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

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

Summary: Add/refine new tracing support using -XX:TraceRedefineClasses=16384.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: NJeremy Manson <jeremymanson@google.com>

Summary: Fix off-by-one error
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

8006907: Hotspot should reject classfiles with multiple MethodParameters attributes
Summary: Update to Hotspot's processing of MethodParameters attributes in classfiles
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose

8000968: NPG: UseCompressedKlassPointers asserts with ObjectAlignmentInBytes for > 32G CompressedOops
Summary: Pick a base that works for both CompressedOpps alignment and CompressedKlassPtrs alignment.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: On Windows, set rw protection on the CDS file just before removing it.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, iklam

Summary: Introduce a protocol to discover manageble Java instances across a network subnet, JDP
Reviewed-by: sla, dfuchs

Summary: Removed unnecessary shell script in the test.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sla

Summary: Add tests for the Native Memory Tracking feature, includes regression tests for 8005936 and 8004802
Reviewed-by: zgu, coleenp

Summary: Add WB API functions to enable better NMT testing
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu

Summary: Change error messages for malformed options so the messages are more useful.
Reviewed-by: mikael, kvn, nloodin

Summary: The invokedynamic bytecode ref to a CP entry needs to be checked and fixed as well.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Simple typos that need to be fixed
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Need a support for invokedynamic entry kinds when new and old constant pools are merged.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: After bug 7161732, On Windows SA could not find correct address of thread_id of OSThread since _thread_id moved to end of the class . The presupposition of the address is following thread handle no longer stands. Fix by adding thread_id field to OSThread and getting the  address directly from OSThread.
Reviewed-by: nloodin, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Recognize VM generated method in old verifier
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavelli@oracle.com

Summary: jcmd <pid> GC.class_stats (UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions)
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, sla, acorn
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Summary: Removed depreciated kernel VM source code from hotspot VM
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes