Summary: Check for exception during SystemDictionary::resolve_instance_class_or_null() and clean up.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, hseigel, minqi
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

8009614: nsk/split_verifier/stress/ifelse/ifelse002_30 fails with 'assert((size & (granularity - 1)) == 0) failed: size not aligned to os::vm_allocation_granularity()
Summary: Align up vm allocation size to os defined granularity
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: add null pointer check in signal handler
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Macosx uses Mach-O file format for binary files, not ELF format. Currently SA works on core files on other platforms, t his change enables SA work on core file generated on Darwin.
Reviewed-by: sla, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Store metadata on ClassFileParser instance to be cleaned up by destructor.  This enabled some refactoring of the enormous parseClassFile function.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, acorn

Summary: -Xshare:dump was creating a Symbol in C_heap.  There's an assert there that jdk jprt wasn't hitting because it was only done in product
Reviewed-by: dholmes, hseigel, iklam

Summary: Some zeroing was missed for bug 8003553, causing empty stack traces and Xcom crashes, add back zeroing to metablock
Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman

Reviewed-by: johnc

Summary: Print the concurrent phase start markers for CMS when PrintGCDetails is enabled, not only if both PrintGCDetails and PrintGCTimeStamps are.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jmasa

Summary: Take the initial heap size into account when checking the heap size for compressed oops
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kvn, hseigel, ctornqvi

Summary: The minimal JVM is printing a warning message for default settings when it should quitely ignore them.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Disable @Contended support for static fields
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: Don't scan pages outside the given range.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa

8009282: Assertion "assert(used_and_free == capacity_bytes) failed: Accounting is wrong" failed with -XX:+Verbose -XX:+TraceMetadataChunkAllocation
Summary: Assertion is only valid when at a safepoint, adjust accordingly.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, tamao

8009723: CMS logs "concurrent mode failure" twice when using (disabling) -XX:-UseCMSCompactAtFullCollection
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, ehelin, brutisso

Summary: Zero metadata in constructors, not in allocation (and some in constructors)
Reviewed-by: jmasa, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes