Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: JFR needs this fix to run on PPC
Reviewed-by: sla, mikael

Summary: Implementation of JDK 8 JVMS 5.4.3.4 specification change to skip static and non-public methods of java.lang.Object for interface method resolution.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

8029153: [TESTBUG] test/compiler/7141637/SpreadNullArg.java fails because it expects NullPointerException
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8029106: JVM crashes in Metachunk::Metachunk during parallel class redefinition (PrivateMLetController, anonymous-simple_copy_1)
Summary: Fixed overflow bug in VirtualSpaceNode::is_available
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso, coleenp, jmasa

Summary: Reducing the number of calls to follow_class_loader to speed up the marking phase. Also removed some unnecessary calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: check the state of caller and callee nmethods and skip call site patching if any of them is not alive
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

8029415: java/lang/reflect/Method/invoke/TestPrivateInterfaceMethodReflect.java fails on all platforms with hs25-b61
Summary: Check first that a class is not a dynamically-generated bytecode associated with 1.4 reflection implementation, to emitting an ICCE of an invokespecial IMR of a method in an indirect superinterface.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, sspitsyn

Summary: SA missed some TLABs
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, mgerdin, brutisso

Summary: Use the anonymous class's host class for protected access checks
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, lfoltan

Summary: Use non-relocatable code to load byte_map_base
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

8028126: nsk/jvmti/scenarios/hotswap/HS101/hs101t006 Crashed the vm on Solaris-sparc64 fastdebug builds: only current thread can flush its registers
Summary: Fix a race between VMOp_GetCurrentLocation reaching a safepoint and arget thread exiting from Java execution
Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes, dsamersoff
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: hseigel, lfoltan, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, lfoltan, hseigel

Summary: Now iterating over all committed (used) G1 regions instead of all reserved.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, dsamersoff, mgerdin

Summary: fix code to allow testing on Fujitsu Sparc64 CPUs
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes