Summary: Updated create.bat and ProjectCreator
Reviewed-by: brutisso, stefank, ohair

Summary: Looking at API_VERSION_NUMBER define to see what version of dbghelp.h/imagehlp.h is included to determine what MINIDUMP_TYPEs are defined in the header file
Reviewed-by: acorn, brutisso, sla

Summary: Added Minidump support on Windows, enabled large page core dumps when coredump_filter is present and writing out path/rlimit for core dumps.
Reviewed-by: poonam, dsamersoff, sla, coleenp

Summary: Add support for distribution-specific error reporting
Reviewed-by: coleenp, phh, jcoomes, ohair

Reviewed-by: alanb, dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Print an additional message for OOM during stack trace printing
Reviewed-by: dholmes, phh, acorn, kamg, dcubed

Summary: Use os::malloc() to allocate buffer to read elf symbols and check for null
Reviewed-by: zgu, phh, dsamersoff, dholmes, dcubed

Summary: Write method signature handler under lock to prevent race with growable array resizing
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, dholmes

6766644: Redefinition of compiled method fails with assertion "Can not load classes with the Compiler thread"
Summary: Defer posting events from the compiler thread: use service thread
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, never, dcubed

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

Summary: Add option for gcc 4 and above, define JNIEXPORT and JNIIMPORT to visibility=default, add for jio_snprintf and others since -fvisibility=hidden overrides --version-script definitions.
Reviewed-by: kamg, never

Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

Summary: Update the Major and Build numbers for HS21
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: A race between the concurrent cleanup thread and the VM thread while it is processing the "expanded sparse table list" causes both threads to try to free the same sparse table entry and either causes one of the threads to fail or leaves the entry in an inconsistent state. The solution is purge all entries on the expanded list that correspond go regions that are being cleaned up.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: Use lea to compute field address in AtomicLongCSImpl::attemptUpdate() intrinsic on x86.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Implement support for ParallelRefProcEnabled in the reference processing that takes place at the end of G1 concurrent marking.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: Restore use of stillborn flag
Reviewed-by: acorn, alanb

Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

Summary: Two small fixes to deal with a guarantee failure (the marking thread should join the SuspendibleThreadSet before calling a method that does pause prediction work so that said method is never called during a pause) and an assert failure (an assert is too strong).
Reviewed-by: iveresov, johnc

Summary: Use long jumps to get from patching stubs to deopt blob
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Currently escape analysis is turned off when EnableInvokeDynamic is true.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn