Summary: Check for failed expansion of stub section in code buffer and bailout.
Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Summary: Introduce the PreserveFramePointer flag to control if RBP is used as the frame pointer or as a general purpose register.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, dlong, enevill, shade

Summary: Take into account space needed for "trampoline code" used by calls on PPC64.
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: lutz.schmidt@sap.com

Summary: Add intrinsics/stub routines support for single-block and multi-block (as used by Cipher Block Chaining mode) AES encryption and decryption operations on the SPARC platform.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@oracle.com

Summary: do vector right shift operation for small int types only after loads
Reviewed-by: jrose, dlong

Summary: Add generation of vectors for scalar shift count.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti, dlong

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

Summary: Added asm encoding and mach nodes for vector arithmetic instructions on x86.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: renamed mach nodes which use scalar AVX instructions, added integer vectors shuffling instructions
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: disable vectorization of a memory access with more elements per vector than one which is used for alignment on sparc
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Increase vector size up to 256-bits for YMM AVX registers on x86.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, roland

Summary: use shorter instruction sequences for atomic add and atomic exchange when possible.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Save whole XMM/YMM registers in safepoint interrupt handler.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: Replace call_epilog() encoding with macroassembler use. Moved duplicated code to x86.ad. Fixed return_addr() definition.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Use 3-operands SIMD instructions in C2 generated code for machines with AVX.
Reviewed-by: never