8011898: gc/TestVerifyBeforeGCDuringStartup.java: java.lang.RuntimeException: '[Verifying' missing from stdout/stderr: [Error: Could not find or load main class]
Summary: System.getProperty("test.java.opts") can return NULL, which gets converted to to the empty string, and the child java command then interprets that as the name of the main class.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgerdin

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

Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Summary: In graphKit INT operations were generated to access PtrQueue::_index which has type size_t. This is 64 bit on 64-bit machines. No problems occur on little endian machines as long as the index fits into 32 bit, but on big endian machines the upper part is read, which is zero. This leads to unnecessary branches to the slow path in the runtime.
Reviewed-by: twisti, johnc
Contributed-by: NMartin Doerr <martin.doerr@sap.com>

Summary: Move initialization of dependencies to before allocation of CLD
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp

Summary: Stack allocate instances of HeapRegionRemSetIterator during RSet scanning.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jwilhelm

Summary: Restructure initialization of ClassLoaderData to not add a new instance if init_dependencies fail
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso, stefank

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: mgerdin

8012455: Missing time and date stamps for PrintGCApplicationConcurrentTime and PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime
Summary: also reviewed by: kirk@kodewerk.com, brandon@twitter.com
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, stefank, johnc

Summary: In do_oop_store the uncompressed value of the oop being stored needs to be preserved and passed to g1_write_barrier_post. This is necessary for the heap region cross check to work correctly.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, johnc
Contributed-by: NMartin Doerr <martin.doerr@sap.com>

Reviewed-by: iris, mduigou, jjg

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

8012052: java/lang/invoke/6987555/Test6987555.java crashes with assert(mcs != NULL) failed: MethodCounters cannot be NULL.
Summary: Skip counter decay if the MethodCounters is NULL in NonTieredCompPolicy::delay_compilation().
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn, kmo, shade

Summary: add missing ResourceMark under TraceMethodHandles in LinkResolver
Reviewed-by: dholmes