Reviewed-by: kvn

8003848: Make ConstMethod::generic_signature_index optional and move Method::_max_stack to ConstMethod.
Summary: Make ConstMethod::generic_signature_index optional and move Method::_max_stack to ConstMethod.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, sspitsyn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NRoman Kennke <rkennke@redhat.com>

Summary: Removed duplicate entries
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp

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

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn

Summary: Fixed message buffer size calculation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: The flags MinHeapDeltaBytes and UseNUMAInterleaving must be adjusted after the OS have adjusted the UseNUMA flag in the method os::init_2.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, brutisso
Contributed-by: erik.helin@oracle.com

Summary: When java process crashed in compiler thread, repeat the compilation process will help finding root cause. This is done with using SA dump application class data and replay data from core dump, then use debug version of jvm to recompile the problematic java method.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Check that the values specified for -XX:StringTableSize are within a certain range.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: dll_dir can contain multiple paths, need to parse them correctly when loading agents
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong
Contributed-by: bill.pittore@oracle.com

Summary: Change types of above methods and field to InstanceKlass and remove unneeded casts from the source files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, kmo

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, twisti
Contributed-by: NRoman Kennke <rkennke@redhat.com>

Summary: Disable -XX:+UseLargePages for MacOS X
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Remove support for the UseVectoredExceptions flag
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kamg
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Use new x86 AES instructions for AESCrypt.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, roland
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

Summary: Enhanced virtual memory tracking to track committed regions as well as reserved regions, so NMT now can generate virtual memory map.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp

Summary: Added code to write the value of the java.class.path property to the hs_err file.
Reviewed-by: kmo, dholmes, kvn
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: The -XX:+UseVMInterruptibleIO flag is deprecated for JDK8.  The flag will still enable Interruptible IO on Solaris, but users will get a warning.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, alanb
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Add generic type analysis and default method selection algorithms
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: add LogCompilation support in C1 - both client and tiered mode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Enables dynamic enrollment / disenrollment from the PeriodicTasks in WatcherThread.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mgronlun

Summary: Remove buggy experimental option
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Change the flags and variables related to tenuring threshold to be unsigned
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Reviewed-by: johnc

Reviewed-by: brutisso, neliasso

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

8000230: Change os::print_location to be more descriptive when a location is pointing into an object
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, twisti

Summary: Added missed _bottom_type set in ArchDesc::defineExpand() and missed vector nodes in MatchRule::is_vector().
Reviewed-by: twisti, roland, dlong

Summary: The warnings associated with the UseMemSetInBOT flag are duplicated in CMS and G1. The separate warnings have been removed and single instance of the warning has been placed in a common location.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr

Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank, jprovino, ohair