6965570: assert(!needs_patching && x->is_loaded(),"how do we know it's volatile if it's not loaded")
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: arrays pointers meet must fall to bottom if exact array klasses in upper lattice are not equal or super klass is exact.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: This implements adaptive tiered compilation policy.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Ensure safe exception handler table is generated on Win32 binaries when compile with VS2010
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, dcubed, sla, ohair

Summary: Added overflow detection in arena Amalloc methods
Reviewed-by: coleenp, phh

Summary: #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x500
Reviewed-by: ohrstrom, hosterda, coleenp

Summary: Bulk zeroing reduction didn't work with G1, because arraycopy would call pre-barriers on uninitialized oops. The solution is to have version of arraycopy stubs that don't have pre-barriers. Also refactored arraycopy stubs generation on SPARC to be more readable and reduced the number of stubs necessary in some cases.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, never

6725983: Assertion "method->method_holder())->is_not_initialized(),"method holder must be initialized"
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: never, jrose
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: Add special rule to allow assignment of frames with uninit flags set.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp

Summary: Make the G1 specific version of is_in_closed_subset() available in all builds.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, jcoomes

7012914: JSR 292 MethodHandlesTest C1: frame::verify_return_pc(return_address) failed: must be a return pc
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, kamg, hosterda

Summary: copy small (<8) strings on stack if str+16 crosses a page boundary and load from stack into XMM. Back up pointer when loading string's tail.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Dynamic-code generated events should be deferred and processed by service thread
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, dcubed

Summary: Update the HS21 build number to 03
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: removed erroneous flags
Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: The assert in MergeMemNode::memory_at() misses the case when address is TOP.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti