Summary: allocate method annotations and attach to ConstMethod if present
Reviewed-by: dcubed, jiangli, sspitsyn, iklam

Summary: Removed is_kernel_jvm from jvm_version_info as Kernel VM has been deprecated
Reviewed-by: mchung, coleenp

Summary: Enforce more restricted hs_file permission
Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed, dsamersoff

8006423: SA: NullPointerException in sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.bsd.BsdThread.getContext(BsdThread.java:67)
Summary: Do not rely on mach thread port names to identify threads from SA
Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi, rbackman

Summary: Add/refine new tracing support using -XX:TraceRedefineClasses=16384.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, sspitsyn

Summary: check ndimensions before accessing length[i] element
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: Reuse the parallel reference processing oop closures during serial reference processing.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov
Contributed-by: NIgor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: NJeremy Manson <jeremymanson@google.com>

Summary: Flush any deferred card mark before a Java thread exits.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Fix off-by-one error
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

8006907: Hotspot should reject classfiles with multiple MethodParameters attributes
Summary: Update to Hotspot's processing of MethodParameters attributes in classfiles
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose

8000968: NPG: UseCompressedKlassPointers asserts with ObjectAlignmentInBytes for > 32G CompressedOops
Summary: Pick a base that works for both CompressedOpps alignment and CompressedKlassPtrs alignment.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: wrong detection for dead call sites.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: missing test for loaded klass in c1
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: On Windows, set rw protection on the CDS file just before removing it.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, iklam

Summary: Introduce a protocol to discover manageble Java instances across a network subnet, JDP
Reviewed-by: sla, dfuchs

Summary: Fix size checks in assert and corrected some print formats. Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Add WB API functions to enable better NMT testing
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu

Summary: Set ConcGCThreads to the calculated number of marking threads.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ysr

Summary: Change error messages for malformed options so the messages are more useful.
Reviewed-by: mikael, kvn, nloodin

Summary: The invokedynamic bytecode ref to a CP entry needs to be checked and fixed as well.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Simple typos that need to be fixed
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Need a support for invokedynamic entry kinds when new and old constant pools are merged.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Check that the concurrent marking worker gang exists in ConcurrentMark::print_worker_threads_on(). Changes were also reviewed by Vitaly Davidovich <vitalyd@gmail.com>.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: When calculating live object regions, make sure that the alignment reserve, at the end of a TLAB, is excluded.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: Recognize VM generated method in old verifier
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavelli@oracle.com

Summary: Heap size will be set to allow for OldSize to fit. Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: ehelin, jmasa

Summary: removed unused IA64 specific code
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, dholmes

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov
Contributed-by: NIgor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov
Contributed-by: NIgor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>

Summary: jcmd <pid> GC.class_stats (UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions)
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, sla, acorn
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Summary: Removed depreciated kernel VM source code from hotspot VM
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: BinaryTreeDictionary is typedef'ed as AFLBinaryTreeDictionary in vmStructs and in SA we still use old name for that. FreeList now is a template based class which is not reflect in SA type library. When SA does calculation of heap for CMS, the former will cause failure to retrieve BinaryTreeDictionary  sine the rename. The later will fail wherever it is used in SA.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla, coleenp
Contributed-by: yunda.mly@taobao.com

Summary: When constant pool is copied in merge_constant_pools the invokedynamic operands must be copied before.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Reordered Klass, InstanceKlass and Method to save 8 bytes each
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jiangli
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Summary: treat anonymous classes as privileged code to restore the special handling for @Compiled during class file parsing
Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, kvn, dholmes

Summary: Limit vectors size to 16 bytes on BSD until the problem is fixed
Reviewed-by: twisti