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: Introduce a new register class, reg_class_dynamic, that supports also cist-spillable masks.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dlong, roland

Summary: CmpU needs to be reprocessed by CCP when an AddI/SubI input's input type change
Reviewed-by: mcberg, kvn, roland
Contributed-by: andreas.eriksson@oracle.com

Summary: the cached class file structure must be deallocated instead of the cached class file bytes
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sla

8061715: gc/g1/TestShrinkAuxiliaryData15.java fails with java.lang.RuntimeException: heap decommit failed - after > before
Summary: added WhiteBox methods to count regions and exact aux data sizes
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso

Summary: Prevent vectorization of memory operations with different invariant offsets if unaligned memory accesses are not allowed.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: C2 should not try to vectorize loops with loop variant vector base address.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Don't assume SATB buffer entries are valid objects
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ecaspole

Summary: Null the InterpreterRuntime::member_name_arg_or_null return value when it is necessary
Reviewed-by: jbachorik, coleenp, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, iignatyev

Summary: Optimize the method pointer adjustments for prev klass versions and MNT
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Reviewed-by: stuefe, dsamersoff, dcubed

Summary: NMT with detail option reports incorrect caller address on Linux.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Removed no longer valid checking of SATB buffers
Reviewed-by: jmasa, pliden

Summary: Apply closure directly, eliminating registration.
Reviewed-by: stefank, tschatzl

Summary: Removed the Solaris specific conditionalization for casting to void * within calls to HS_DTRACE_PROBE* to enable successful compilation with gcc Red Hat 4.4.6-4.
Reviewed-by: hseigel, stefank

Summary: Removed pre-filter verify, and made filtering more careful.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Prevent eager reclaim of objects that might be on mark stack.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Eliminate _CHECK_BOTH_FINGERS_ and simplify.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: check that offset % mem_oper_size == 0 when alignment is verified during vectorization.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: meet of 2 constant arrays result in bottom
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: remove the assert and deallocate cashed class file bytes that are in collision
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: A dead scope  of the local needs to be identified
Reviewed-by: coleenp, vlivanov, mgronlun

Summary: For *store bytecodes, compare incoming, not outgoing, type state with exception handlers' stack maps.
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes

Summary: Instead of 'fpclass', use cast float->int and double->long to check if value is +0.0f and +0.0d, respectively.
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis, dlong

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ecaspole

8046246: the constantPoolCacheOopDesc::adjust_method_entries() used in RedefineClasses does not scale
Summary: optimize the adjust_method_entries functions by using the orig_method_idnum() function
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: Relax the guaranty for deleted methods
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Fixed by removing all code related to LowMemoryProtection, which removed offending code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi

Summary: default methods added to classes confuse dependency processing
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: lfoltan, sspitsyn

Summary: use method cpref and klass version to provide meaningful methods name in stacktraces
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: Warning when not checking exceptions from function that require so, also when local refs expand beyond capacity.
Reviewed-by: dsimms

Summary: Escape state of allocated object should be always adjusted after it was passed to a method.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Force all Solaris builds to use the same version of the DIR structure.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, kvn

Reviewed-by: kbarrett, dholmes

Summary: Added better debug-printing support and enhanced LogCompilation tool
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, dholmes

Summary: Check for overflow when inverting the loop during the counted loop conversion
Reviewed-by: kvn

8049881: jstack not working on core files
Summary: These changes add some definitions on the SA side and the supporting code on the hotspot side.
Reviewed-by: sla, dsamersoff, mgronlun