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: 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

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

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

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