Summary: On PPC64 use tdi instruction that does a compare and raises SIGTRAP for NULL and range checks.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Lowered the MinJumpTableSize for each platform
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: switch on TieredCompilation by default
Reviewed-by: twisti

8014972: Crash with specific values for -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=500K -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=500k
Summary: Introduce a minimum code cache size that guarantees that the VM can startup.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Disable tiered compilation in jdk8 because of CodeCache and performance anomalies
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

Summary: Fix pure c2 builds
Reviewed-by: kvn, brutisso, never

Summary: Enable tiered compilation on server VM by default
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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

Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

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

Summary: Don't align loops in stubs for Niagara sparc since NOPs are expensive.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: Apply modification of existing server heap size ergo to all collectors except CMS.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ysr, xlu