Summary: memory ordering fixes in GC and other runtime code showing on PPC64.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Extend ELF-decoder to support PPC64 function descriptor tables
Reviewed-by: kvn, zgu

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

Summary: Use new nodes for loadFence/storeFence intrinsics in C2.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes

Summary: Catch missing-because-illegal case for itable entries and use an exception-throwing method instead of null.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jrose, coleenp

Summary: Use @ignore to exclude failing tests
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi, mseledtsov
Contributed-by: george.triantafillou@oracle.com

Summary: Add verification to check that invokespecial of an InterfaceMethodref names a method in a direct superinterface of the current class or interface in accordance with JSR 335, JVMS 4.9.2 Structural Constraints.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel, coleenp
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, egahlin

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Also introduces the compiler oracle 'option' feature for PrintAssembly.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: smaller shared changes required to build the C2 compiler on PPC64.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fixed Implicit NULL check optimization for AIX, where the page at address '0' is only write-protected.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Exclude private methods when checking for final method override.
Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp, dholmes, mseledtsov

Summary: extends MachCall nodes so that they can issue constants to the constant table
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: rbp not restored when stack overflow is thrown from deopt/uncommon trap blobs
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: fix CPP-interpreter after CheckUnhandledOops was re-enabled in the fastdebug build
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, lfoltan

Reviewed-by: dcubed, sla

Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn, mgronlun

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fix reversing rewriting for invokespecial
Reviewed-by: jrose, hseigel

Summary: Add additional, more verbose syntax checks in adlc. Fix printing constant's problem in format().
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add a field to C2 LoadNode and StoreNode classes which indicates whether the load/store should do an acquire/release on platforms which support it.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: added ability in C2 to expand mach nodes to several mach nodes after register allocation
Reviewed-by: kvn