Summary: Added a nop tracing infrastructure, JFR makefile changes and other infrastructure used only by JFR.
Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: markus.gronlund@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: acorn, phh, dcubed, sspitsyn

Summary: Setup thread register in MacroAssembler::incr_allocated_bytes() on x64
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Expose existing Management::_begin_vm_creation_time via new accessor Management::begin_vm_creation_time().
Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, mchung, dholmes

Summary: Use JavaThread::jvmti_thread_state() instead of JvmtiThreadState::state_for().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, poonam, acorn

Summary: Add os::get_last_error(), replace getLastErrorString() by os::lasterror() in os_windows.cpp.
Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes
Contributed-by: erik.gahlin@oracle.com

Summary: Used uintptr_t and void* for all the casts and checks in test_is_in.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, jmasa

Summary: Add rdtsc detection and inline generation.
Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes
Contributed-by: karen.kinnear@oracle.com

Summary: Leave i_o attached to slow allocation call when there are no i_o users after the call.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

Summary: Replaced the code with a ShouldNotReachHere
Reviewed-by: tonyp, jmasa

7123315: instanceKlass::_static_oop_field_count and instanceKlass::_java_fields_count should be u2 type.
Summary: Change instanceKlass::_static_oop_field_count and instanceKlass::_java_fields_count to u2 type.
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart, dholmes
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Summary: In os::free_memory() use mmap with the same attributes as for the heap space
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Ignatenko <aleksey.v.ignatenko@intel.com>

Summary: Correct Allocate expansion code to preserve i_o when only slow call is generated.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Distance is too large for one short branch in string_indexofC8().
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: fix usage of input register in assembly code for store check.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Change ClassFileParser::parseClassFile() to use the instanceKlass:_cached_class_file_bytes field to avoid leaking the cache.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, poonam

Summary: In CEE, ensure if and common successor state are at the same inline level
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Handle LVT attribute in the class file reconstitutor.
Reviewed-by: phh, coleenp
Contributed-by: Nthomaswue <thomas.wuerthinger@oracle.com>

Summary: Use a percentage of -Xms as min and another percentage of -Xmx as max for the young gen size
Reviewed-by: tonyp, johnc

Summary: Revamp class os's socket method formal args to match socket.h, insert casts in appropriate places, and copyin-copyout int*'s that s/b socklen_t*'s in jvm.cpp.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes
Contributed-by: erik.gahlin@oracle.com, rickard.backman@oracle.com, nils.loodin@oracle.com, markus.gronlund@oracle.com