Summary: Add support for expensive nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: moved MacroAssembler into separate file
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, dlong

Summary: moved MacroAssembler into separate file
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, dlong

Summary: make sure all diagnostic and experimental flag kinds are checked in Flag::is_unlocked()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add array access range check
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Set ReservedCodeCacheSize to (default value)*5 when TieredCompilation is on.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Added missing UseSSE42 check. Also added missing avx2 assert for vpermq instruction.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: check ndimensions before accessing length[i] element
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: Reuse the parallel reference processing oop closures during serial reference processing.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov
Contributed-by: NIgor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: NJeremy Manson <jeremymanson@google.com>

Summary: Flush any deferred card mark before a Java thread exits.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Fix off-by-one error
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

8006907: Hotspot should reject classfiles with multiple MethodParameters attributes
Summary: Update to Hotspot's processing of MethodParameters attributes in classfiles
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose

8000968: NPG: UseCompressedKlassPointers asserts with ObjectAlignmentInBytes for > 32G CompressedOops
Summary: Pick a base that works for both CompressedOpps alignment and CompressedKlassPtrs alignment.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: wrong detection for dead call sites.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: missing test for loaded klass in c1
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: On Windows, set rw protection on the CDS file just before removing it.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, iklam

Summary: Introduce a protocol to discover manageble Java instances across a network subnet, JDP
Reviewed-by: sla, dfuchs

Summary: Removed unnecessary shell script in the test.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sla

Summary: Add tests for the Native Memory Tracking feature, includes regression tests for 8005936 and 8004802
Reviewed-by: zgu, coleenp