8010151: nsk/regression/b6653214 fails "assert(snapshot != NULL) failed: Worker should not be started"
Summary: Fixed a racing condition when shutting down NMT while worker thread is being started, also fixed a few mis-declared volatile pointers.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong

8011671: JCK tests on static interface methods fail under b84: Illegal type at constant pool entry 5
Summary: Restore incorrect removal of support for static interface method verification in Java 8
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: zgu, coleenp, hseigel, dholmes

Summary: Fix memory leaks when NMT fails to initialize snapshot and worker thread
Reviewed-by: dcubed, ccheung, rdurbin

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Fixed incremental build makefiles generated by buildtree.make. Consolidated unix build.sh.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Add the -Wunused-function flag and remove a number of unused functions.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

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

Reviewed-by: roland, kvn
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

8006103: [parfait] Possible null pointer dereference at hotspot/src/os/linux/vm/os_linux.cpp; os_windows.cpp; os_solaris.cpp; os_bsd.cpp
Reviewed-by: zgu, iklam

Summary: Fix shorten_branches() to accurately count an initial nop that may be inserted in a block that starts with a safepoint.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Execute vzeroupper instruction after JNI call and on exits in jit compiled code which use 256bit vectors.
Reviewed-by: roland

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

Summary: Use GC_locker::is_active_and_needs_gc() instead of GC_locker::is_active() for providing information about the reason of heap expansion.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla, ctornqvi

Summary: Pass utf_length parameter to UTF8::as_quoted_ascii()
Reviewed-by: dcubed, minqi

Summary: Improve EC_TRACE and RC_TRACE* to use the do-while(0) trick for statement-like macro
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed

Summary: a simple fix to add FileList_free(fl) before returning NULL.
Reviewed-by: zgu, coleenp, minqi

Summary: Add DumpSharedSpaces to IF condition to handle verify during -Xshare:dump.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu

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

8010934: assert failure in c1_LinearScan.cpp: "asumption: non-Constant instructions have only virtual operands"
Summary: incorrect code to skip some ArrayLength instructions in LIRGenerator
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, zgu
Contributed-by: peter.allwin@oracle.com