Summary: Add NULL checks and asserts for Type::make_ptr() returned value.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Refactor G1's hot card cache and card counts table into their own files. Simplify the card counts table, including removing the encoding of the card index in each entry. The card counts table now has a 1:1 correspondence with the cards spanned by heap. Space for the card counts table is reserved from virtual memory (rather than C heap) during JVM startup and is committed/expanded when the heap is expanded. Changes were also reviewed-by Vitaly Davidovich.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, johnc, tschatzl

8013032: CMS: assert(used() == used_after_gc && used_after_gc <= capacity()) failed: used: 0 used_after_gc: 292080 capacity: 1431699456
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, mgerdin, johnc

Summary: Resurrected autobox elimination code and enabled part of it by default.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

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

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, coleenp

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

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: Refactored shrink_by() to only use region counts and not byte sizes
Reviewed-by: johnc, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Make processing of minimum, initial and maximum heap size more intiutive by removing previous limitations on allowed values, and make error reporting consistent. Further, fix errors in ergonomic heap sizing.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm, tamao

8013120: NMT: Kitchensink crashes with assert(next_region == NULL || !next_region->is_committed_region()) failed: Sanity check
Summary: Fixed NMT to deal with releasing virtual memory region when there are still committed regions within it
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp

8013648: Guarantee(VerifyBeforeGC || VerifyDuringGC || VerifyBeforeExit || VerifyAfterGC) failed: too expensive
Summary: Fix code to call correct version of function find_class().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rdurbin, dcubed

Summary: Make sure max alignemnt is at least as large as min alignment
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: acorn, sla

Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: mchung, hseigel, coleenp

Summary: Make sure that _num_jvm_args is not updated until the new entry to _jvm_args_array has been added
Reviewed-by: johnc, tamao, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

Summary: remove unused parameter in dtrace macros
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: albert.noll@oracle.com

Summary: Do not treat static methods as miranda methods.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, hseigel

Summary: Grab and drop SR_lock to get the thread to honor the safepoint protocol
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Reserved memory had PROT_READ+PROT_WRITE access on Linux/bsd, now changed to PROT_NONE.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ctornqvi

Summary: Instead of terminating the VM, throw OutOfMemoryError exceptions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Keep sweeping regardless of if we are flushing
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8013129: Possible deadlock with Metaspace locks due to mixed usage of safepoint aware and non-safepoint aware locking
Summary: Change Metaspace::deallocate to take lock with _no_safepoint_check_flag
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, alanb, cjplummer, olagneau
Contributed-by: NCarlos Lucasius <carlos.lucasius@oracle.com>

Summary: Change the assert to if check as MethodCounters could be NULL under TieredCompilation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Summary: Remove support for parsing class files with four-byte flags fields in MethodParameters attributes
Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgerdin

Summary: remove unused constructors and helper methods for ReservedHeapSpace and ReservedSpace
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jmasa, johnc, tschatzl

Summary: Re-use InstanceKlass::_init_lock locking ConstantPool as well.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: References from operands to CP entries and back must be correct after CP merge
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

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