Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: phh, jmasa

Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NVolker Simonis <volker.simonis@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add support for packaging HotSpot JVM builds in universal binaries
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kamg, dcubed, phh
Contributed-by: james.melvin@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, kevinw, brutisso, twisti, jmasa

Summary: too optimistic inlining decision confuses local value numbering.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Use unknown_obj instead of empty_map for NULL or Constant Pool object constants in bytecode Escape Analyzer.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never

Summary: 7u4 new experimental flag -XX:PredictedClassLoadedCount=#
Reviewed-by: dholmes, phh, dcubed

Summary: Fix pure c2 builds
Reviewed-by: kvn, brutisso, never

Summary: Add define of INCLUDE_TRACE
Reviewed-by: sla, kamg

Summary: Changed "return false" to "return NULL"
Reviewed-by: dholmes, rottenha
Contributed-by: dbhole@redhat.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, dholmes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Temporarily disabled multi-threaded reference discovery when entering a single-threaded remark phase.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp, jmasa, jcoomes

Summary: Changed to the correct annotation arrays
Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes, sla

Summary: Add CriticalPriority == MaxPriority+1 and enable scheduling class as well as thread priority to change on Solaris.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

Summary: Some minor profile based optimizations. Reduce the number of branches and branch mispredicts by removing some virtual calls, through closure specalization, and refactoring some conditional statements.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp

Summary: Make sure that CompilationPolicy::event() doesn't throw exceptions
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: improvements of TraceMethodHandles for JSR292
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: handle not loaded array klass in Parse::do_checkcast().
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: disable UseAdaptiveSizePolicy with the CMS and ParNew
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso