7123945: runtime/6878713/Test6878713.sh require about 2G of native memory, swaps and times out
Summary: Add new diagnostic option -XX:MallocMaxTestWords=NNN and fix Test6878713.sh.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp, dholmes, iklam

Summary: Disable @Contended support for static fields
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

7107135: Stack guard pages are no more protected after loading a shared library with executable stack
Summary: Detect the execstack attribute of the loaded library and attempt to fix the stack guard using Safepoint op.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Summary: Small changes to hotspot tests to remove  "-server" and replace with ${TESTVMOPTS}
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: if more than 100 seconds and more than 100 iterations have both passed, then exit is allowed.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: GetAndSetP's MachNode should capture bottom type.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: InitializeNode::can_capture_store() must check that the captured store doesn't overwrite a memory location that is loaded before the store.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add regression test for crash seen in 8005875. Test is run with G1 and PGCT=0 and issues "jcmd <pid> Thread.print" against itself. Without the fix for 8005875 the test will crash.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Regression test for 8000311. Verifies that PLABStats works with zero parallel GC threads.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc
Contributed-by: NFilipp Zhinkin <filipp.zhinkin@oracle.com>

Summary: Modify WhiteBoxAPI to use interface classes from test/testlibrary instead, add ClassFileInstaller to resolve the boot class path issue
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, dsamersoff, coleenp, kvn

Summary: Added few checks and early bailout from Superword optimization to avoid such cases in a future.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: Strip lines matching the performance warning from the output before diff.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Added an explicit timeouts.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: ehelin, jwilhelm, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

8009761: Deoptimization on sparc doesn't set Llast_SP correctly in the interpreter frames it creates
Summary: deoptimization doesn't set up callee frames so that they restore caller frames correctly.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: make the test less prone to timeout by reducing the amount of iteration and allowing main to be compiled
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: allocate method annotations and attach to ConstMethod if present
Reviewed-by: dcubed, jiangli, sspitsyn, iklam

Summary: Four tests written for 8006298
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp

Reviewed-by: stefank, mgerdin

Summary: Fix off-by-one error
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

8000968: NPG: UseCompressedKlassPointers asserts with ObjectAlignmentInBytes for > 32G CompressedOops
Summary: Pick a base that works for both CompressedOpps alignment and CompressedKlassPtrs alignment.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Removed unnecessary shell script in the test.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sla

Summary: Add tests for the Native Memory Tracking feature, includes regression tests for 8005936 and 8004802
Reviewed-by: zgu, coleenp

Summary: rewrote the test to be more reliable, add test for invalid size exception
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add a few utility classes to test/testlibrary to support multi process testing in jtreg tests. Added a test case for one of the utility classes. Also reviewed by Vitaly Davidovich
Reviewed-by: brutisso, dholmes, vlivanov, nloodin, mgerdin

Summary: Use SSE4.2 and AVX2 instructions for encodeArray intrinsic.
Reviewed-by: roland

Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, brutisso

Summary: Add proper jtreg annotations in the preceding comment, including an explicit timeout.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: david.r.chase@oracle.com

Summary: use 256bit vpxor,vptest instructions in String.compareTo() and equals() intrinsics.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: ohair

Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso, kvn, ctornqvi
Contributed-by: erik.helin@oracle.com

Summary: Added missing exception path for multidimensional array allocation and use Throwable type instead of OutOfMemoryError for allocation's exception.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Enable AES intrinsics on non-AVX cpus, group together aes instructions in crypto stubs.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NRichard Reingruber <richard.reingruber@sap.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Pass down a closure during root scanning to keep the class of the method alive.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jcoomes

Summary: Increase the stack size in the run parameters.
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: david.r.chase@oracle.com

Summary: Added missed type check of initializing store in ConnectionGraph::find_init_values().
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti, vlivanov