Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: add guarantee() to nmethod constructor and checks to ensure CodeCache has space before allocation
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Ensure class pointer is non-null before dereferencing it to check if it is loaded.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: added guarantee() to print_entry_on()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: added guarantee() to pd_address_in_code()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: when possible optimize out array bound checks, inserting predicates when needed.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: Nthomaswue <thomas.wuerthinger@oracle.com>

Summary: Enforce MaxMetaspaceSize for both metaspace parts, check MaxMetaspaceSize against "reserved", not "capacity"
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: add guarantee() to insert_pre_post_loops()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to disqualify_method()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to get_instance_klass_for_declared_method_holder()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to set_to_interpreted()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() checks
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() checks to merge_state_into_bb()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: added missing parenthesis
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: If the marking stack overflows while the marking tasks are draining the SATB buffers, remark will exit with some SATB buffers left unprocessed. Relax the guarantee to allow for overflow.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: add NULL checks for compiler name
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to DoScheduling()
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, stefank, rbackman, twisti
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

Summary: Skip reference processing if the global marking stack overflows during remark. Refactor and rename set_phase(); move code that sets the concurrency level into its own routine. Do not call set_phase() from within parallel reference processing; use the concurrency level routine instead. The marking state should only set reset by CMTask[0] during the concurrent phase of the marking cycle; if an overflow occurs at any stage during the remark, the marking state will be reset after reference processing.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Summary: In CMTask::do_marking_step(), Skip offering termination and entering the first and second synchronization barriers if called from a serial context, i.e. the VM thread.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: support for strings that have same life-time as code that uses them.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add null check to signal handler
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: add guarantee() to oop_result inlines
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add guarantee() to add_generation_memory_pool()
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add guarantee() to as_instance_type()
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Check for exception during SystemDictionary::resolve_instance_class_or_null() and clean up.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, hseigel, minqi
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dlong, alanb, mduigou

8009614: nsk/split_verifier/stress/ifelse/ifelse002_30 fails with 'assert((size & (granularity - 1)) == 0) failed: size not aligned to os::vm_allocation_granularity()
Summary: Align up vm allocation size to os defined granularity
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: add cases for _MSC_VER == 1600 and 1700
Reviewed-by: zgu

Summary: add null pointer check in signal handler
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use the correct collector to retrieve accumulated gen1 trace time
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa

8005602: NPG: classunloading does not happen while CMS GC with -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled is used
Summary: Call purge() on CLDG after sweep(), reorder purge() call in GenCollectedHeap
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank

Summary: Store metadata on ClassFileParser instance to be cleaned up by destructor.  This enabled some refactoring of the enormous parseClassFile function.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, acorn

Summary: -Xshare:dump was creating a Symbol in C_heap.  There's an assert there that jdk jprt wasn't hitting because it was only done in product
Reviewed-by: dholmes, hseigel, iklam

Summary: Some zeroing was missed for bug 8003553, causing empty stack traces and Xcom crashes, add back zeroing to metablock
Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman

Reviewed-by: johnc

Summary: Print the concurrent phase start markers for CMS when PrintGCDetails is enabled, not only if both PrintGCDetails and PrintGCTimeStamps are.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jmasa

Summary: Take the initial heap size into account when checking the heap size for compressed oops
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kvn, hseigel, ctornqvi

Summary: The minimal JVM is printing a warning message for default settings when it should quitely ignore them.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Disable @Contended support for static fields
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>