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: kvn, vlivanov

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

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

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

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman

Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael

Summary: use expensive node logic for other more math nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: This is a fix of an initialization mistake for class AdaptiveSizePolicy.
Reviewed-by: jmasa
Contributed-by: NTao Mao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com

Summary: Fix warning messages when selected garbage collectors are excluded from the minimal jvm.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, cjplummer

Summary: cmsPermGen.cpp, psPermGen.cpp have been removed.  yieldWorkingGroup.cpp typo is fixed. immutableSpace.cpp was in the list twice.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

Summary: Reverse hs_err file permission back to 0666, as early push was premature
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, dcubed, acorn

Summary: Add support for expensive nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: moved MacroAssembler into separate file
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, dlong

Summary: allocate method annotations and attach to ConstMethod if present
Reviewed-by: dcubed, jiangli, sspitsyn, iklam

Summary: moved MacroAssembler into separate file
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, dlong

Summary: make sure all diagnostic and experimental flag kinds are checked in Flag::is_unlocked()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add array access range check
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Set ReservedCodeCacheSize to (default value)*5 when TieredCompilation is on.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Added missing UseSSE42 check. Also added missing avx2 assert for vpermq instruction.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: Removed is_kernel_jvm from jvm_version_info as Kernel VM has been deprecated
Reviewed-by: mchung, coleenp

Summary: Enforce more restricted hs_file permission
Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed, dsamersoff

8006423: SA: NullPointerException in sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.bsd.BsdThread.getContext(BsdThread.java:67)
Summary: Do not rely on mach thread port names to identify threads from SA
Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi, rbackman

Summary: Add/refine new tracing support using -XX:TraceRedefineClasses=16384.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, sspitsyn

Summary: check ndimensions before accessing length[i] element
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: Add timer units to concurrent marking phases where the units were missing.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ysr

Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc
Contributed-by: vladimir.kempik@oracle.com