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

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa, kvn, tamao

Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes

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

Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed, dsimms

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

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

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

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: Dl_info struct should only be used if dladdr() has returned non-zero (no errors) and always check the dladdr() return value; Dl_info.dli_sname and Dl_info.dli_saddr fields should only be used if non-NULL; update/improve runtime/6888954/vmerrors.sh test
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, zgu, hseigel, coleenp

Summary: Remove -Xaprof and Klass::_alloc_count & ArrayKlass::_alloc_size.
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

8017571: JSR292: JVM crashing on assert "cast to instanceKlass" while producing MethodHandle for array methods with MethodHandle.findVirtual
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add intrinsics using new instruction to interpreter, C1, C2, for suitable x86; add test
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8015391: NPG: With -XX:+UseCompressedKlassPointers OOME due to exhausted metadata space could occur when metaspace is almost empty
Summary: Allocate medium chunks for class metaspace when class loader has lots of classes
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jmasa

8014972: Crash with specific values for -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=500K -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=500k
Summary: Introduce a minimum code cache size that guarantees that the VM can startup.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: The auto corrector for mistyped vm options fuzzy-matches existing flags based on string similarity (Dice's coefficient).
Reviewed-by: kvn, dsamersoff, hseigel, johnc

Summary: Set HeapBaseMinAddress as default rather than ergo
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, kvn

Summary: Minimize redundant verifications of Klasses.
Reviewed-by: hseigel, jmasa

Summary: Added Atomic::inc(short*) to support this change.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed, dholmes, minqi

Summary: Add code pc location for compiled code
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp
Contributed-by: doug.simon@oracle.com

Summary: Detect this crash in the signal handler and give a fatal error message instead of making us chase down bugs that don't reproduce
Reviewed-by: kvn, mgerdin, dholmes

Summary: Implement Safefetch as stub routines. This reduces compiler and os dependencies.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes

Summary: Reduce default size of Thread::_metadata_handles from 300 to 30
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Fixed NMT race condition for realloc, uncommit and release
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung

Summary: Increase HeapBaseMinAddress for G1 from 256m to 1g on Solaris x86
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, kvn

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, mgronlun

7162400: Intermittent java.io.IOException: Bad file number during HotSpotVirtualMachine.executeCommand
Summary: Intermittent java.io.IOException: Bad file number during HotSpotVirtualMachine.executeCommand
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, sspitsyn, mgerdin, ctornqvi, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: jeremymanson@google.com, calvin.cheung@oracle.com

8013057: assert(_needs_gc || SafepointSynchronize::is_at_safepoint()) failed: only read at safepoint
Summary: Detect mmap() commit failures in Linux and Solaris os::commit_memory() impls and call vm_exit_out_of_memory(). Add os::commit_memory_or_exit(). Also tidy up some NMT accounting and some mmap() return value checking.
Reviewed-by: zgu, stefank, dholmes, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>

Summary: Removed most of the SPARC V8 instructions
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Remove dead code.
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp

Summary: Check bytecode versions along with RelaxAccessControlCheck version
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: Using CHECK_NULL when calling multi_allocate() from the corresponding reflection code; added test for this condition
Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi
Contributed-by: NMikhailo Seledtsov <mikhailo.seledtsov@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: stefank, rbackman
Contributed-by: NJoel Borggren-Franck <joel.franck@oracle.com>