Summary: On PPC64 use tdi instruction that does a compare and raises SIGTRAP for NULL and range checks.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use new nodes for loadFence/storeFence intrinsics in C2.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, egahlin

Reviewed-by: dcubed, sla

Summary: Move handle_full_code_cache() out of block that forbids safepoints
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Change _abstract_method_handler to return AbstractMethodError i2c, c2i and c2iv entries.
Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: roland, kvn

Summary: MagicLambdaImpl was removed from jdk side, this should be done in vm side too
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, rdurbin

Summary: Fixed proper sweeping of small code cache sizes
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

7057939: jmap shows MaxNewSize=4GB when Java is using parallel collector
Summary: Major cleanup of the collectorpolicy classes
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: stefank, ehelin, ysr, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: jrose, roland

Summary: force TypeProfileLevel to 0 on non x86
Reviewed-by: twisti

8026877: Error in opening JAR file when invalid jar specified with -Xbootclasspath/a on OpenJDK build
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti

Summary: record unused type profile information with type system, propagate and use it.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for parameters on method entries
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Cleanup related to the NewSize and MaxNewSize bugs
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jcoomes, ehelin

8005810: Update Hotspot Serviceability Agent for Method Parameter Reflection and Generic Type Signature Data
Summary: Hotspot was updated to store method parameter reflection and generic type signature data at runtime.  Serviceability agent support was updated for this data
Reviewed-by: coleenp, minqi, sla
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl, kmo, tamao

Summary: Remove duplicate print
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Using strtod() instead of atof() when parsing -Xminf and -Xmaxf.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, pliden

Summary: Descriptions for Max/MinHeapFreeRatio updated
Reviewed-by: ehelin, jmasa

Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for return values at calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8005173: assert(false) failed: DEBUG MESSAGE: exception oop must be empty (macroAssembler_x86.cpp:625)
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Ensure ensure correct initialization of compiler runtime
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for arguments at calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

Summary: New default methods list with inherited superinterface methods
Reviewed-by: minqi, sspitsyn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa, coleenp

Summary: Move protection domain oops from system dictionary entries into a seperate set; the system dictionary references entries in that set now. This allows fast iteration during non-classunloading garbage collection. Implementation based on initial prototype from Ioi Lam (iklam).
Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam

Summary: Fix typos and errors in descriptions of vm options in globals.hpp
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

Summary: Add a new initialization function to VirtualSpace which allows the caller to override the max commit granularity.
Reviewed-by: stefank, ehelin, tschatzl

Summary: Changed a few descriptions and variable names to young gen.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jcoomes

Summary: Code cache sweeping based on method hotness; removed speculatively disconnect
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn