Reviewed-by: acorn, kamg, sspitsyn, dholmes

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

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Run SPECjbb in headless mode and enable SPECjbb runs on OSX
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes

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

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

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

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to schedule a GCLocker Initiated GC, another thread was attempting an allocation and saw that the GCLocker region was no longer active and successfully scheduled a GC.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

Summary: Work around 'gobjcopy' failure on Solaris X64 by adding a temporary tool that removes the SHF_ALLOC flag from "empty" section headers.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, acorn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kamg

7168280: Eliminate the generic signature index slot from field array for field without generic signature.
Summary: Only allocate the generic signature index slot in the field array for field with generic signature attribute.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dlong

Summary: Added test that checks humongous object allocation path also check the heap occupancy and initiate a marking cycle when / if needed.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jwilhelm

Summary: bad test for parity of y in pow(x,y) (c1, interpreter)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

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

Summary: Always disable ZIP_DEBUGINFO_FILES on Windows.
Reviewed-by: acorn

Summary: null checks in "compressed oops with base" mode may trigger a SIGBUS rather than a SIGSEGV.
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, dcubed, rbackman, kvn

Summary: Removed the assert in CompactibleFreeListSpace::check_free_list_consistency() since it was too strict. Simplified CompactibleFreeListSpace::set_cms_values() to reducde the need for asserts.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, stefank