8007772: G1: assert(!hr->isHumongous() || mr.start() == hr->bottom()) failed: the start of HeapRegion and MemRegion should be consistent for humongous regions
Summary: In do_marking_step(), we should always give up current region after scanning the object, if the region is humongous.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jwilhelm, tamao

Summary: Use Stack<> instead of GrowableArray to keep track of preserved marks. Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jcoomes

Summary: Flags changed to be of uintx type
Reviewed-by: johnc, tamao

Summary: Skip unnecessary scanning of bitmap for unmarked humongous objects/regions.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, johnc
Contributed-by: NTao Mao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: check ndimensions before accessing length[i] element
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: Reuse the parallel reference processing oop closures during serial reference processing.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov
Contributed-by: NIgor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>

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

Summary: Flush any deferred card mark before a Java thread exits.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

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: wrong detection for dead call sites.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: missing test for loaded klass in c1
Reviewed-by: kvn

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: Fix size checks in assert and corrected some print formats. Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

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