Summary: improvements of frame_describe
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart, kvn, twisti

Summary: Fix exception handler stub size, enable guarantees to check for the correct deopt and exception stub sizes in the future
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti

Summary: fix for debug method frame::describe
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Nested locks elimination done before lock nodes expansion by looking for outer locks of the same object.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Change yank_if_dead() to recursive method to remove all dead inputs.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Setup thread register in MacroAssembler::incr_allocated_bytes() on x64
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add rdtsc detection and inline generation.
Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes
Contributed-by: karen.kinnear@oracle.com

Summary: Distance is too large for one short branch in string_indexofC8().
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: adds store store barrier after initialization of header and body of objects.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: GC crash for explicit stack overflow checks after a C2I transition.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never
Contributed-by: yang02.wang@sap.com, bertrand.delsart@oracle.com

Summary: Disable verify_heapbase on sparc if TraceBytecodes because the latter uses r12 as a temp register
Reviewed-by: coleenp, phh
Contributed-by: NVolker Simonis <volker.simonis@gmail.com>

Summary: Moved sizeof(klassOopDesc), changed the return type to ByteSize and removed the _in_bytes suffix.
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart, coleenp, jrose

Summary: Use 3-operands SIMD instructions in C2 generated code for machines with AVX.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Added support for AVX extension to the x86 instruction set.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Change instanceKlass::_init_state field to u1 type.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, coleenp, dholmes, phh, never
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Summary: Enable tiered compilation on server VM by default
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: allow reg_class definition as a function.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: never, kvn
Contributed-by: NAndreas Schoesser <andreas.schoesser@sap.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart

Summary: Avoid CMove in a loop if possible. May generate CMove if it could be moved outside a loop.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Summary: replace the call to memmove by a simple copy loop
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, never
Contributed-by: axel.siebenborn@sap.com, volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: Instruction countTrailingZerosL() should use iRegIsafe dst register since it is used in long arithmetic.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Integrate bsd-port/hotspot and macosx-port/hotspot changes as of 2011.09.29.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, never, phh
Contributed-by: NChristos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Kurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Alexander Strange &lt;astrange@apple.com&gt;, Mike Swingler &lt;swingler@apple.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Victor Hernandez &lt;vhernandez@apple.com&gt;, Pratik Solanki <psolanki@apple.com>

Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart

Summary: Don't zero new typeArray during runtime call if the allocation is followed by arraycopy into it.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

Summary: Turn on aastore profiling
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

7110489: C1: 64-bit tiered with ForceUnreachable: assert(reachable(src)) failed: Address should be reachable
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: changes necessary for some JSR292 ports
Reviewed-by: jrose, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: twisti, roland, kvn, iveresov