Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Incorrect usage of idx_t where bm_word_t is appropriate.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso
Contributed-by: NDan Horak <dhorak@redhat.com>

8024396: VM crashing with assert(!UseLargePages || UseParallelOldGC || use_large_pages) failed: Wrong alignment to use large pages
Summary: Loosen wrong assert for UseParallelOldGC to UseParallelGC
Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin, coleenp, jmasa

Reviewed-by: brutisso, ehelin

Reviewed-by: stefank, hseigel, mgerdin

Summary: Use conservative assumptions of required alignment for the various garbage collector components into account when determining the maximum heap size that supports compressed oops. Using this conservative value avoids several circular dependencies in the calculation.
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes

Summary: Correctly calculate the initialization value for the shift between object start and bitmap bit in the G1 mark bitmaps.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Use best-fit block-splitting freelist allocation from the block freelist.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank

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

Reviewed-by: azeemj, brutisso, kvn, tschatzl

Summary: Added brackets for if-statement
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Moved local scheduling code from class Block to class PhaseCFG
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

8023381: VM fails to initialize in runtime/CDSCompressedKPtrs/XShareAuto.java runtime/SharedArchiveFile/CdsSameObjectAlignment.java
Summary: Improve handling when CDS archive cannot be mapped
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, mseledtsov

Summary: skip verification for generated lambda classes
Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes

Summary: Fixed a memory leak in FlatProfiler::record_thread_tick() method
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ccheung

8019902: G1: Use the average heap size rather than the minimum heap size to calculate the region size
Reviewed-by: tonyp, tschatzl, sjohanss

Summary: declare all user-defined operator new()s within Hotspot code with the empty throw() exception specification
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, dholmes, hseigel, dcubed, kvn, ccheung
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: don't re-evaluate stack bounds for main thread before install guard page
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, dlong

8016764: JVM does not prohibit invokespecial in c.f.v 51.0 that invokes default interface method in c.f.v 52.0
Summary: Check cfv before allowing invokespecial call to default method.
Reviewed-by: kamg, acorn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

Summary: Avoid loading old values in G1 pre-barriers for inlined unsafe load_store nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn, tonyp
Contributed-by: NMartin Doerr <martin.doerr@sap.com>

Summary: removed offending EXCEPTION_MARK calls and code cleanup
Reviewed-by: dholmes, iklam, coleenp, mseledtsov

Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

Summary: Method pointer for zombie methods may be invalid
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Add the relevant test and proofread the VM messages as well
Reviewed-by: coleenp, mseledtsov, dcubed

8022595: JSR292: deadlock during class loading of MethodHandles, MethodHandleImpl & MethodHandleNatives
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Create public methods for accessing the nodes in a block
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Return NULL on OOM from GetStringChars, GetStringUTFChars and Get<PrimitiveType>ArrayElements family of functions.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Make tests query a new WhiteBox API to see if NMT detail is supported, and behave properly if it is not supported.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Added support for statically linked agents
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, bobv, coleenp

Reviewed-by: acorn, sla