Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, shade, dholmes, acorn

Summary: Fixes a bug introduced by 8029302
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Added special case for x^y where y == 2
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, ehelin

8040085: dtrace/jsdt tests crash on solaris. found an unadvertised bad scavengable oop in the code cache
Summary: Add CodeCache::add_scavenge_root_nmethod(this) to the dtrace-constructor of nmethod
Reviewed-by: roland, iveresov

8039298: assert(base == NULL || t_adr->isa_rawptr() || !phase->type(base)->higher_equal(TypePtr::NULL_PTR))
Summary: Convert the assert into the runtime check to skip IGVN optimizations for problematic memory nodes. Eliminate dead nodes more aggressively.
Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

Summary: temporary set UseAVX=1 and UseSSE=2 in generate_get_cpu_info()
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Allow replay compilation with replay file parsing error.
Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

8042281: compiler/7184394/TestAESMain.java fails with: javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException: Input length not multiple of 16 bytes
Summary: Added missing -DmsgSize=640 to test's run commands.
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@oracle.com

Summary: Fix the arbitrary alignment issue in SPARC AES crypto stub routines.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: profiling code in interpreter broken when argument profiling is off.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

8029436: CICompilerCount is not updated when the number of compiler threads is adjusted to the number of CPUs
Summary: CICompilerCount is updated in AdvancedThresholdPolicy::initialize, SimpleThresholdPolicy::initialize and NonTieredCompPolicy::initialize. A warning is printed if the usersets both, CICompilerCount and CICompilerCountPerCPU.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NTobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn

Summary: Switch UseRTMXendForLockBusy flag ON by default and change code to retry RTM locking on lock busy condition by default.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: Remove the misleading malloc macro and cleanup the code
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, kvn
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com