Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn
Contributed-by: martin.doerr@sap.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Swap the Projs in the block list so that the new block is added behind the proper node.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add ConstantTableBase node edge after parameters and before jvms. Adapt jvms offsets.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: JFR needs this fix to run on PPC
Reviewed-by: sla, mikael

Summary: Add StoreStore barriers after object initialization and after constructor calls in the C++ interpreter.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Implementation of JDK 8 JVMS 5.4.3.4 specification change to skip static and non-public methods of java.lang.Object for interface method resolution.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

8029153: [TESTBUG] test/compiler/7141637/SpreadNullArg.java fails because it expects NullPointerException
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Add support for replacement variable CondRegister in adlc.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8029106: JVM crashes in Metachunk::Metachunk during parallel class redefinition (PrivateMLetController, anonymous-simple_copy_1)
Summary: Fixed overflow bug in VirtualSpaceNode::is_available
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso, coleenp, jmasa

Summary: Reducing the number of calls to follow_class_loader to speed up the marking phase. Also removed some unnecessary calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: check the state of caller and callee nmethods and skip call site patching if any of them is not alive
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

8029415: java/lang/reflect/Method/invoke/TestPrivateInterfaceMethodReflect.java fails on all platforms with hs25-b61
Summary: Check first that a class is not a dynamically-generated bytecode associated with 1.4 reflection implementation, to emitting an ICCE of an invokespecial IMR of a method in an indirect superinterface.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, sspitsyn

Summary: SA missed some TLABs
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, mgerdin, brutisso

Summary: Use the anonymous class's host class for protected access checks
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, lfoltan

Summary: Use non-relocatable code to load byte_map_base
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland