Summary: The from card cache is a very frequently accessed data structure. It is essentially a 2d array of per-region values, one row of values for every GC thread. Pad and align the data structure to avoid false sharing.
Reviewed-by: stefank

Summary: Change the code cache remembered sets data structure from a GrowableArray to a chunked list of nmethods. This makes the data structure more amenable to parallelization, and decreases freeing time.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: tonyp, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, pliden

Summary: verify YMM registers after signal processing and set limit on vector's size.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, pliden

Summary: enable type speculation
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: check fr.sender_sp() in java thread instead of os::is_first_C_frame(&fr).
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp

8036092: [TESTBUG] compiler/uncommontrap/TestSpecTrapClassUnloading.java fails with: Unrecognized VM option 'UseTypeSpeculation'
Summary: Add -XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions to @main/othervm to make the test pass on Client VM
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

8035841: assert(dp_src->tag() == dp_dst->tag()) failed: should be same tags 1 != 0 at ciMethodData.cpp:90
Summary: concurrent update of traps with construction of ciMethodData
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: favor profile data coming from outer most method
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Add support for BMI1 instructions
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: added missing check for loop padding case.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: There is race condition between os::interrupt and os::is_interrupted on Windows. In JVM_Sleep(Thread.sleep), check if thread gets interrupted, it may see interrupted but not really interrupted so cause spurious waking up (early return from sleep). Fix by checking if interrupt event really gets set thus prevent false return. For intrinsic of _isInterrupted, on Windows, go fastpath only on bit not set.
Reviewed-by: acorn, kvn
Contributed-by: david.holmes@oracle.com, yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: roland, sla, dholmes

8027257: [TESTBUG] compiler/ciReplay/TestVM.sh : Error: Could not find or load main class negative_test
Reviewed-by: roland, kvn

8027124: [TESTBUG] NonTieredLevelsTest: java.lang.RuntimeException: private TestCase$Helper(java.lang.Object) must be osr_compiled
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

8025644: java/util/stream/test/org/openjdk/tests/java/util/stream/ToArrayOpTest.java fails with TestData$OfRef): failure java.lang.AssertionError: expected [true] but found [false]
Summary: In GraphKit::gen_checkcast() provide only exact superklass to GraphKit::maybe_cast_profiled_receiver()
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: cleaned up warnings in solaris specific os code.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, fparain, dcubed
Contributed-by: gerald.thornbrugh@oracle.com