Summary: Adds code to HotSpot to properly update MethodParameter attributes' constant pool indexes when redefineClasses is called
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman

Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman

Summary: Fixed makefile logic to correctly special case JRE_RELEASE_VERSION and vm_version.o
Reviewed-by: dholmes, erikj

Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, sspitsyn, rbackman

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: mgronlun, sla, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

Summary: Reverse hs_err file permission back to 0666, as early push was premature
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, dcubed, acorn

Summary: make the test less prone to timeout by reducing the amount of iteration and allowing main to be compiled
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: Add support for expensive nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: moved MacroAssembler into separate file
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, dlong

Summary: allocate method annotations and attach to ConstMethod if present
Reviewed-by: dcubed, jiangli, sspitsyn, iklam

Summary: moved MacroAssembler into separate file
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, dlong

Summary: make sure all diagnostic and experimental flag kinds are checked in Flag::is_unlocked()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add array access range check
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Set ReservedCodeCacheSize to (default value)*5 when TieredCompilation is on.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Added missing UseSSE42 check. Also added missing avx2 assert for vpermq instruction.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: Removed is_kernel_jvm from jvm_version_info as Kernel VM has been deprecated
Reviewed-by: mchung, coleenp

Summary: Enforce more restricted hs_file permission
Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

8006423: SA: NullPointerException in sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.bsd.BsdThread.getContext(BsdThread.java:67)
Summary: Do not rely on mach thread port names to identify threads from SA
Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi, rbackman

Summary: Four tests written for 8006298
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp