Summary: libjvm_g_db.so and libjvm_g_dtrace.so links in .diz file still had 64 directory
Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes, sspitsyn

Summary: Missing .PHONY targets in makefile
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dsamersoff

Summary: check for and skip diamond shaped NULL check code for the result of toString()
Reviewed-by: twisti, roland

Summary: Cannot delete _buckets and HashtableEntries in shared space (CDS)
Reviewed-by: acorn, kvn, dlong, dcubed, kamg

Summary: Remove the per-thread expansion tables (PosParPRT) and associated expansion and compaction from the fine grain RSet entries. This code has been unused for a while.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso
Contributed-by: NThomas Schatzl <thomas.schatzl@jku.at>

Summary: build powerpc with -fPIC
Reviewed-by: mikael, vladidan, roland
Contributed-by: dean.long@oracle.com

Summary: Missing cast caused integer overflow
Reviewed-by: rbackman, dholmes

Summary: Bug fix of 7126277 changed hashing algorithm and also changed key as final field, this led SA unable to set correct value for key. Solution by reading key/value and insert them into the new table.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: String offset and count fields as fix of 6924259 were removed, and become optional. SA still use offset and count fields to read String contents and failed. Fix if they exist, use them other then use value field only to read, this keeps consistent with the changes in 6924259.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: In fieldDescriptor::generic_signature() returns NULL immediately if the field has no generic signature.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, jcoomes

Summary: When looking for the same value in an other register check that all parts of that register has the same value.
Reviewed-by: johnc, twisti

Summary: StackOverflowError may get lost on OSX.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

7175255: symlinks are wrong, which caused jdk8-promote-2 to fail (client/64/64 directories in debuginfo zips)
Summary: Fix bad paths in client/64 and server/64 debug info and symlink creation
Reviewed-by: ohair, dholmes

Summary: Simple change to enable proper builds of arm target
Reviewed-by: ohair, dholmes

Summary: disable vectorization of a memory access with more elements per vector than one which is used for alignment on sparc
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Summary: Arrays.copyOfRange(original, from, to) with from > original.length tries to do a copy with a negative length.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: forgot to hg add it
Reviewed-by: pbk, kamg, dlong, kvn, fparain

Summary: Increase vector size up to 256-bits for YMM AVX registers on x86.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, roland

Summary: While looking for the sender frame check that the frame pointer should not be less than the stack pointer.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

Summary: Use an alternate version of hashing algorithm for symbol string tables and after a certain bucket size to improve performance
Reviewed-by: pbk, kamg, dlong, kvn, fparain