Summary: when possible optimize out array bound checks, inserting predicates when needed.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: Nthomaswue <thomas.wuerthinger@oracle.com>

Summary: add guarantee() to insert_pre_post_loops()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to disqualify_method()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to get_instance_klass_for_declared_method_holder()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to set_to_interpreted()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() checks
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() checks to merge_state_into_bb()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: added missing parenthesis
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: add NULL checks for compiler name
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to DoScheduling()
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, stefank, rbackman, twisti
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

Summary: support for strings that have same life-time as code that uses them.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add null check to signal handler
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: add guarantee() to oop_result inlines
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add guarantee() to add_generation_memory_pool()
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add guarantee() to as_instance_type()
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add cases for _MSC_VER == 1600 and 1700
Reviewed-by: zgu

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

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

Summary: Corrected virtual memory recording and tagging code when large pages are used
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung

Summary: Deprecate MaxGCMinorPauseMillis and emit a warning if set by users
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: dump nodes and types in 8004640 case.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: ASSERT and other symbols used incorrectly with #if are supposed to be defined or not.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael

8008310: Some adjustments needed to minimal VM warnings and errors for unsupported command line options
Summary: Changes to arguments.cpp for warnings vs. errors.  Changes for CDS arguments.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, cjplummer

Summary: 7121140 may not correctly break the Allocate -> MemBarStoreStore link
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: fix null pointer
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Update the task local finger to the start of the next object when marking aborts, in order to avoid the redundant scanning of all 0's when the marking task restarts, if otherwise updating to the next word. In addition, reuse the routine nextObject() in routine iterate().
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

7107135: Stack guard pages are no more protected after loading a shared library with executable stack
Summary: Detect the execstack attribute of the loaded library and attempt to fix the stack guard using Safepoint op.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov