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

Summary: Removed part of the test that required the VM to start up with -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=2048m
Reviewed-by: kvn, rbackman

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: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, dlong

Summary: Add code to copy method parameters data in clone_with_new_data
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Added -DLINUX to the gcc command and improved the .sh script
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, minqi

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: jcoomes

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