Reviewed-by: coleenp, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: xmeet when both inputs are MetadataPtr.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Remove incorrect cast
Reviewed-by: brutisso, coleenp

Summary: If the commit fails, the size isn't set so the assert fails.
Reviewed-by: kamg

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: johnc

Summary: Added capability to load support classes for other cpus
Reviewed-by: coleenp, bobv, sla
Contributed-by: NBill Pittore <bill.pittore@oracle.com>

Summary: Add inline directives to os::Linux::supports_monotonic_clock() and os::Bsd::supports_monotonic_clock().
Reviewed-by: johnc, azeemj, mikael
Contributed-by: NBrandon Mitchell <brandon@twitter.com>

Summary: Do not remove safepoints during peeling optimization.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Add case for CYGWIN in .sh files.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: pavel.punegov@oracle.com

7192406: JSR 292: C2 needs exact return type information for invokedynamic and invokehandle call sites
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add the flags G1EvacuationFailureALot flag (and supporting flags) to force trigger evacuation failures. The support flags control how often to trigger an evacuation failure and during which types of evacuation pause. This functionality is analogous to that of PromotionFailureALot for the other collectors.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: NTao Mao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: Add split_arena to allocate temporary arrays in PhaseChaitin::Split() and free them on method's exit.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Change pair check to vector check in RA bias coloring code.
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

7178363: G1: Remove the serial code for PrintGCDetails and make it a special case of the parallel code
Summary: Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com. Introduced the WorkerDataArray class. Fixed some minor logging bugs.
Reviewed-by: johnc, mgerdin

Summary: Also reviewed by: vitalyd@gmail.com. Make G1DefaultMinNewGenPercent, G1DefaultMaxNewGenPercent, G1OldCSetRegionLiveThresholdPercent and G1OldCSetRegionThresholdPercent experimental flags
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc, jmasa

Summary: Fixed Pack node generation. Not vectorize shift instructions if count is not the same for all shifts and if count is vector.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: C1 value numbering hits unloaded klass.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, dsamersoff, nloodin

Summary: Shifts with loop variant counts "a[i]=1<<b[i];" should not be vectorized since hw does not support it.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Correct the result value of G1CollectedHeap::pending_card_num(). Change the code that calculates the GC efficiency of a non-young heap region to use historical data from mixed GCs and the actual number of live bytes when predicting how long it would take to collect the region. Changes were also reviewed by Thomas Schatzl.
Reviewed-by: azeemj, brutisso

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, jrose

Summary: G1 does not appear to be immune to the issue described in CR 6948537 and increasing the size of old-generation PLABs appears to increase the liklihood of seeing the issue. Extend the fix for 6948537 to G1's BlockOffsetTable.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa