Summary: Implement methods printing posix signal information and call them in unix os files.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, twisti
Contributed-by: thomas.stuefe@sap.com

Summary: Forward port of 7u change to add additional fence() on RMO platforms, with a load_acquire on all platforms
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn

Summary: made event messages better readable
Reviewed-by: kvn, rbackman

Summary: With this change the HotSpot core build works on Linux/PPC64. The VM succesfully executes simple test programs.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, fparain, dcubed

Summary: Assert in ThreadTimesClosure::do_thread() due to use of naked oop instead of handle
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa, kvn, tamao

Summary: C1's GetUnsafeObject G1 pre-barrier uses the wrong type to read the klass pointer.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes

Summary: switch on TieredCompilation by default
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: acorn, jmasa, coleenp, dcubed, mgerdin

Summary: Make hsdis work on Linux/PPC64 and AIX/PPC64
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: rasbold, tschatzl, jmasa
Contributed-by: yamauchi@google.com

6990419: CMS Remaining work for 6572569: consistently skewed work distribution in (long) re-mark pauses
Reviewed-by: rasbold, tschatzl, jmasa
Contributed-by: yamauchi@google.com

Summary: Add code to copy method parameters data in clone_with_new_data
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: find_method could return NULL so need explicitly check if there is error after parse_method, exit on error to avoid crash.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: egahlin, rbackman, dcubed, brutisso, acorn

Summary: volatile jdouble load/store is not atomic, fix by using of existing volatile jlong operations which are atomic for jdouble.
Reviewed-by: kvn, vladidan, jrose
Contributed-by: david.holmes@oracle.com

Summary: this fix also removes the -XX:+UseStringCache option
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, iklam

Reviewed-by: dcubed, fparain, dholmes
Contributed-by: NDavid Simms <david.simms@oracle.com>

Summary: Use JvmtiCachedClassFileData.
Reviewed-by: iklam, sspitsyn, dcubed

Summary: Added (sig < MAXSIGNUM) check in jsig.c
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed, dsimms

Summary: ARM compilers do not emit FramePointer on each native frame by default
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu

Summary: remove StubRoutines::x86::_mxcsr_std and use StubRoutines::_mxcsr_std
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: generate one "fat" membar instead of set of barriers for volitile store
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: fix bytecode analyzer
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Take _last_young_gc into account when deciding on starting a concurrent mark. Also reviewed-by: per.liden@oracle.com.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, johnc

Summary: Remove obsolete code that relates to ISM which was used only on Solaris 8.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, mgerdin, stefank

Summary: Requires: 8013789: Compiler bridges, 8015402: metafactory
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, coleenp, bharadwaj

Summary: Some of qsort implementation on Linux x86 compares element to itself, which is  mistakenly treated as duplicate pointer
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn

Summary: Make the destructor virtual (note more non-compiler hotspot errors occur downstream)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Limit the size of the code cache to at most 2G when arguments are checked; added regression test
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: JVM_SetProtectionDomain has been deprecated since 1.5 and is being removed
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

8020059: The flag introduced by 8014972 is not defined if Hotspot is built  without a compiler (zero, ppc64 core build).
Summary: define CodeCacheMinimumUseSpace flag for cppInterpeter build.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Changed initial size to Chunk::tiny_size (216 bytes)
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, sspitsyn

Summary: On AIX 7.1 systemcfg.h defines IA64 unconditionally, so test for !AIX where IA64 is used.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn