Summary: Backport change to correct interface initialization.
Reviewed-by: gtriantafill, sspitsyn, dholmes

Summary: extract processor count from sched_getaffinity mask
Reviewed-by: dholmes, gthornbr

8042660: vm/mlvm/anonloader/stress/byteMutation failed with: assert(index >=0 && index < _length) failed: symbol index overflow
Summary: Detect zero length signatures and throw ClassFormatError before bad dereference occurs
Reviewed-by: hseigel

8131333: [TESTBUG] RedefineRunningMethodsWithResolutionErrors.java Improperly specified VM option 'TraceRedefineClasses=0x600'
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Fix up GPL headers so that the RE script works.
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, coleenp

Reviewed-by: stuefe, dsamersoff, dcubed

Summary: For *store bytecodes, compare incoming, not outgoing, type state with exception handlers' stack maps.
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes
Contributed-by: cheleswer.sahu@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, fzhinkin, farvidsson

8067232: [TESTBUG] runtime/CheckEndorsedAndExtDirs/EndorsedExtDirs.java fails with ClassNotFoundException
Summary: Added explicit build instructions for test library
Reviewed-by: minqi, mchung, jiangli

Reviewed-by: hseigel, ccheung

Summary: Unsafe is not recommended and may deprecated in future. Added a WhiteBox API to get VM page size.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ccheung, mseledtsov
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: in FileMapInfo::fail_continue do not set UseSharedSpaces = false
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ccheung

Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung

Summary: Signed bitfield size y can only have (1 << y)-1 values.
Reviewed-by: shade, dholmes, jrose, ctornqvi, gtriantafill

8058251: assert(_count > 0) failed: Negative counter when running runtime/NMT/MallocTrackingVerify.java
Summary: Fixed an issue when overflowing the MallocSite hash table bucket
Reviewed-by: coleenp, gtriantafill

Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dsimms

Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn, jfranck

Summary: ClassLoader for array klass set to null and not the class loader of the component type.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, ctornqvi

8058818: Allocation of more then 1G of memory using Unsafe.allocateMemory is still causing a fatal error on 32bit platforms
Summary: The assert was firing for NMT_Off and minimal too even though the size isn't used.
Reviewed-by: gtriantafill, dholmes

Reviewed-by: lfoltan, hseigel

Summary: Copied CDS tests from jdk-9 to jdk8u40
Reviewed-by: ccheung, dholmes

Summary: Disable the test until related Java launcher change reaches promotion build
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, gtriantafill

8055844: [TESTBUG] test/runtime/NMT/VirtualAllocCommitUncommitRecommit.java fails on Solaris Sparc due to incorrect page size being used
Summary: Use 128KB chunks for virtual memory operations
Reviewed-by: zgu, gtriantafill

Summary: Remove check that causes the VerifyError
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn

8055765: Misplaced @key stress prevents MallocSiteHashOverflow.java and MallocStressTest.java tests from running
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, zgu, hseigel

Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, sla

Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, zgu

8055052: [TESTBUG] runtime/NMT/JcmdDetailDiff.java fails on Windows when there are no debug symbols available
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, hseigel

Summary: disable failing test
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, zgu

Summary: enable tests for NMT2
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, zgu

8055061: assert at share/vm/services/virtualMemoryTracker.cpp:332 Error: ShouldNotReachHere() when running NMT tests
Summary: Handled CDS mapping region and added test for the scenario
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi

Summary: The new NMT2 tests got lost on the way into jdk9 yesterday, this change adds them.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, ctornqvi

Summary: Create new/modify existing tests for NMT2, which is an internal redesign to address scalability issues in the first implementation.
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, zgu
Contributed-by: NGeorge Triantafillou <george.triantafillou@oracle.com>

Summary: keep a list of handlers to prevent the same handler from being scanned repeatedly.
Reviewed-by: dlong, dholmes

8038268: VM Crashes in MetaspaceShared::generate_vtable_methods while creating CDS archive with limiting SharedMiscCodeSize
Summary: estimate the minimum required size for the misc code region and check if the specified misc code region size meets the minimum size requirement
Reviewed-by: jiangli, dholmes

Summary: Remove check that causes the VerifyError
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn

Reviewed-by: stefank, tschatzl

Summary: Added a new header waiting pattern to catch the case where the target thread waiting on a condition (like a VM op); several other test improvements
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dholmes