Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Use conservative assumptions of required alignment for the various garbage collector components into account when determining the maximum heap size that supports compressed oops. Using this conservative value avoids several circular dependencies in the calculation.
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes

Summary: Correctly calculate the initialization value for the shift between object start and bitmap bit in the G1 mark bitmaps.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, kvn, twisti

8023381: VM fails to initialize in runtime/CDSCompressedKPtrs/XShareAuto.java runtime/SharedArchiveFile/CdsSameObjectAlignment.java
Summary: Improve handling when CDS archive cannot be mapped
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, mseledtsov

Summary: don't re-evaluate stack bounds for main thread before install guard page
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, dlong

Reviewed-by: dcubed, mchung, hseigel

Summary: Tests checks an assertion dealing with the number of args passed in registers
Reviewed-by: mseledtsov, kvn

Summary: Define profile-based test groups.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, mchung

Summary: removed offending EXCEPTION_MARK calls and code cleanup
Reviewed-by: dholmes, iklam, coleenp, mseledtsov

Summary: Add the relevant test and proofread the VM messages as well
Reviewed-by: coleenp, mseledtsov, dcubed

8022595: JSR292: deadlock during class loading of MethodHandles, MethodHandleImpl & MethodHandleNatives
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Make tests query a new WhiteBox API to see if NMT detail is supported, and behave properly if it is not supported.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

8023393: Need to suppress info message if -Xcheck:jni used with libjsig.dylab on Mac OSX
Summary: Rewrite 7051189 test in Java, port Linux fix for 7051189 to Mac OSX.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, mseledtsov, ccheung

Summary: set control edge for previous value load in G1 pre-barrier
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: minqi, sla

8016729: ObjectAlignmentInBytes=16 now forces the use of heap based compressed oops
8005933: The -Xshare:auto option is ignored for -server
Summary: Move klass metaspace above the heap and support CDS with compressed klass ptrs.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, mgerdin, tschatzl, stefank

Summary: remove crufty '_g' support from HS tests
Reviewed-by: dcubed, sla

Summary: ActiveMethodOopsCache was used to keep track of old versions of some methods that are cached in Universe but is buggy with permgen removal and not needed anymore
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, mseledtsov

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgerdin, hseigel

Summary: 'compileonly' directive has beens added to each 'compiler/whitebox' test
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: If java test return none zero, the value will be override by 'if' statement, the exit value will always '0' and pass. Fix by recording the result in a variable.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, iklam
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, kvn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, hseigel, jmasa, ctornqvi

8022029: GetUnsafeObjectG1PreBarrier fails on 32-bit with: Unrecognized VM option 'ObjectAlignmentInBytes=32'
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Added a x86 64-bit Solaris shared library and rewrote test in Java
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ctornqvi

Summary: test/runtime/7196045 times out
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mseledtsov

Summary: Removed part of the test that required the VM to start up with -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=2048m
Reviewed-by: kvn, rbackman

Summary: runtime/8000968/Test8000968.sh has incorrect check for proper config
Reviewed-by: coleenp, mseledtsov, sspitsyn, hseigel

Summary: OutputAnalyzer.shouldHaveExitValue() should print stdout/stderr output
Reviewed-by: kvn, ctornqvi, dholmes

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa, kvn, tamao

Summary: Added checking for gcc and simplified the sig_handler() in the test case
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp, minqi, dlong

Summary: C1's GetUnsafeObject G1 pre-barrier uses the wrong type to read the klass pointer.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

8020123: Test gc/g1/TestPrintRegionRememberedSetInfo.java fails with "test result: Error. No action after @build"
Summary: Remove the @build tag and replace it by a @run tag so that the test gets executed
Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

Summary: Added -DLINUX to the gcc command and improved the .sh script
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, minqi

Summary: Added (sig < MAXSIGNUM) check in jsig.c
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: remove StubRoutines::x86::_mxcsr_std and use StubRoutines::_mxcsr_std
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: generate one "fat" membar instead of set of barriers for volitile store
Reviewed-by: roland