8006907: Hotspot should reject classfiles with multiple MethodParameters attributes
Summary: Update to Hotspot's processing of MethodParameters attributes in classfiles
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose

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: On Windows, set rw protection on the CDS file just before removing it.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, iklam

Summary: Introduce a protocol to discover manageble Java instances across a network subnet, JDP
Reviewed-by: sla, dfuchs

Summary: Removed unnecessary shell script in the test.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sla

Summary: Add tests for the Native Memory Tracking feature, includes regression tests for 8005936 and 8004802
Reviewed-by: zgu, coleenp

Summary: Add WB API functions to enable better NMT testing
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu

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

Summary: The invokedynamic bytecode ref to a CP entry needs to be checked and fixed as well.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Simple typos that need to be fixed
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Need a support for invokedynamic entry kinds when new and old constant pools are merged.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: After bug 7161732, On Windows SA could not find correct address of thread_id of OSThread since _thread_id moved to end of the class . The presupposition of the address is following thread handle no longer stands. Fix by adding thread_id field to OSThread and getting the  address directly from OSThread.
Reviewed-by: nloodin, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Recognize VM generated method in old verifier
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavelli@oracle.com

Summary: jcmd <pid> GC.class_stats (UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions)
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, sla, acorn
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

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

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Add a few utility classes to test/testlibrary to support multi process testing in jtreg tests. Added a test case for one of the utility classes. Also reviewed by Vitaly Davidovich
Reviewed-by: brutisso, dholmes, vlivanov, nloodin, mgerdin

Summary: BinaryTreeDictionary is typedef'ed as AFLBinaryTreeDictionary in vmStructs and in SA we still use old name for that. FreeList now is a template based class which is not reflect in SA type library. When SA does calculation of heap for CMS, the former will cause failure to retrieve BinaryTreeDictionary  sine the rename. The later will fail wherever it is used in SA.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla, coleenp
Contributed-by: yunda.mly@taobao.com

Summary: When constant pool is copied in merge_constant_pools the invokedynamic operands must be copied before.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Reordered Klass, InstanceKlass and Method to save 8 bytes each
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jiangli
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com