Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, hseigel

Summary: Grab and drop SR_lock to get the thread to honor the safepoint protocol
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, rbackman, minqi

Summary: Reserved memory had PROT_READ+PROT_WRITE access on Linux/bsd, now changed to PROT_NONE.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ctornqvi

Summary: Instead of terminating the VM, throw OutOfMemoryError exceptions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Remove support for parsing class files with four-byte flags fields in MethodParameters attributes
Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Re-use InstanceKlass::_init_lock locking ConstantPool as well.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn

Summary: References from operands to CP entries and back must be correct after CP merge
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Change jmpb() to jmp().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rdurbin, dcubed

Summary: Call this function from the ClassLoaderData destructor instead of the system dictionary walk.
Reviewed-by: stefank, mgerdin

Summary: Made NMT query safepoint aware.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: USe err_msg() to create a proper assertion message.
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp, iklam

Summary: Array bound check elimination's in block motion doesn't always reset its data structures from one step to the other.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8012927: 'assert(nbits == 32 || (-(1 << nbits-1) <= x && x < ( 1 << nbits-1))) failed: value out of range' in interpreter initialization.
Summary: Change br_null_short() to br_null().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

Summary: Lambda changes; spec 0.6.2 - remove the restriction that was added as part of recent changes made to support upcoming changes to compilation of lambda methods.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: anti-delta fix for 8010992 until 8012902 can be fixed
Reviewed-by: acorn, minqi, rdurbin

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman
Contributed-by: peter.allwin@oracle.com

Summary: Lazily create and maintain the MemberNameTable to be able to update MemberName's
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: disable use of global operator new and new[] which could cause unexpected exception and escape from NMT tracking.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jcoomes