Summary: Under error conditions, always return -1 and perform null termination regardless of the behavior of underlying vsnprintf() implementation.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, cjplummer

Summary: Add support for AES intrinsics on PPC64.
Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr, simonis, zmajo
Contributed-by: NHiroshi H Horii <horii@jp.ibm.com>

Summary: Method::deallocate_contents() should clear 'this' from list of Methods in JNIMethodBlock, when class is unloaded.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

8042660: vm/mlvm/anonloader/stress/byteMutation failed with: assert(index >=0 && index < _length) failed: symbol index overflow
Summary: Detect zero length signatures and throw ClassFormatError before bad dereference occurs
Reviewed-by: hseigel

Reviewed-by: pliden, tschatzl

Summary: Correct backport of 8159244.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: MetadataOnStackMark must be done before calling free_deallocate_list().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Typo error referring new_acitve_workers is corrected as new_active_workers
Reviewed-by: jmasa, drwhite
Contributed-by: fairoz.matte@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: acorn, jdn
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: iklam, acorn, mschoene

Summary: Guarantee is to ensure classloader is a valid oop will help catch the errors at an early stage rather than crashing the JVM later on in the GC
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Emit release barrier after String creation to prevent partially initialized object from escaping.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

8055530: assert(_exits.control()->is_top() || !_gvn.type(ret_phi)->empty()) failed: return value must be well defined
Summary: concurrent class loading causes return phi to become top
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, sspitsyn, sla

Reviewed-by: hseigel

8076995: gc/ergonomics/TestDynamicNumberOfGCThreads.java failed with java.lang.RuntimeException: 'new_active_workers' missing from stdout/stderr
Reviewed-by: jmasa, drwhite

Reviewed-by: jmasa, kbarrett, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel, mschoene

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: kbarrett, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Adding missing check for valid oop.
Reviewed-by: dcubed
Contributed-by: NShafi Ahmad <shafi.s.ahmad@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr

Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr

Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: stuefe, coleenp, roland

8149367: PolicyQualifierInfo/index_Ctor JCk test fails with IOE: Invalid encoding for PolicyQualifierInfo
Summary: fix incorrect code
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, kevinw, ahgross

8149367: PolicyQualifierInfo/index_Ctor JCk test fails with IOE: Invalid encoding for PolicyQualifierInfo
Summary: fix incorrect code
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, kevinw, ahgross

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, coleenp, dcubed

Summary: Add intrinsics for BigInteger squareToLen and mulAdd methods.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Arguments coming from native should be converted to 0=false, 1-255=true
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Arguments coming from native should be converted to 0=false, 1-255=true
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Implement remembered sets verification for G1 with option VerifyRememberedSets
Reviewed-by: jmasa, mgerdin

Summary: Emit CastII to make narrow ConvI2L dependent on the corresponding range check.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Do not make reused PRTs available to other threads before the bitmap of the PRT has been cleared.
Reviewed-by: tbenson, mgerdin, brutisso
Contributed-by: NPoonam Bajaj &lt;poonam.bajaj@oracle.com&gt;, Thomas Schatzl <thomas.schatzl@oracle.com>