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

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

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, egahlin

Summary: Allocate compressed class space at end of Java heap.  For small heap sizes, without CDS, save some space so compressed classes can have the same favorable compression as oops
Reviewed-by: stefank, hseigel, goetz

Summary: Moved restricted_align_down to globalDefinitions and renamed it align_size_down_bounded
Reviewed-by: stefank, mgerdin, tschatzl

Summary: more missing cases for JVM_CONSTANT_Method{Handle,Type}InError
Reviewed-by: hseigel, dcubed

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

Summary: Move protection domain oops from system dictionary entries into a seperate set; the system dictionary references entries in that set now. This allows fast iteration during non-classunloading garbage collection. Implementation based on initial prototype from Ioi Lam (iklam).
Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti, azeemj

Summary: Uses stack for the format buffer instead of resource memory
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Enable CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS in fastdebug builds across all supported platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, dholmes, stefank, twisti, ihse, rdurbin
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Incorrect usage of idx_t where bm_word_t is appropriate.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso
Contributed-by: NDan Horak <dhorak@redhat.com>

Summary: made changes to easily identify current log file in rotation. Parameterize the input with %t for time replacement in file name.
Reviewed-by: ccheung, tschatzl, tamao, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, sla

Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti

Reviewed-by: rbackman, twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com, vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use WinDbg API StackWalk64()
Reviewed-by: zgu, dholmes

Summary: declare all user-defined operator new()s within Hotspot code with the empty throw() exception specification
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, dholmes, hseigel, dcubed, kvn, ccheung
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Added AIX includes alpha-sorted before BSD. Fix compilation issues with xlC in shared code. Basic shared platform dependend adaption (vm_version etc.).
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, stefank

Summary: Replace the broken large pages implementation on Linux. New flag: -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages - Linux specific flag to turn on transparent huge page hinting with madvise(..., MAP_HUGETLB). Changed behavior: -XX:+UseLargePages - tries to use -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages before trying other large pages implementations (on Linux). Changed behavior: -XX:+UseHugeTLBFS - Use upfront allocation of Large Pages instead of using the broken implementation to dynamically committing large pages. Changed behavior: -XX:LargePageSizeInBytes - Turned off the ability to use this flag on Linux and provides warning to user if set to a value different than the OS chosen large page size. Changed behavior: Setting no large page size - Now defaults to use -XX:UseTransparentHugePages if the OS supports it. Previously, -XX:+UseHugeTLBFS was chosen if the OS was configured to use large pages.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, dcubed, brutisso

8016729: ObjectAlignmentInBytes=16 now forces the use of heap based compressed oops
8005933: The -Xshare:auto option is ignored for -server
Summary: Move klass metaspace above the heap and support CDS with compressed klass ptrs.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, mgerdin, tschatzl, stefank

Summary: Add appropriate documentation and references to publication to allow easier analysis of the TaskQueue implementation.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ehelin

Summary: Add a list of nmethods to the RSet for a region that contain references into the region. Skip scanning the code cache during root scanning and scan the nmethod lists during RSet scanning instead.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso, mgerdin, twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgerdin

Summary: fix method clone_projs() to clone all related MachProj nodes.
Reviewed-by: roland, adlertz

Summary: Forward port of 7u change to add additional fence() on RMO platforms, with a load_acquire on all platforms
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn

Summary: made event messages better readable
Reviewed-by: kvn, rbackman

Summary: ARM compilers do not emit FramePointer on each native frame by default
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu

Summary: On AIX 7.1 systemcfg.h defines IA64 unconditionally, so test for !AIX where IA64 is used.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, rdurbin

Summary: Dl_info struct should only be used if dladdr() has returned non-zero (no errors) and always check the dladdr() return value; Dl_info.dli_sname and Dl_info.dli_saddr fields should only be used if non-NULL; update/improve runtime/6888954/vmerrors.sh test
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, zgu, hseigel, coleenp

Summary: Distinguish PPC, PPC64 and PPC32. PPC should guard code needed on any PPC system. PPC32 and PPC64 should guard code needed in a port for the ppc64 or ppc32 instruction set.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, dholmes, coleenp, johnc

Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

Reviewed-by: zgu, coleenp
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: jeremymanson@google.com, calvin.cheung@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>