Reviewed-by: hseigel, lfoltan, coleenp, ahgross

Summary: The new code in 8u backport should guard the execution of the following code instead of return.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: Check for safepoint and block during EA Connection graph construction.
Reviewed-by: roland, vlivanov, shade

Summary: Don't remove KILL projections if their "defining" nodes have SCMemProj projection (memory side effects).
Reviewed-by: iveresov, roland

Reviewed-by: hseigel, ccheung

Reviewed-by: jrose, acorn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: jrose, acorn, vlivanov

Summary: code in PhaseIterGVN::add_users_to_worklist() from 8054478 makes incorrect assumption about graph shape
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: dead backbranch in main loop results in erroneous array access
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Open compilation log files in write-mode and close before deletion attempt.
Reviewed-by: vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Moved allocation context update from remark to the cleanup phase.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jmasa

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

Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung

Summary: note all MemberNames created on internal list for adjusting method entries.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, lfoltan

Summary: Ignore non-instance Klasses in the subclass hierarchy.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iignatyev, jrose

Reviewed-by: sla, stefank

Reviewed-by: dcubed, pnauman, ctornqvi, dholmes, mschoene
Contributed-by: gerald.thornbrugh@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dcubed, pnauman, ctornqvi, dholmes, mschoene
Contributed-by: gerald.thornbrugh@oracle.com

Summary: Read _top before _gc_time_stamp in saved_mark_word() with LoadLoad order to ensure we get a consistent view
Reviewed-by: brutisso, dcubed, dholmes, stefank

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, coleenp, mgerdin

8056071: compiler/whitebox/IsMethodCompilableTest.java fails with 'method() is not compilable after 3 iterations'
Summary: Always use MDO if valid and always compile trivial methods with C1 if available.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Signed bitfield size y can only have (1 << y)-1 values.
Reviewed-by: shade, dholmes, jrose, ctornqvi, gtriantafill

8062036: ConcurrentMarkThread::slt may be invoked before ConcurrentMarkThread::makeSurrogateLockerThread causing intermittent crashes
Summary: Suppress gc_alot during VM init, improve error for SLT uninitialized.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Change CDS non-fatal preloading errors to warnings.
Reviewed-by: minqi, mseledtsov, coleenp

Summary: backout fix 8050808 which caused this regression and as requested.
Reviewed-by: hseigel

8064556: G1: ParallelGCThreads=0 may cause assert(!MetadataOnStackMark::has_buffer_for_thread(Thread::current())) failed: Should be empty
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, tschatzl

8060467: CMS: small OldPLABSize and -XX:-ResizePLAB cause assert(ResizePLAB || n_blks == OldPLABSize) failed: Error
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa, kbarrett

8058251: assert(_count > 0) failed: Negative counter when running runtime/NMT/MallocTrackingVerify.java
Summary: Fixed an issue when overflowing the MallocSite hash table bucket
Reviewed-by: coleenp, gtriantafill

Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, coleenp

8057622: java/util/stream/test/org/openjdk/tests/java/util/stream/InfiniteStreamWithLimitOpTest: SEGV inside compiled code (sparc)
Summary: In Parse::array_store_check(), add control edge FROM IfTrue branch of runtime type check of the destination array TO loading _element_klass from destination array.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, anoll
Contributed-by: NZoltan Majo <zoltan.majo@oracle.com>

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

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

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, pnauman, ctornqvi, mschoene
Contributed-by: gerald.thornbrugh@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

8065346: WB_AddToBootstrapClassLoaderSearch calls JvmtiEnv::create_a_jvmti when not in _thread_in_vm state
Summary: Removed ThreadToNativeFromVM and use java_lang_String::as_utf8_string instead
Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi

Summary: Added API to track bootclasspath modification
Reviewed-by: jiangli, dholmes, minqi

Summary: Throw VerifyError for illegal accesses
Reviewed-by: acorn, ahgross, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jmasa, ahgross
Contributed-by: sangheon.kim@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: brutisso, stefank, ahgross