Summary: Disable the test for SPARC and reduce the number of test iterations
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

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: Undo recent changes (and add more comments) in Ideal_allocation().
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: Added -XX:+UsePerfData to Test7196045.java.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, collins

Summary: cast the offending expressions to (void)
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: The fix is basically a backport of JDK-7019165 (pstack issue) to jhelper.d.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: tomas.hurka@oracle.com

Summary: added regression test
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp
Contributed-by: NFilipp Zhinkin <filipp.zhinkin@oracle.com>

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: The assert is invalid when a card is being refined by two different threads and its count crosses the hot threshold - the refinement count will be updated once by each thread triggering the assert. Remove the assert and update the count using a bounded expression.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tamao, brutisso

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso, jmasa, ysr
Contributed-by: per.liden@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

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

Reviewed-by: tbell, darcy

Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso, mgronlun

Reviewed-by: jmasa, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso

Reviewed-by: johnc, tschatzl