Summary: Added better debug-printing support and enhanced LogCompilation tool
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, dholmes

Summary: Add missing C->failing() check after Connection graph construction.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: Check for safepoint and block during EA Connection graph construction.
Reviewed-by: roland, vlivanov, shade

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Add new timeout checks to EA.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, drchase

Summary: Add C2 SHA intrinsics on SPARC
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: james.cheng@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add new C2 intrinsic for BigInteger::multiplyToLen() on x86 in 64-bit VM.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: use correct set_escape_state() method.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iignatyev
Contributed-by: NRichard Reingruber <richard.reingruber@sap.com>

Summary: Make object non-scalarizable if it has field with multiple bases one of which is null
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: add intrinsics using new instruction to interpreter, C1, C2, for suitable x86; add test
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>

Summary: Corrected escape state for the result of boxing method. Added force inlining executed boxing methods.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Add NULL checks and asserts for Type::make_ptr() returned value.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Resurrected autobox elimination code and enabled part of it by default.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

8015441: runThese crashed with assert(opcode == Op_ConP || opcode == Op_ThreadLocal || opcode == Op_CastX2P ..) failed: sanity
Summary: Relax the assert to accept any raw ptr types.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: Use SSE4.2 and AVX2 instructions for encodeArray intrinsic.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: keep an (almost) accurate running count of the reachable (live) flow graph nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose, vlivanov

Summary: Added missed type check of initializing store in ConnectionGraph::find_init_values().
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti, vlivanov

Summary: In case of time or iterations limit reached C2 stops EA and continue compilation without EA as it does in product VM already.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Use new x86 AES instructions for AESCrypt.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, roland
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Added new FormatBufferResource class to use thread's resource area for error message buffer.
Reviewed-by: twisti

6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: NJohn Rose &lt;john.r.rose@oracle.com&gt;, Christian Thalinger &lt;christian.thalinger@oracle.com&gt;, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

Summary: use shorter instruction sequences for atomic add and atomic exchange when possible.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Skip only G1 cases and explicitly set global escape state in unsafe cases.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: rewrote Connection graph construction code in EA to reduce time spent there.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Take into account only stores captured by Initialize node. Added missing check for Top input in value() methods.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Removed code which tried to create edges from fields of destination objects of arraycopy to fields of source objects. Added 30 sec time limit for EA graph construction.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Nested locks elimination done before lock nodes expansion by looking for outer locks of the same object.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: adds store store barrier after initialization of header and body of objects.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Fixed several EA issues with Connection Graph construction.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Split adjust_escape_state() method into two methods to find initializing stores.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: NULL pointers do not escape but escape state propagation may change it leading to worser results.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Try to eliminate allocations and related locks immediately after escape analysis.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: optimize pointers compare using EA information.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Mark all associated (same box and obj) lock and unlock nodes for elimination if some of them marked already.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never

Summary: memory slices should be always created for non-static fields after allocation
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Swap checks: check for regular memory slice first and keep input phi.
Reviewed-by: never