Summary: Pass down a closure during root scanning to keep the class of the method alive.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jcoomes

Summary: Add a few more this->qualifications.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes
Contributed-by: duboscq@ssw.jku.at

Summary: The flags MinHeapDeltaBytes and UseNUMAInterleaving must be adjusted after the OS have adjusted the UseNUMA flag in the method os::init_2.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, brutisso
Contributed-by: erik.helin@oracle.com

Summary: Removed will_link and changed all calls to is_loaded().
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Qualify calls with this pointers to make gcc accept this code.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, andrew
Contributed-by: peter.levart@gmail.com

Summary: When java process crashed in compiler thread, repeat the compilation process will help finding root cause. This is done with using SA dump application class data and replay data from core dump, then use debug version of jvm to recompile the problematic java method.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Check that the values specified for -XX:StringTableSize are within a certain range.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Fixed NMT that miscounted arena memory when it is used as value or stack object.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp

Summary: Allows NMT to report that JNI thread failed to detach from JVM before exiting, which leaks the JavaThread object when check:jni option is on.
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, coleenp, ctornqvi

Summary: Reduce the amount of calls to ChunkManager verification code
Reviewed-by: jmasa, coleenp

Summary: dll_dir can contain multiple paths, need to parse them correctly when loading agents
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong
Contributed-by: bill.pittore@oracle.com

Summary: Added missed type check of initializing store in ConnectionGraph::find_init_values().
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti, vlivanov

Summary: Change types of above methods and field to InstanceKlass and remove unneeded casts from the source files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

8001591: NMT: assertion failed: assert(rec->addr() + rec->size() <= cur->base()) failed: Can not overlap in memSnapshot.cpp
Summary: NMT should allow overlapping committed regions as long as they belong to the same reserved region
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: The old function not defined properly, need a definition for export in dll. Also changes made to let new jvm work with old hsdis.
Reviewed-by: jrose, sspitsyn, kmo
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

8001658: No need to pass resolved_references as argument to ConstantPoolCacheEntry::set_method_handle_common
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NBharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, kmo

Summary: Use verifier_max_size instead of max_size to get code attribute max stack size.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, minqi
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Removes the two unused functions GenericTaskQueueSet::steal_1_random and GenericTaskQueueSet::steal_best_of_all
Reviewed-by: brutisso, stefank
Contributed-by: erik.x.helin@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: johnc, jcoomes, ysr

Summary: Fix the incorrect links in jvmti.html reported by the LinkCheck tool
Reviewed-by: jjh, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, twisti
Contributed-by: NRoman Kennke <rkennke@redhat.com>

Summary: Added missed check that Load node is in processed loop block.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: In case of time or iterations limit reached C2 stops EA and continue compilation without EA as it does in product VM already.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Disable -XX:+UseLargePages for MacOS X
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Remove support for the UseVectoredExceptions flag
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kamg
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: johnc, tamao

Summary: Use new x86 AES instructions for AESCrypt.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, roland
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

Summary: do vector right shift operation for small int types only after loads
Reviewed-by: jrose, dlong

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: perform transforms during IGVN phase when Load has a single user.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti

Summary: Enhanced virtual memory tracking to track committed regions as well as reserved regions, so NMT now can generate virtual memory map.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp

Summary: Allow which vector rules are supported to be decided at runtime. Also a small change to allow vector types in Type::_type_info[] to apply to more platforms.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: dean.long@oracle.com

Summary: Added code to write the value of the java.class.path property to the hs_err file.
Reviewed-by: kmo, dholmes, kvn
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: The -XX:+UseVMInterruptibleIO flag is deprecated for JDK8.  The flag will still enable Interruptible IO on Solaris, but users will get a warning.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, alanb
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Add simple check in debug version of VM.
Reviewed-by: twisti, johnc

8000623: tools/javac/Diagnostics/6769027/T6769027.java crashes in PSPromotionManager::copy_to_survivor_space
Summary: Fix type of method pointer load from vtable.
Reviewed-by: twisti, johnc, roland

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

Summary: Restore non-silent output of heap verification.
Reviewed-by: ysr, brutisso, jmasa