Summary: Make both compilers emit near and far calls when necessary.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, phh

Summary: Change get_temp_directory() back to /tmp and %TEMP% like it always was and where the tools expect it to be.
Reviewed-by: phh, dcubed, kamg, alanb

Reviewed-by: mchung, acorn

Summary: Move _lower_dimension field initialization before _higher_dimension and add storestore barrier.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, iveresov, never

Summary: Replaced incr_allocated_bytes() formals var_size_in_bytes and con_size_in_bytes with a single RegisterOrConstant formal.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jcoomes

Summary: Mark field volatile, use membars, and change access order to close race
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes

Summary: Reuse set_method_data_for_bcp() to setup mdp after MDO creation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Make JvmtiGCMark safe to run non-safepoint and instrument CMS
Reviewed-by: ysr, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Modify membars to match regular volatile variable handling
Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn, never

Summary: Update the HS20 build number to 06
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

6876037: CTW fails jdk7/hotspot/src/share/vm/opto/type.cpp:2055. assert(bits,"Use TypePtr for NULL")
Summary: Add missing 0 value check in TypeRawPtr::add_offset().
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Use Atomic::load() and Atomic::store() to access a volatile long.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, jrose, dholmes, never

Summary: Codebuffer can overflow on test with large number of calls
Reviewed-by: dholmes, collins

Summary: Track allocated bytes in Thread's, update on TLAB retirement and direct allocation in Eden and tenured, add JNI methods for ThreadMXBean.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, dholmes, ysr

Reviewed-by: phh, acorn, kamg

Summary: Sign-extend the length argument during array allocation
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

6583275: Hotspot crash in vm_perform_shutdown_actions due to uninitialized TLS during out of memory handling
Summary: Call get_thread_slow() in vm_perform_shutdown actions and add null check.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, jcoomes

7010068: Update all 2010 Oracle-changed OpenJDK files to have the proper copyright dates - first pass
Summary: Update the copyright to be 2010 on all changed files in OpenJDK
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: enhance the error reporting mechanism to help user to fix the problem rather than making it look like a VM error.
Reviewed-by: kvn, kamg

Summary: Fix frame size computation
Reviewed-by: phh, kvn

Summary: reset NoHandleMark before going into VM.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: remove clear_scratch_buffer_blob and let init_scratch_buffer_blob free and allocate a new blob if required.
Reviewed-by: twisti

7009359: HS with -XX:+AggressiveOpts optimize new StringBuffer(null) so it does not throw NPE as expected
Summary: Bailout StringConcat optimization if null is passed to StringBuffer constructor.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: Fix CAS of longs on SPARC 32bit and cmove on SPARC 64bit.
Reviewed-by: kvn