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

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

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

Summary: Re-enable survivors during the initial-mark pause. Afterwards, the concurrent marking threads have to scan them and mark everything reachable from them. The next GC will have to wait for the survivors to be scanned.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: Block::schedule_local() may write beyond end of ready_cnt array
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Use !higher_equal() check to skip top and values which fit.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Change the value of Tier3BackEdgeThreshold from 7000 to 60000
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: improvements of frame_describe
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Pass correct type to branch in LIRGenerator::do_SwitchRanges()
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Add Value() methods to short and byte Load nodes to truncate constants which does not fit.
Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart, kvn, twisti

Summary: Fix exception handler stub size, enable guarantees to check for the correct deopt and exception stub sizes in the future
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti

Summary: Decoder API changes did not reflect in os_bsd
Reviewed-by: kamg, dcubed

Summary: fix for debug method frame::describe
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Made decoder thread-safe
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Relax verification and locks elimination checks for new implementation (EliminateNestedLocks).
Reviewed-by: iveresov