Summary: Added support for AVX extension to the x86 instruction set.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: on T4 2 BIS instructions should be issued to prefetch 64 bytes
Reviewed-by: iveresov, phh, twisti

Summary: correct Icache::line_size for x64 and add verification code into vm_version_x86.
Reviewed-by: never, phh

7044486: open jdk repos have files with incorrect copyright headers, which can end up in src bundles
Reviewed-by: ohair, trims

Summary: The upcoming processors from AMD are the first that support 3dnow prefetch without supporting the 3dnow instruction set.
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Summary: Use hardware DIV instruction for long division by constant when it is faster than code with multiply.
Reviewed-by: never

6934483: GCC 4.5 errors "suggest parentheses around something..." when compiling with -Werror and -Wall
Summary: These are minor changes fixing compile failure when -Wall -Werror flags are used under gcc 4.5.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, rasbold
Contributed-by: NPavel Tisnovsky <ptisnovs@redhat.com>

Summary: Check that cpuid returns valid values for processor topology (not zeros).
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Adjust performance flags settings.
Reviewed-by: never, phh

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: These methods can be instrinsified by using bit scan, bit test, and population count instructions.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: bitCount() should use POPC on SPARC processors where POPC is implemented directly in hardware.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: There is very much duplicated code in vm_version_x86_{32,64}.{cpp,hpp}.  Refactoring these would help maintainability.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified starting July 2008 to Dec 2008
Reviewed-by: katleman, ohair, tbell

Summary: Use SSE2 movdqu in arraycopy stubs on newest Intel's cpus
Reviewed-by: rasbold