8043029: Change 8037816 breaks HS build with older GCC versions which don't support diagnostic pragmas
8043164: Format warning in traceStream.hpp
Summary: Backport of main fix + two corrections, enables clang compilation, turns on format attributes, corrects/mutes warnings
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, iveresov, twisti

Summary: Check for overflow cases in range checks and collapse it if we can.
Reviewed-by: jrose, iveresov

Summary: Only prune metaspace virtual spaces at safepoint so walking them is safe outside a safepoint.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, mgronlun, hseigel, stefank

Summary: Allow a BootstrapMethods attribute that contains an empty bootstrap_methods table where num_bootstrap_methods is equal to zero.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

Reviewed-by: lfoltan, zgu

Summary: Fixes a bug introduced by 8029302
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, ehelin

8040085: dtrace/jsdt tests crash on solaris. found an unadvertised bad scavengable oop in the code cache
Summary: Add CodeCache::add_scavenge_root_nmethod(this) to the dtrace-constructor of nmethod
Reviewed-by: roland, iveresov

8039298: assert(base == NULL || t_adr->isa_rawptr() || !phase->type(base)->higher_equal(TypePtr::NULL_PTR))
Summary: Convert the assert into the runtime check to skip IGVN optimizations for problematic memory nodes. Eliminate dead nodes more aggressively.
Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

Summary: temporary set UseAVX=1 and UseSSE=2 in generate_get_cpu_info()
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Allow replay compilation with replay file parsing error.
Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

Summary: Fix the arbitrary alignment issue in SPARC AES crypto stub routines.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@oracle.com

Summary: Added special case for x^y where y == 2
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: method handle call to c1 intrinsic tries to profile popped argument
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, shade, dholmes, acorn

Summary: profiling code in interpreter broken when argument profiling is off.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

8029436: CICompilerCount is not updated when the number of compiler threads is adjusted to the number of CPUs
Summary: CICompilerCount is updated in AdvancedThresholdPolicy::initialize, SimpleThresholdPolicy::initialize and NonTieredCompPolicy::initialize. A warning is printed if the usersets both, CICompilerCount and CICompilerCountPerCPU.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NTobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn

Summary: Switch UseRTMXendForLockBusy flag ON by default and change code to retry RTM locking on lock busy condition by default.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: Remove the misleading malloc macro and cleanup the code
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, kvn
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8036667: "assert(adr->is_AddP() && adr->in(AddPNode::Offset)->is_Con()) failed: offset is a constant" with FoldStableValues on
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: morris, kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, pliden

Summary: verify YMM registers after signal processing and set limit on vector's size.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, pliden

Summary: enable type speculation
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: check fr.sender_sp() in java thread instead of os::is_first_C_frame(&fr).
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp

8035841: assert(dp_src->tag() == dp_dst->tag()) failed: should be same tags 1 != 0 at ciMethodData.cpp:90
Summary: concurrent update of traps with construction of ciMethodData
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: favor profile data coming from outer most method
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Add support for BMI1 instructions
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: added missing check for loop padding case.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: biased locking's revoke_bias locks monitor in compiled frame with eliminated lock
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Replaced the verification call to a conditional one that only runs verification in debug builds.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl