Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: To break spill ties choose bound live range over unbound to free register or one with smaller cost to spill.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Fix problem with the double register encodings in sparc.ad
Reviewed-by: never, jrose
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: For signatures with a large number of arguments the offset for the float store becomes too big and does not fit in 13-bit.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Add IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions for JTreg tests (on a product build) to pass with DeoptimizeALot
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Avoid ideal transformation ping-pong between AddPNode::Ideal() and CastX2PNode::Ideal().
Reviewed-by: cfang

Summary: After mechanically merging changes, some by-hand adjustments are needed.
Reviewed-by: ysr

Summary: Removed the unnecessary #ifdef's which were interfering with the build of the Zero-assembler port
Reviewed-by: ysr, jcoomes

Summary: remove over locking by VMThread on "is thread suspended?" check
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, andrew

Summary: Fix races in jmethodID cache and JNI itable index cache.
Reviewed-by: ikrylov, acorn

Summary: Add missing instance_id meet.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kamg, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Make a special root-list for those few nmethods which might contain non-perm oops.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, jmasa, ysr

Summary: Do nothing for AddP node which has type not related to the type of allocated object.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Druing heap shrinking, check for emptiness of a region before modifying its ZF status.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: filter out non-primitives before deciding whether two ops can be packed
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6875866: Intrinsic for String.indexOf() is broken on x86 with SSE4.2
Summary: Modify String intrinsic methods to pass char[] pointers instead of string oops.
Reviewed-by: never

6877254: Server vm crashes with no branches off of store slice" when run with CMS and UseSuperWord(default)
Summary: design StoreCMNode::Ideal to promote its oopStore input if the input is a MergeMem node
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: The build fails if the bootstrap JDK defaults to <1.5
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Removed second CheckCastPP and use MembarCPUOrder after arraycopy to cloned object.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Fix CDS/CMS option overrides related to iCMS option CMSIncrementalMode; explicate overrides to error stream.
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Look through chained AddP nodes in get_addp_base().
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: Add missing test option -XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Check that a klass is not NULL before the is_loaded() call.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: In load_array_length() cast array's type to TypeOopPtr when calling make_ideal_length() method.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Store the return value of fwrite and check it matches the size of the array.
Reviewed-by: twisti, dholmes