Summary: Treat the empty string as the default value tag
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8014765: VM exits if MaxTenuringThreshold is set below the default InitialTenuringThreshold, and InitialTenuringThreshold is not set
Summary: The VM exits when the condition in the subject line applies. The fix sets InitialTenuringThreshold to MaxTenuringThreshold if it is larger than MaxTenuringThreshold and InitialTenuringThreshold has not been set (is default).
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, brutisso, johnc

Summary: Fix instance_size miscalculation.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

8010738: G1: Output for full GCs with +PrintGCDetails should contain perm gen size/meta data change info
Summary: Include metaspace information (used, allocated, reserved) in the PrintGCDetails output for full GCs.
Reviewed-by: poonam, jmasa, brutisso

Summary: Corrected the class name
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi, hseigel
Contributed-by: NMikhailo Seledtsov <mikhailo.seledtsov@oracle.com>

Summary: Re-wrote test in Java in addition to fixing the Copyright notice. Also reviewed by leonid.mesnik@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi
Contributed-by: NMikhailo Seledtsov <mikhailo.seledtsov@oracle.com>

Summary: Improve the output of G1PrintRegionLivenessInfo by adding a per-region remembered set size information column
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, johnc

Reviewed-by: kvn

8014489: tests/gc/arguments/Test(Serial|CMS|Parallel|G1)HeapSizeFlags jtreg tests invoke wrong class
Summary: Some jtreg tests reference unknown classes in the @run and @build lines. This change fixes them.
Reviewed-by: stefank, ehelin

Summary: Added the -XX:SharedArchiveFile option.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung, acorn, dcubed, zgu

Summary: Need to walk array class vtables replacing old methods too if j.l.o redefined
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, ctornqvi

Summary: The patch for 8006088 misses regression tests after a merge error, this CR provides them.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, tamao, jmasa

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, johnc, tschatzl

8013032: CMS: assert(used() == used_after_gc && used_after_gc <= capacity()) failed: used: 0 used_after_gc: 292080 capacity: 1431699456
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, mgerdin, johnc

Summary: Resurrected autobox elimination code and enabled part of it by default.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: Fixed tests to use new way of utilizing the WB API, fixed issue with where custom classloader got the classes from
Reviewed-by: collins, mgerdin, zgu

Summary: Refactored shrink_by() to only use region counts and not byte sizes
Reviewed-by: johnc, tschatzl

Summary: Make processing of minimum, initial and maximum heap size more intiutive by removing previous limitations on allowed values, and make error reporting consistent. Further, fix errors in ergonomic heap sizing.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm, tamao

8013120: NMT: Kitchensink crashes with assert(next_region == NULL || !next_region->is_committed_region()) failed: Sanity check
Summary: Fixed NMT to deal with releasing virtual memory region when there are still committed regions within it
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp

Summary: Make sure max alignemnt is at least as large as min alignment
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa, tschatzl

Summary: Do not treat static methods as miranda methods.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: Reserved memory had PROT_READ+PROT_WRITE access on Linux/bsd, now changed to PROT_NONE.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ctornqvi

8011898: gc/TestVerifyBeforeGCDuringStartup.java: java.lang.RuntimeException: '[Verifying' missing from stdout/stderr: [Error: Could not find or load main class]
Summary: System.getProperty("test.java.opts") can return NULL, which gets converted to to the empty string, and the child java command then interprets that as the name of the main class.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Summary: test shouldn't be run with a modified CompileThreshold
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: instruct xaddL_no_res shouldn't allow 64 bit constants.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: iris, mduigou, jjg

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Summary: Repair wrong code generation, added new matching rule
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Refactor the CLD dependency list into a separate class. Use an ObjectLocker to synchronize additions to the CLD dependency list.
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

Summary: loop invariant code motion may move load before store to the same field
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

8009808: TEST-BUG : test case is using bash style tests. Default shell for jtreg is bourne. thus failure
Summary: Rewrite test to use Java only instead of shell script
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso
Contributed-by: leonid.mesnik@oracle.com

Summary: add longer timeout for jtreg, add internal timeout thread to prevent spurious timeouts
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: Ndrchase <david.r.chase@oracle.com>

Summary: test from 8009761 shouldn't be run with -Xcomp
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add convenience method in StringTable, add WhiteBox method and simple sanity test
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, zgu
Contributed-by: leonid.mesnik@oracle.com

Summary: Tests added for Reserve/Commit/Uncommit/Unreserve operations
Reviewed-by: zgu, mgerdin