Summary: Allow to execute vectorization and crc32 optimization on Atom. Enable UseFPUForSpilling by default on x86.
Reviewed-by: roland

8043029: Change 8037816 breaks HS build with older GCC versions which don't support diagnostic pragmas
8043164: Format warning in traceStream.hpp
Summary: Backport of main fix + two corrections, enables clang compilation, turns on format attributes, corrects/mutes warnings
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, iveresov, twisti

Summary: Added special case for x^y where y == 2
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Switch UseRTMXendForLockBusy flag ON by default and change code to retry RTM locking on lock busy condition by default.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: make compiled code bang the stack by the worst case size of the interpreter frame at deoptimization points.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Consolidated C2 x86 locking code in one place in macroAssembler_x86.cpp.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: Use RTM for inflated locks and stack locks.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti, roland, dcubed

Summary: Use non-relocatable code to load byte_map_base
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Uncommon trap blob did not bang all the stack shadow pages
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, iveresov, jrose

Summary: Allocate compressed class space at end of Java heap.  For small heap sizes, without CDS, save some space so compressed classes can have the same favorable compression as oops
Reviewed-by: stefank, hseigel, goetz

Summary: Add a StoreLoad barrier in the G1 post-barrier to fix a race with concurrent refinement. Also-reviewed-by: martin.doerr@sap.com
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tschatzl, brutisso, roland, kvn

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

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgerdin, hseigel

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

Summary: Execute vzeroupper instruction after JNI call and on exits in jit compiled code which use 256bit vectors.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: support for strings that have same life-time as code that uses them.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Added missing UseSSE42 check. Also added missing avx2 assert for vpermq instruction.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

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

Summary: use 256bit vpxor,vptest instructions in String.compareTo() and equals() intrinsics.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NMorris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>

Summary: Use YMM registers in arraycopy and array_fill stubs.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: use 'rep stosb' instead of 'rep stosq' when fast-string operations are available.
Reviewed-by: twisti, roland

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NMorris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>

Summary: Enable AES intrinsics on non-AVX cpus, group together aes instructions in crypto stubs.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: NBharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>

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: Remove buggy experimental option
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

Summary: Added asm encoding and mach nodes for vector arithmetic instructions on x86.
Reviewed-by: roland

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: renamed mach nodes which use scalar AVX instructions, added integer vectors shuffling instructions
Reviewed-by: twisti

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

Summary: increase precision on x86 for the steps of the computation of exp and pow.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: use x87 instructions to implement exp() and pow() in interpreter/c1/c2.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti