Summary: add intrinsics using new instruction to interpreter, C1, C2, for suitable x86; add test
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8014972: Crash with specific values for -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=500K -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=500k
Summary: Introduce a minimum code cache size that guarantees that the VM can startup.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Undo recent changes (and add more comments) in Ideal_allocation().
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: cast the offending expressions to (void)
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: added regression test
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp
Contributed-by: NFilipp Zhinkin <filipp.zhinkin@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: tbell, darcy

Reviewed-by: jmasa, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso

Reviewed-by: johnc, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso

Summary: Minimize redundant verifications of Klasses.
Reviewed-by: hseigel, jmasa

Summary: Replace _indy by _jsr292 and also fix VERIFY_OOP macros.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Regression test for 8005956
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Replaces unused decodeN at MemBarAcquire with its corresponding loadN if loadN is used at more than one place.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: remove unused breakpoint relocation type
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Added Atomic::inc(short*) to support this change.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed, dholmes, minqi

Summary: Add code pc location for compiled code
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp
Contributed-by: doug.simon@oracle.com

Summary: Detect this crash in the signal handler and give a fatal error message instead of making us chase down bugs that don't reproduce
Reviewed-by: kvn, mgerdin, dholmes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes

Summary: Reduce default size of Thread::_metadata_handles from 300 to 30
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Add support for a MacOS X compatible form of the libjvm mapfile.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, rdurbin, coleenp