Reviewed-by: mchung, acorn

Summary: enhance the error reporting mechanism to help user to fix the problem rather than making it look like a VM error.
Reviewed-by: kvn, kamg

Summary: This change implements compressed oops for C1 for x64 and sparc. The changes are mostly on the codegen level, with a few exceptions when we do access things outside of the heap that are uncompressed from the IR. Compressed oops are now also enabled with tiered.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, phh

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

Summary: HeapBaseMinAddress should be used only for a default heap size calculation.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, jcoomes, dholmes

Summary: The plug that guards the use of compressed oops with invokedynamic needs to be removed
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Change property value to 1.<major_version> for major_version >= 7
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: Turn CDS off if compressed oops is on
Reviewed-by: ysr, kvn, jcoomes, phh

Summary: Deprecated HandlePromotionFailure, removing the ability to turn off that feature, did away with one epoch look-ahead when deciding if a scavenge is likely to fail, relying on current data.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, poonam

Summary: Temporarily fix to disable compressed oops with CDS
Reviewed-by: dholmes, twisti, kvn, never

Summary: min_stack_allowed is a compile time constant and Stack*Pages are settable
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn

Summary: Set upper limit 256 for ObjectAlignmentInBytes value.
Reviewed-by: never, iveresov

Summary: Vendor properties should be initialized after JDK version is determined.
Reviewed-by: kamg, ohair, dcubed, dholmes

Summary: Uses JDK_Version to determinate to set vm vendor to "Oracle Corporation" for JDK7 and later.
Reviewed-by: kamg, ohair, coleenp

Summary: take into account HeapBaseMinAddress and round down MaxPermSize
Reviewed-by: never

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: Implementation of a nonproduct boolean flag XX:PrintFlagsWithComments
Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

6885308: The incorrect -XX:StackRedPages, -XX:StackShadowPages, -XX:StackYellowPages could cause VM crash
Summary: Test minimal stack sizes given (also fixed linux compilation error)
Reviewed-by: never, phh, coleenp

Summary: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes

Summary: Remove the breadth-first copying order from ParallelScavenge and use depth-first by default.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, ysr, johnc

Summary: Adjust performance flags settings.
Reviewed-by: never, phh

Reviewed-by: phh

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

Summary: Added new product ObjectAlignmentInBytes flag to control object alignment.
Reviewed-by: twisti, ysr, iveresov

Reviewed-by: coleenp, never, gbenson

6949307: G1: raise a vm error, do not core dump, if target pause time and target interval are inconsistent
Summary: First, change the guarantee to raising a vm error. Second, set the interval dynamically, and based on the pause time target, if it is not set explicitly.
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc

Summary: Remove the G1GCPercent parameter, that specifies the desired GC overhead percentage in G1, and observe the GCTimeRatio parameter instead.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: Some code cleanups found during the JSR 292 SPARC port.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Use an explicit stack for object arrays and process them in chunks.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, apetrusenko

Summary: Rename marking stack sizing flags to be common between G1 and CMS
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: replace the combination of the G1SteadyStateUsed / G1SteadyStateUsedDelta parameteres to decide the marking initiation threshold and instead use InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent.
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc

Summary: Clear the total count when a receiver information is cleared.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Interval checking is now being performed on the values passed in for these two flags. The current acceptable range for RefDiscoveryPolicy is [0..1], and for TLABWasteTargetPercent it is [1..100].
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr

Summary: Add safepoint after CompileTheWorldSafepointInterval (100) compilations and do full sweep of CodeCache each time.
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: eric.caspole@amd.com

Summary: More informative disassembly in product mode.  Also, a more consistent CompileCommand syntax.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Change the flag -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal to product and add new product flag -XX:+PrintFlagsInitial.
Reviewed-by: phh, ysr
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com

6637203: Classunloading messages go to stdout rather than Xloggc file, causing hangs when stdout is closed
Summary: Decoupled TraceClassUnloading from verbose:gc, JVMTI_VERBOSE_GC and PrintGC[Details], making it settable in a manner identical to TraceClassLoading. Reverted an inadvertent change of TraceClassUnloading output in a previous changeset from gclog back to tty.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, jmasa, poonam