Summary: Make sure CDS is off by default when running server compiler.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar, dholmes, ksrini
Contributed-by: NMike Duigou <mike.duigou@oracle.com>

Summary: Add -XX:+VerifyStringTableAtExit option and code to verify StringTable invariants.
Reviewed-by: rdurbin, sspitsyn, coleenp

Summary: Check that the _java_thread parameter is valid when it is possible that the JavaThread has exited after the initial checks were made in generated/jvmtifiles/jvmtiEnter.cpp: jvmti_GetCurrentContendedMonitor()
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dsamersoff

Summary: Re-wrote in Java, this also eliminated temporary result file; set upper limit on malloc'd memory
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, ccheung

Summary: Rewrote test in Java; updated the test condition to reflect latest changes in the source
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ctornqvi

Summary: made changes to easily identify current log file in rotation. Parameterize the input with %t for time replacement in file name.
Reviewed-by: ccheung, tschatzl, tamao, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kamg, minqi

Summary: Cleanup and document how various Linux release info files are used by print_distro_info().
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dsamersoff, coleenp, iklam, omajid
Contributed-by: gerald.thornbrugh@oracle.com

6900441: PlatformEvent.park(millis) on Linux could still be affected by changes to the time-of-day clock
Summary: Associate CLOCK_MONOTONIC with the pthread_cond_t objects used for relative timed waits
Reviewed-by: dcubed, shade

8024346: ~CautiouslyPreserveExceptionMark - assert(!_thread->has_pending_exception()) failed: unexpected exception generated
Summary: Pending exceptions must be handled properly after a call to the JVMTI merge_cp_and_rewrite
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

8024345: 'assert(_value != NULL) failed: resolving NULL _value' from VM_RedefineClasses::set_new_constant_pool
Summary: The OOME's in the JVMTI merge_cp_and_rewrite and set_new_constant_pool must be handled correctly
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

8017230: Internal Error (jvmtiRedefineClasses.cpp:1662): guarantee(false) failed: insert_space_at() failed
Summary: Handle pending exceptions instead of firing a guarantee()
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: allwin, acorn, dcubed, dholmes, egahlin

Summary: Enforce of preprocessing of all assembly sources by assembler-with-cpp
Reviewed-by: dholmes, erikj

Summary: on some macines gcc not able to link cxx program
Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Lowered the MinJumpTableSize for each platform
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: rbackman, twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com, vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Summary: Removed unused macro
Reviewed-by: kvn, adlertz

8023167: JVM allows duplicate Runtime[In]VisibleTypeAnnotations attributes in ClassFile/field_info/method_info structures
Summary: Add checks for duplicates and issue errors when detected.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu

Reviewed-by: sla

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Use WinDbg API StackWalk64()
Reviewed-by: zgu, dholmes

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, kvn, twisti