Summary: Update the HS17 build number to 03
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Modify operand passed to C1 pre-barrier to be the operand representing the address of the object field that is being stored.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions for JTreg tests (on a product build) to pass with DeoptimizeALot
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Avoid ideal transformation ping-pong between AddPNode::Ideal() and CastX2PNode::Ideal().
Reviewed-by: cfang

Summary: Update the HS17 build number to 02
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: never, ysr, acorn

Summary: After mechanically merging changes, some by-hand adjustments are needed.
Reviewed-by: ysr

Summary: Removed the unnecessary #ifdef's which were interfering with the build of the Zero-assembler port
Reviewed-by: ysr, jcoomes

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

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009 through Septermber
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

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

Summary: Add missing instance_id meet.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kamg, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Make a special root-list for those few nmethods which might contain non-perm oops.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, jmasa, ysr

Summary: Do nothing for AddP node which has type not related to the type of allocated object.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: filter out non-primitives before deciding whether two ops can be packed
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6875866: Intrinsic for String.indexOf() is broken on x86 with SSE4.2
Summary: Modify String intrinsic methods to pass char[] pointers instead of string oops.
Reviewed-by: never

6877254: Server vm crashes with no branches off of store slice" when run with CMS and UseSuperWord(default)
Summary: design StoreCMNode::Ideal to promote its oopStore input if the input is a MergeMem node
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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