Summary: Behavior of strncmp may be unexpected if char buffers[s] is[are] not null terminated and buffer size is smaller than the length n. Added check to avoid this scenario.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, iklam

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, tschatzl
Contributed-by: richard.reingruber@sap.com

Summary: Added missing code to close file pointer.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: fix Implicit Null Check optimization code.
Reviewed-by: roland, aph

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: don't convert loop with safepoint on the backedge to Counted loop
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Before processing an element in the non-shared overflow buffer, try to push it into the local shared buffer to keep it full.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ehelin, sjohanss

Summary: when speculation fails at a call fallback to profile data at the call site
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Under error conditions, always return -1 and perform null termination regardless of the behavior of underlying vsnprintf() implementation.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, cjplummer

Summary: Add support for AES intrinsics on PPC64.
Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr, simonis, zmajo
Contributed-by: NHiroshi H Horii <horii@jp.ibm.com>

Summary: Method::deallocate_contents() should clear 'this' from list of Methods in JNIMethodBlock, when class is unloaded.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

8042660: vm/mlvm/anonloader/stress/byteMutation failed with: assert(index >=0 && index < _length) failed: symbol index overflow
Summary: Detect zero length signatures and throw ClassFormatError before bad dereference occurs
Reviewed-by: hseigel

Reviewed-by: jbachorik, egahlin, ykantser, mtobiass

Reviewed-by: pliden, tschatzl

Summary: Need to specify /othervm in annotation section if jvm command line option -Xbatch is specified.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Correct backport of 8159244.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fixed string comparison and indentation
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Adjust instruction generation.
Reviewed-by: goetz
Contributed-by: gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com, horii@jp.ibm.com

Summary: MetadataOnStackMark must be done before calling free_deallocate_list().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn