Summary: Use BIS instruction for allocation prefetch on Sparc
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Use FieldsAllocationStyle=2 to allocate non static oop fields in super and sub classes together
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Don't align loops in stubs for Niagara sparc since NOPs are expensive.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: For large arrays we should use 64 bytes chunks copy.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: ScavengeRootsInCode can lead to unfixed code-embedded oops.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Fix typo.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Update the HS18 build number to 02
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: ed@camswl.com

Summary: The changes of 6934494 have broken the Zero build.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: When Zero is running with Shark enabled threads can be left with their _do_not_unlock_if_synchronized flag incorrectly set.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Fix build.bat so invoking command shell doesn't exit on error. Fix dirname assumptions. Document some MKS environment dependencies.
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Remove assert to decouple JDK and HotSpot additions of known types.
Reviewed-by: mchung

Summary: Update the Major and build numbers for HS18 fork
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Add close to returns (fix for 6929067 also contributed by aph)
Reviewed-by: aph, dcubed, andrew, acorn
Contributed-by: aph@redhat.com, andreas.kohn@fredhopper.com

Summary: process one item at a time from the objarray stack/queue
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, tonyp

Summary: Newly-created threads always had the active field of their SATB queue initialized to false, even if they were created during marking. As a result, updates from threads created during a marking cycle were never enqueued and never processed. The fix includes remaining a method from active() to is_active() for readability and naming consistency.
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc

Summary: Some code cleanups found during the JSR 292 SPARC port.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: If CM task was aborted while scanning the last object of the specified region and the size of that object is equal to bitmap's granularity then the next offset would be equal or over the region limit which is exactly what the assertion states.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Added missing counter decrement when substring search restarted.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Adding probes related to thread scheduling and class initialization
Reviewed-by: kamg, never

Summary: The logic for x86 C1 to save the SP over MH calls is pretty straight forward but SPARC handles that differently.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose