x && x < ( 1 << nbits-1))) failed: value out of range
Summary: c1 runtime's predicate_failed_trap should use jump_to on sparc
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Repair wrong code generation, added new matching rule
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: remove JPRT debug builds, remove -DDEBUG -DFASTDEBUG and use ASSERT instead in sources
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, coleenp

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

Summary: Execute vzeroupper instruction after JNI call and on exits in jit compiled code which use 256bit vectors.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: added guarantee() to pd_address_in_code()
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: support for strings that have same life-time as code that uses them.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add guarantee() to oop_result inlines
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: ASSERT and other symbols used incorrectly with #if are supposed to be defined or not.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael

Reviewed-by: kvn, sla

Summary: Zero Symbol* for constant pool strings to indicate pseudo_strings (objects that aren't strings).  Clean up JVM_CONSTANT_Object and unused flags.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, jrose

8009761: Deoptimization on sparc doesn't set Llast_SP correctly in the interpreter frames it creates
Summary: deoptimization doesn't set up callee frames so that they restore caller frames correctly.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Added missing UseSSE42 check. Also added missing avx2 assert for vpermq instruction.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: Disable tiered compilation in jdk8 because of CodeCache and performance anomalies
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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

Summary: Flags changed to be of uintx type
Reviewed-by: johnc, tamao

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

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

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

Summary: Define jlong as long on all LP64 platforms and add JLONG_FORMAT macro.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, mikael, kvn

Summary: HotSpot changes to support @Contended annotation.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, jrose
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NRoman Kennke <rkennke@redhat.com>

Summary: Instead of passing in last_entry to all the VM_ macros just expand it in the main vmStructs.cpp file.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, minqi

Summary: use 256bit vpxor,vptest instructions in String.compareTo() and equals() intrinsics.
Reviewed-by: twisti