Reviewed-by: never, ysr, acorn

Summary: remove over locking by VMThread on "is thread suspended?" check
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, andrew

Summary: Fix races in jmethodID cache and JNI itable index cache.
Reviewed-by: ikrylov, acorn

Reviewed-by: kamg, dcubed

Summary: Druing heap shrinking, check for emptiness of a region before modifying its ZF status.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: The build fails if the bootstrap JDK defaults to <1.5
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Removed second CheckCastPP and use MembarCPUOrder after arraycopy to cloned object.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Fix CDS/CMS option overrides related to iCMS option CMSIncrementalMode; explicate overrides to error stream.
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Look through chained AddP nodes in get_addp_base().
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: Add missing test option -XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Check that a klass is not NULL before the is_loaded() call.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: In load_array_length() cast array's type to TypeOopPtr when calling make_ideal_length() method.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Store the return value of fwrite and check it matches the size of the array.
Reviewed-by: twisti, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kamg, phh

Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes

Summary: Add an explicit check for TypeProfileWidth == 0 in record_klass_in_profile_helper() functions.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: schedule the superword loads based on dependence constraints
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: cfang, never

Summary: Add missing initialization of cache size.
Reviewed-by: tbell

Summary: Fix do_null_check to check for unloaded klass for all oop pointers.
Reviewed-by: never, cfang

Reviewed-by: xlu

Summary: ldc seems to load an empty String and that leads to an assert on offset < length, which are both zero.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: enable compressed oops by default
Reviewed-by: never, ysr

Summary: Update the Major and build numbers for HS17 fork
Reviewed-by: jcoomes