Reviewed-by: kbarrett, dholmes

Reviewed-by: hseigel, ccheung

Summary: Added a G1CollectorPolicyExt where it is possible to extend the class.
Reviewed-by: sjohanss, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung

Summary: Update the URL for HotSpot bug reports.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, rdurbin

Summary: Update the URL for HotSpot bug reports.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, rdurbin

Summary: Ergonomics updates flags for number of GC threads
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jwilhelm
Contributed-by: sangheon.kim@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, tschatzl, jmasa

Summary: Re-enabled warning as launcher change reached promotion build
Reviewed-by: hseigel, coleenp

Summary: Add checksum verification.
Reviewed-by: iklam, dholmes, mschoene

Summary: Cleaned up CDS to be more configurable, maintainable and extensible
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn, mchung

Summary: Enhance scalability of native memory tracking
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi, gtriantafill

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Store the value set by the user and some makefile changes required to change the flags.
Reviewed-by: sla, mchung, bchristi, jmasa, dholmes

Summary: Also consider os::vm_allocation_granularity in the calculation.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Also consider os::vm_allocation_granularity in the calculation.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Remove product flag -XX:CompilationRepeat
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: New API for unlocking diagnostic argument.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ccheung, egahlin, iklam, bdelsart

8042603: 'SafepointPollOffset' was not declared in static member function 'static bool Arguments::check_vm_args_consistency()'
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Define a new function that determines the minimum number of compiler threads for a particular platform/configuration.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Allow 0 compiler threads if no JIT is used.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes
Contributed-by: NSeverin Gehwolf <sgehwolf@redhat.com>

8043029: Change 8037816 breaks HS build with older GCC versions which don't support diagnostic pragmas
8043164: Format warning in traceStream.hpp
Summary: Backport of main fix + two corrections, enables clang compilation, turns on format attributes, corrects/mutes warnings
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, iveresov, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, ahgross

8029436: CICompilerCount is not updated when the number of compiler threads is adjusted to the number of CPUs
Summary: CICompilerCount is updated in AdvancedThresholdPolicy::initialize, SimpleThresholdPolicy::initialize and NonTieredCompPolicy::initialize. A warning is printed if the usersets both, CICompilerCount and CICompilerCountPerCPU.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NTobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann@oracle.com>

Summary: propagate node replacements along control flow edges to callers
Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Summary: Start test with -XX:-TieredCompilation so that one compiler thread works
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Ensure appropriate min. number of compiler threads (1 for non-tiered, and 2 for tiered)
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Added lower bound check for ValueMapInitialSize
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: ygaevsky@azulsystems.com

Summary: Made the flags Min- and MaxHeapFreeRatio manageable, and implemented support for these flags in ParallelGC.
Reviewed-by: sla, mgerdin, brutisso

Summary: Use RTM for inflated locks and stack locks.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti, roland, dcubed

Summary: Implementation of JEP 192, http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/192
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl, coleenp

Summary: Move the option to obsolete options list, purge the redundant compiler code.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: mgerdin
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@oracle.com

Summary: Added arguments_ext.cpp to make place for initialization of extended features
Reviewed-by: sla, mgronlun

Summary: The mismatch in declaration and definition has been encountered when compiling on a platform where the sizes are different. Change the method definition to match the declaration.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, sjohanss
Contributed-by: NDan Horak <dhorak@redhat.com>

8027314: Java should recognize Diagnostic options if -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions is not specified and print an informative message
Summary: clarifying the error messages associated with vm options of type diagnostic, experimental, develop, and notproduct
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, ctornqvi

Summary: c1 and interpreter support for new type profiling on sparc
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: GC log rotation can be set via java command line, but customer sometime need to sync with OS level rotation setting.
Reviewed-by: sla, minqi, ehelin
Contributed-by: suenaga.yasumasa@lab.ntt.co.jp

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