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

Summary: Disable tiered compilation in jdk8 because of CodeCache and performance anomalies
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov
Contributed-by: NIgor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov
Contributed-by: NIgor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: treat anonymous classes as privileged code to restore the special handling for @Compiled during class file parsing
Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, kvn, dholmes

Summary: Limit vectors size to 16 bytes on BSD until the problem is fixed
Reviewed-by: twisti

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

Summary: pass the output stream to node->dump() and everything reachable from there
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

Summary: Don't handle CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT event when the process is running in a non-interactive session
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, acorn

Summary: check_for_valid_safepoint_state() only applies to blocking VM ops
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, dice, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: karen.kinnear@oracle.com

Summary: misc correctness fixes
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, dice, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: dave.dice@oracle.com

Summary: Add missing Handle.
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, dice, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: karen.kinnear@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, brutisso

Summary: Use HW_MEMSIZE instead of HW_USERMEM to get a 64 bit value of the physical memory on the machine. Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com.
Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes, dlong, mikael

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: fix increment problem with saved_version
Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Remove Method* from backtrace but save version so redefine classes doesn't give inaccurate line numbers.  Removed old Merlin API with duplicate code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

Summary: Define jlong as long on all LP64 platforms and add JLONG_FORMAT macro.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, mikael, kvn

Reviewed-by: brutisso, jfranck

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

Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>