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

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

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

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

Summary: Increase default string table size to 60013 for 64-bit platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Add the -Wunused-function flag and remove a number of unused functions.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, kvn

Summary: Supply a new flag -XX:+AssumeMP to workaround the problem. With the flag is turned on, assume VM run on MP platform so is_MP() will return true that sync calls will not skip away.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, dcubed, jmasa
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Put UseSplitVerifier option on the deprecated list.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kmo, acorn

Summary: Ergonomics now also takes available virtual memory into account when deciding for a heap size. The helper method to determine the maximum allocatable memory block now uses the appropriate OS specific calls to retrieve available virtual memory for the java process. In 32 bit environments this method now also searches for the maximum actually reservable amount of memory. Merge previously separate implementations for Linux/BSD/Solaris into a single method.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tamao

Summary: Remove the related assertions becasue they do not hold here.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: Take the initial heap size into account when checking the heap size for compressed oops
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kvn, hseigel, ctornqvi

Summary: The minimal JVM is printing a warning message for default settings when it should quitely ignore them.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Deprecate MaxGCMinorPauseMillis and emit a warning if set by users
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

8008310: Some adjustments needed to minimal VM warnings and errors for unsupported command line options
Summary: Changes to arguments.cpp for warnings vs. errors.  Changes for CDS arguments.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, cjplummer

Summary: Modify WhiteBoxAPI to use interface classes from test/testlibrary instead, add ClassFileInstaller to resolve the boot class path issue
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, dsamersoff, coleenp, kvn

Summary: Fix warning messages when selected garbage collectors are excluded from the minimal jvm.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, cjplummer

Summary: Perform verification during VM startup under control of new flag and within a VMOperation.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, brutisso

Summary: Set ReservedCodeCacheSize to (default value)*5 when TieredCompilation is on.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8000968: NPG: UseCompressedKlassPointers asserts with ObjectAlignmentInBytes for > 32G CompressedOops
Summary: Pick a base that works for both CompressedOpps alignment and CompressedKlassPtrs alignment.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

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

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

Summary: A warning message should be displayed if these options are used with the Minimal VM.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm, coleenp, stefank

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

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

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

Summary: Print an error message and exit the VM if UseParallalGC is combined with ParllelGCThreads==0. Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com.
Reviewed-by: stefank, ehelin

Summary: Save the alignment when writing the CDS and compare it when reading the CDS.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm

Summary: Log warning messages for DefNew+CMS and ParNew+SerialOld
Reviewed-by: ysr, jwilhelm, jcoomes

8005396: Use ParNew with only one thread instead of DefNew as default for CMS on single CPU machines
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jcoomes

Summary: post parse inlining driven by number of live nodes.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, jrose

Summary: Phase 2 is removing '_g' support from the Runtime code.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp, hseigel
Contributed-by: ron.durbin@oracle.com

Summary: The flags MinHeapDeltaBytes and UseNUMAInterleaving must be adjusted after the OS have adjusted the UseNUMA flag in the method os::init_2.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, brutisso
Contributed-by: erik.helin@oracle.com

Summary: Check that the values specified for -XX:StringTableSize are within a certain range.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Disable -XX:+UseLargePages for MacOS X
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Remove support for the UseVectoredExceptions flag
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kamg
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Added code to write the value of the java.class.path property to the hs_err file.
Reviewed-by: kmo, dholmes, kvn
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: The -XX:+UseVMInterruptibleIO flag is deprecated for JDK8.  The flag will still enable Interruptible IO on Solaris, but users will get a warning.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, alanb
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com