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

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

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: 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

8028126: nsk/jvmti/scenarios/hotswap/HS101/hs101t006 Crashed the vm on Solaris-sparc64 fastdebug builds: only current thread can flush its registers
Summary: Fix a race between VMOp_GetCurrentLocation reaching a safepoint and arget thread exiting from Java execution
Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes, dsamersoff
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: hseigel, lfoltan, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, lfoltan, hseigel

Summary: fix code to allow testing on Fujitsu Sparc64 CPUs
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: memory ordering fixes in GC and other runtime code showing on PPC64.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Extend ELF-decoder to support PPC64 function descriptor tables
Reviewed-by: kvn, zgu

Summary: On PPC64 use tdi instruction that does a compare and raises SIGTRAP for NULL and range checks.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use new nodes for loadFence/storeFence intrinsics in C2.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes

Summary: Catch missing-because-illegal case for itable entries and use an exception-throwing method instead of null.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jrose, coleenp

Summary: Add verification to check that invokespecial of an InterfaceMethodref names a method in a direct superinterface of the current class or interface in accordance with JSR 335, JVMS 4.9.2 Structural Constraints.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel, coleenp
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Reduced the number of calls to follow_class_loader and instead marked and pushed the klass holder directly. Also removed unneeded calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, mgerdin, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: dholmes, egahlin

Summary: Also introduces the compiler oracle 'option' feature for PrintAssembly.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Summary: smaller shared changes required to build the C2 compiler on PPC64.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fixed Implicit NULL check optimization for AIX, where the page at address '0' is only write-protected.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Exclude private methods when checking for final method override.
Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp, dholmes, mseledtsov

Summary: extends MachCall nodes so that they can issue constants to the constant table
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: rbp not restored when stack overflow is thrown from deopt/uncommon trap blobs
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Minimal VM doesn't run
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: fix CPP-interpreter after CheckUnhandledOops was re-enabled in the fastdebug build
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, lfoltan

Reviewed-by: dcubed, sla