Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for parameters on method entries
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl, kmo, tamao

Summary: Descriptions for Max/MinHeapFreeRatio updated
Reviewed-by: ehelin, jmasa

Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for return values at calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for arguments at calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa, coleenp

Summary: Fix typos and errors in descriptions of vm options in globals.hpp
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

Summary: Code cache sweeping based on method hotness; removed speculatively disconnect
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn

Summary: Add -XX:+VerifyStringTableAtExit option and code to verify StringTable invariants.
Reviewed-by: rdurbin, sspitsyn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, sla

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

Summary: skip verification for generated lambda classes
Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

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

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgerdin, hseigel

Reviewed-by: rasbold, tschatzl, jmasa
Contributed-by: yamauchi@google.com

6990419: CMS Remaining work for 6572569: consistently skewed work distribution in (long) re-mark pauses
Reviewed-by: rasbold, tschatzl, jmasa
Contributed-by: yamauchi@google.com

Summary: this fix also removes the -XX:+UseStringCache option
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, iklam

Summary: Requires: 8013789: Compiler bridges, 8015402: metafactory
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, coleenp, bharadwaj

8020059: The flag introduced by 8014972 is not defined if Hotspot is built  without a compiler (zero, ppc64 core build).
Summary: define CodeCacheMinimumUseSpace flag for cppInterpeter build.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add intrinsics using new instruction to interpreter, C1, C2, for suitable x86; add test
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8014972: Crash with specific values for -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=500K -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=500k
Summary: Introduce a minimum code cache size that guarantees that the VM can startup.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: The auto corrector for mistyped vm options fuzzy-matches existing flags based on string similarity (Dice's coefficient).
Reviewed-by: kvn, dsamersoff, hseigel, johnc

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>

Summary: Added command line parameter to define a threshold at which C1 compilation threshold for  is increased.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Setting some public integer options to specific values causes crashes or undefined GC behavior. This patchset adds the necessary argument checking for these options.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: Added the -XX:SharedArchiveFile option.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung, acorn, dcubed, zgu

Summary: Remove obsolete debugging code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: Make processing of minimum, initial and maximum heap size more intiutive by removing previous limitations on allowed values, and make error reporting consistent. Further, fix errors in ergonomic heap sizing.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm, tamao

Summary: Keep sweeping regardless of if we are flushing
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Summary: Allow task queues to be mmapped instead of malloced on Solaris
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, johnc, tschatzl

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