Summary: Add convenience method in StringTable, add WhiteBox method and simple sanity test
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, zgu
Contributed-by: leonid.mesnik@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, zgu
Contributed-by: peter.allwin@oracle.com

Summary: Avoid holding SystemDictionary_lock while calling Klass::remove_unshareable_info
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Supply a new flag -XX:+AssumeMP to workaround the problem. With the flag is turned on, assume VM run on MP platform so is_MP() will return true that sync calls will not skip away.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, dcubed, jmasa
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

8010474: [parfait] Undefined return value of the functions in hotspot/src/share/vm/services/memTracker.hpp
Summary: Fixed functions that miss return values
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, kvn

Summary: Fix text, overwritten type and holder for resolved method
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed, minqi, dholmes

Summary: Added a new test_env.txt file to capture common shell variable. Added concept of COMPILEJAVA for use when TESTJAVA is a JRE. If COMPILEJAVA not set then TESTJAVA will be the default with assumption it is a JDK.
Reviewed-by: kvn, brutisso, coleenp

Summary: Update test to recognize that non-zero pad bytes for lookupswitch/tablewsitch opcodes are now valid.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, twisti, kvn, coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Neglected to copy the annotations in clone_with_new_data when they were moved to ConstMethod.
Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn, dcubed

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, stefank

Summary: Remove old kernel build targets and VS C++ projects created by create.bat on Windows
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sla

Reviewed-by: dcubed, rbackman
Contributed-by: NJoel Borggren-Franck <joel.franck@oracle.com>

Summary: Put UseSplitVerifier option on the deprecated list.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kmo, acorn

Summary: Remove support for verification of class files with version 52 and above from type inference verifier.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel

8010667: Non-zero padding is not allowed in splitverifier for tableswitch/lookupswitch instructions.
Summary: Don't check the padding bits if class file version is >= 51.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Added @run tag so that it actually runs the test, also fixed broken command line and incorrect parsing. Also reviewed by gerard.ziemski@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, zgu

Reviewed-by: jcoomes