Summary: Add a WhiteBox callback to the VM to start a concurrent mark cycle in G1.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, sjohanss
Contributed-by: NLeonid Mesnik <leonid.mesnik@oracle.com>

Summary: Add a new compiler phase, PhaseRenumberLive, that renumbers live nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann, vlivanov, shade

Summary: Improve the thread and threads commands in CLHSDB
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff

Summary: Rewrote compressed oops tests
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, mseledtsov

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, stuefe

Summary: Thread id is now displayed as a hex number in error report.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, hseigel, stuefe

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, vlivanov

Summary: for fixing a truncation problem on the output from -XX:+TraceClassPaths
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jiangli, cjplummer, minqi

Summary: Wrapped the test in another layer process creation to avoid NMT being turned on.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Reviewed-by: mdoerr, goetz
Contributed-by: asmundak@google.com

Summary: Register R12 must be preserved for stub calls (e.g. deopt handler).
Reviewed-by: goetz

Summary: Backport subset of 8075967 fix that resolves this issue.
Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Add necessary memory fences so that the parallel threads are unable to observe partially filled block tables.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl

Summary: Use __builtin_frame_address(0) rather than returning address of local variable.
Reviewed-by: dholmes

8130910: hsperfdata file is created in wrong directory and not cleaned up if /tmp/hsperfdata_<username> has wrong permissions
Summary: Add check for fchir() failure and disable shared PerfMemory in that case.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, simonis, gthornbr

Summary: Add exceptions for A*FU subclasses that do the actual work.
Reviewed-by: jrose, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: dholmes
Contributed-by: NShafi Ahmad <shafi.s.ahmad@oracle.com>

Summary: Change MacroAssembler::verified_entry() to set up RBP correctly when generating stub code.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Remove ResourceMark in StackMapReader::parse_verification_type() to avoid freeing of error message.
Reviewed-by: zmajo, dcubed, hseigel

Summary: Clean ICs of unloaded nmethods in sweeper to avoid impact on safepoint duration.
Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr

Summary: Removed nmethod transition to zombie outside of sweeper. Added cleaning of ICs of unloaded nmethods.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Remove active ICStubs from zombie nmethods
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov