Summary: Refactored shrink_by() to only use region counts and not byte sizes
Reviewed-by: johnc, tschatzl

Summary: Make processing of minimum, initial and maximum heap size more intiutive by removing previous limitations on allowed values, and make error reporting consistent. Further, fix errors in ergonomic heap sizing.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm, tamao

Summary: Make sure max alignemnt is at least as large as min alignment
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Make sure that _num_jvm_args is not updated until the new entry to _jvm_args_array has been added
Reviewed-by: johnc, tamao, tschatzl

Summary: remove unused parameter in dtrace macros
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: albert.noll@oracle.com

Summary: Do not treat static methods as miranda methods.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: Auto adjust number of stack guard pages on systems with large memory page size
Reviewed-by: bobv, coleenp

8013364: SA-JDI exceptions caused by lack of permissions on OSX should be more verbose about issue cause
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rbackman

Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, hseigel

Reviewed-by: sla, brutisso

Summary: Grab and drop SR_lock to get the thread to honor the safepoint protocol
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, rbackman, minqi

Summary: Reserved memory had PROT_READ+PROT_WRITE access on Linux/bsd, now changed to PROT_NONE.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ctornqvi

Summary: Instead of terminating the VM, throw OutOfMemoryError exceptions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Keep sweeping regardless of if we are flushing
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8013129: Possible deadlock with Metaspace locks due to mixed usage of safepoint aware and non-safepoint aware locking
Summary: Change Metaspace::deallocate to take lock with _no_safepoint_check_flag
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, alanb, cjplummer, olagneau
Contributed-by: NCarlos Lucasius <carlos.lucasius@oracle.com>

Summary: Change the assert to if check as MethodCounters could be NULL under TieredCompilation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8011898: gc/TestVerifyBeforeGCDuringStartup.java: java.lang.RuntimeException: '[Verifying' missing from stdout/stderr: [Error: Could not find or load main class]
Summary: System.getProperty("test.java.opts") can return NULL, which gets converted to to the empty string, and the child java command then interprets that as the name of the main class.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso