7011865: JSR 292 CTW fails: !THREAD->is_Compiler_thread() failed: Can not load classes with the Compiler thre
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: This new default has shown improvement across many workloads.
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

Summary: And out lsb which is set for symbols in constant pool slots to distinguish them from strings
Reviewed-by: phh, dholmes, never, dcubed

7024970: 2/3 assert(ServiceThread::is_service_thread(Thread::current())) failed: Service thread must post enqueue
Summary: Change nmethod_lock() to also prevent zombification of the nmethod. CompiledMethodUnload events also need to lock the nmethod. Clean ups in nmethod::make_not_entrant_or_zombie()
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kamg, never, dsamersoff, ysr, coleenp, acorn

Summary: Move initialization of the '_instance' field to avoid race with ServiceThread start.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kamg, never, dsamersoff, ysr, coleenp, acorn

Summary: package and class renaming only; delete unused methods and classes
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: consolidate runtime support in java.dyn.MethodHandleNatives; include transitional compatibility logic
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Remove _last_pc_desc and use pcdescs[0] instead.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp, ysr

Summary: add missing check this->dual() != TypeAryPtr::OOPS into TypeAryPtr::klass().
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: incorrect handling of c2i deoptimization on little endian architectures
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: removed an ifdef IA32 around harmless code useful for some ports
Reviewed-by: chrisphi, never

Summary: Use largest_free_block() instead of unallocated_capacity().
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never, ysr

Summary: Put symbol printing under Verbose and WizardMode so you can get this information if you really want it.
Reviewed-by: phh, stefank, never, dholmes, jcoomes

6965570: assert(!needs_patching && x->is_loaded(),"how do we know it's volatile if it's not loaded")
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: arrays pointers meet must fall to bottom if exact array klasses in upper lattice are not equal or super klass is exact.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: This implements adaptive tiered compilation policy.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Update the HS21 build number to 04
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Only call <clinit> with ACC_STATIC for classfiles with version > 50
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Fix compilation error(s)
Reviewed-by: kvn, phh, jcoomes, dholmes

Summary: Redefine classes copies the constant pool while the constant pool may be resolving strings or classes
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dsamersoff, acorn

Summary: Put UseFastLocking test under #ifdef COMPILER1
Reviewed-by: kvn, phh, never, dcubed