Summary: Stop adding old regions to collection set when the remaining reclaimable bytes reaches, or goes below, G1HeapWastePercent. Changes were also reviewed by Vitaly Davidovich <vitalyd@gmail.com>.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, ysr
Contributed-by: michal@frajt.eu

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Summary: if more than 100 seconds and more than 100 iterations have both passed, then exit is allowed.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, sla

Summary: GetAndSetP's MachNode should capture bottom type.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: InitializeNode::can_capture_store() must check that the captured store doesn't overwrite a memory location that is loaded before the store.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Zero Symbol* for constant pool strings to indicate pseudo_strings (objects that aren't strings).  Clean up JVM_CONSTANT_Object and unused flags.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, jrose

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgronlun

Summary: Added NULL pointer check for arena size record
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dholmes

Summary: report_vm_out_of_memory() should allow VMError.report_and_die() to handle multiple out of native memory errors.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, coleenp, acorn
Contributed-by: ron.durbin@oracle.com

Summary: Add regression test for crash seen in 8005875. Test is run with G1 and PGCT=0 and issues "jcmd <pid> Thread.print" against itself. Without the fix for 8005875 the test will crash.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Delete the questionable source code because it is for no-longer supported versions of Linux.
Reviewed-by: mikael, coleenp

Summary: Regression test for 8000311. Verifies that PLABStats works with zero parallel GC threads.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc
Contributed-by: NFilipp Zhinkin <filipp.zhinkin@oracle.com>

Summary: Modify WhiteBoxAPI to use interface classes from test/testlibrary instead, add ClassFileInstaller to resolve the boot class path issue
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, dsamersoff, coleenp, kvn

Summary: Adds code to HotSpot to properly update MethodParameter attributes' constant pool indexes when redefineClasses is called
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Save errno before processing signal, then restore it.
Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn

Summary: Added few checks and early bailout from Superword optimization to avoid such cases in a future.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti