8016729: ObjectAlignmentInBytes=16 now forces the use of heap based compressed oops
8005933: The -Xshare:auto option is ignored for -server
Summary: Move klass metaspace above the heap and support CDS with compressed klass ptrs.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, mgerdin, tschatzl, stefank

Summary: remove crufty '_g' support from HS tests
Reviewed-by: dcubed, sla

Summary: ActiveMethodOopsCache was used to keep track of old versions of some methods that are cached in Universe but is buggy with permgen removal and not needed anymore
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, mseledtsov

Summary: Fixed project generation code, and added warning to upgrade to VS 2008 SP1.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, ccheung

Summary: Add support for recognizing Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 and minor cleanup
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: If java test return none zero, the value will be override by 'if' statement, the exit value will always '0' and pass. Fix by recording the result in a variable.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, iklam
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Added extra help message in make/solaris/makefiles/dtrace.make
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

Summary: ProjectCreator tool is modified to support two new options: '-relativeAltSrcInclude' and '-altRelativeInclude' which prevents IDE linker errors. Also fixed some cmd line build linker warnings. Misc cleanups.
Reviewed-by: rdurbin, coleenp

Summary: stat64 have to be replaced with stat
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kmo
Contributed-by: rednaxelafx@gmail.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: Restore the appendix argument after PopFrame() call
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, twisti

Summary: Method sun.jvm.hotspot.runtime.OSThread.initialize throws a sun.jvm.hotspot.types.WrongTypeException
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mgerdin

8022029: GetUnsafeObjectG1PreBarrier fails on 32-bit with: Unrecognized VM option 'ObjectAlignmentInBytes=32'
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: minqi, poonam

Summary: Added a x86 64-bit Solaris shared library and rewrote test in Java
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ctornqvi

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

Summary: test/runtime/7196045 times out
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mseledtsov

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, fparain, dcubed

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Removed part of the test that required the VM to start up with -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=2048m
Reviewed-by: kvn, rbackman

Summary: runtime/8000968/Test8000968.sh has incorrect check for proper config
Reviewed-by: coleenp, mseledtsov, sspitsyn, hseigel