Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Don't eliminate Integer::toString() call node during String concatenation optimization if it has several uses.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Add annotation extraction code to class file parser.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, kvn
Contributed-by: michael.haupt@oracle.com

Summary: Use uncast node equivalence checks in CmpUNode::sub.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Summary: Use class exactness as part of the condition for class compare optimization instead of assert.
Reviewed-by: twisti, roland

Summary: When c2 intrinsifies pow/exp, it should never inline the java implementations.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: check for and skip diamond shaped NULL check code for the result of toString()
Reviewed-by: twisti, roland

Summary: Cannot delete _buckets and HashtableEntries in shared space (CDS)
Reviewed-by: acorn, kvn, dlong, dcubed, kamg

Summary: Remove the per-thread expansion tables (PosParPRT) and associated expansion and compaction from the fine grain RSet entries. This code has been unused for a while.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso
Contributed-by: NThomas Schatzl <thomas.schatzl@jku.at>

Summary: Missing cast caused integer overflow
Reviewed-by: rbackman, dholmes

Summary: In fieldDescriptor::generic_signature() returns NULL immediately if the field has no generic signature.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, jcoomes

Summary: When looking for the same value in an other register check that all parts of that register has the same value.
Reviewed-by: johnc, twisti

Summary: disable vectorization of a memory access with more elements per vector than one which is used for alignment on sparc
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Summary: Arrays.copyOfRange(original, from, to) with from > original.length tries to do a copy with a negative length.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Increase vector size up to 256-bits for YMM AVX registers on x86.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, roland

Summary: Use an alternate version of hashing algorithm for symbol string tables and after a certain bucket size to improve performance
Reviewed-by: pbk, kamg, dlong, kvn, fparain

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: replace frequent C2 optimizer code patterns with new methods calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Summary: keep intermediate node alive till the end of the graph construction using dummy hook node trick
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Summary: Add missing check for EncodeP node in MemNode::Ideal_common_DU_postCCP() method.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: NChris Dennis <cdennis@terracottatech.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Eliminate constMethod's _method backpointer to methodOop, and move the _constant field from methodOop to constMethod.
Reviewed-by: roland, bdelsart, kamg

Reviewed-by: acorn, kamg, sspitsyn, dholmes

Summary: Class.cast which calls Class.isInstance is heavily used by the new JSR 292 implementation
Reviewed-by: roland
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <rednaxelafx@gmail.com>

Summary: Fixed raw pointer being used after potential safepoint/GC
Reviewed-by: acorn, fparain, dholmes

Summary: The scope of TraceMemoryManagerStats in G1CollectedHeap need to cover the call to G1MonitoringSupport::update_sizes()
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa

Reviewed-by: azeemj, jmasa

Summary: Add "using" keyword to import base class functions from FreeList<T> to fix template name lookup in gcc 4.7
Reviewed-by: brutisso, iveresov

Summary: Simplify code, remove unused code, remove ExitAfterGCNum
Reviewed-by: huntch, johnc

Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Summary: Place HandleMarks in the code that allocates handles for the pending list lock so that the handles are freed and multiple, unsuccessful, attempts to schedule a GC do not cause an OOM.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Removed LOG_G and LOG_K. Moved LOG_M to where it is being used.
Reviewed-by: twisti, johnc

Summary: Before the last thread to leave a JNI critical region was able to schedule a GCLocker Initiated GC, another thread was attempting an allocation and saw that the GCLocker region was no longer active and successfully scheduled a GC. Stall allocating threads until the GCLocker Initiated GC is performed and then retry the allocation.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, huntch

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: optimize this code pattern obj.getClass() == A.class.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kamg