Summary: Add support for distribution-specific error reporting
Reviewed-by: coleenp, phh, jcoomes, ohair

Summary: Use os::malloc() to allocate buffer to read elf symbols and check for null
Reviewed-by: zgu, phh, dsamersoff, dholmes, dcubed

Summary: Write method signature handler under lock to prevent race with growable array resizing
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, dholmes

6766644: Redefinition of compiled method fails with assertion "Can not load classes with the Compiler thread"
Summary: Defer posting events from the compiler thread: use service thread
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, never, dcubed

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

Summary: Add option for gcc 4 and above, define JNIEXPORT and JNIIMPORT to visibility=default, add for jio_snprintf and others since -fvisibility=hidden overrides --version-script definitions.
Reviewed-by: kamg, never

Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

Summary: Update the Major and Build numbers for HS21
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: A race between the concurrent cleanup thread and the VM thread while it is processing the "expanded sparse table list" causes both threads to try to free the same sparse table entry and either causes one of the threads to fail or leaves the entry in an inconsistent state. The solution is purge all entries on the expanded list that correspond go regions that are being cleaned up.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: Use lea to compute field address in AtomicLongCSImpl::attemptUpdate() intrinsic on x86.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Implement support for ParallelRefProcEnabled in the reference processing that takes place at the end of G1 concurrent marking.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: Restore use of stillborn flag
Reviewed-by: acorn, alanb

Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

Summary: Two small fixes to deal with a guarantee failure (the marking thread should join the SuspendibleThreadSet before calling a method that does pause prediction work so that said method is never called during a pause) and an assert failure (an assert is too strong).
Reviewed-by: iveresov, johnc

Summary: Use long jumps to get from patching stubs to deopt blob
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Currently escape analysis is turned off when EnableInvokeDynamic is true.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: This changeset removes the zero-filling thread from G1 and collapses the two free region lists we had before (the "free" and "unclean" lists) into one. The new free list uses the new heap region sets / lists abstractions that we'll ultimately use it to keep track of all regions in the heap. A heap region set was also introduced for the humongous regions. Finally, this change increases the concurrency between the thread that completes freeing regions (after a cleanup pause) and the rest of the system (before we'd have to wait for said thread to complete before allocating a new region). The changest also includes a lot of refactoring and code simplification.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, johnc

Summary: Rebuild breakpoint cache at gc_epilogue instead of during oops_do
Reviewed-by: dcubed, ysr, coleenp

Summary: With recent G1 allocation path changes, the value of StackShadowPages in fast debug builds of the JVM, is no longer large enough to prevent the JVM C++ code from touching the stack guard pages. Increase the value of StackShadowPages to a suitable value.
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp, coleenp

Summary: The Relocator should pass a NULL methodOop when rewriting since its resource array can never contain breakpoints.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kvn, coleenp

Summary: Refine assertion to work before VMThread has started.
Reviewed-by: ysr, never, dholmes, acorn