Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Added NULL check for loopnode() in get_pre_loop_end()
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Reviewed-by: prr, jdv, kcr

Summary: Don't double-free cached class bytes on redefinition loading failure.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, jiangli

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, tschatzl

8155951: VM crash in nsk/jvmti/RedefineClasses/StressRedefine: assert failed: Corrupted constant pool
8151066: assert(0 <= i && i < length()) failed: index out of bounds
Summary: lock classes for redefinition because constant pool merging isn't thread safe, use method constant pool because constant pool merging doesn't make equivalent cpCaches because of invokedynamic
Reviewed-by: shade, andrew

Summary: Prepare Zero build for backport of JDK-8062808.
Reviewed-by: sgehwolf

8226798: JVM crash in klassItable::initialize_itable_for_interface(int, InstanceKlass*, bool, Thread*)
Summary: When calculating vtable size at class load time, do not look for miranda method if matching package private method is found in a super class.
Reviewed-by: acorn, lfoltan

Summary: increase code_size2 for stubs
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: convert the assert into compilation check which will skip superword optimization
Reviewed-by: roland, thartmann

Reviewed-by: thartmann, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

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extra : rebase_source : 51bb75f94058cf96cda1ea902645358e4c3a41fe

Reviewed-by: thartmann
Contributed-by: jitao8@huawei.com

Summary: Fix BCEscapeAnalyzer to correctly handle _getClass intrinsic.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dlong, redestad, neliasso

Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

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extra : rebase_source : e1af5b86db38ac1b7ed27b4f39be267bb8b27d0e

Reviewed-by: dholmes, jcbeyler

Summary: Add memory fences on accesses to JvmtiEnvBase::_tag_map
Reviewed-by: dholmes, jcbeyler, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: goetz

Reviewed-by: shade, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: adinn, shade, andrew

Reviewed-by: neliasso, rkennke, dlong

Summary: Added C2 matching rules to remove unnecessary sign extension for byte array access.
Reviewed-by: roland, kvn, aph, adinn

Reviewed-by: andrew, phh

Summary: Cast to void* within DTRACE_CLASS* macros.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, shade

Summary: Implement _lh_array_tag_type_value as const, not enum.
Reviewed-by: vlivanov, minqi

Reviewed-by: phh, mbalao, bae