8042660: vm/mlvm/anonloader/stress/byteMutation failed with: assert(index >=0 && index < _length) failed: symbol index overflow
Summary: Detect zero length signatures and throw ClassFormatError before bad dereference occurs
Reviewed-by: hseigel

Reviewed-by: jbachorik, egahlin, ykantser, mtobiass

Reviewed-by: pliden, tschatzl

Summary: Need to specify /othervm in annotation section if jvm command line option -Xbatch is specified.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Correct backport of 8159244.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fixed string comparison and indentation
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Adjust instruction generation.
Reviewed-by: goetz
Contributed-by: gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com, horii@jp.ibm.com

Summary: MetadataOnStackMark must be done before calling free_deallocate_list().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Guarantee is to ensure classloader is a valid oop will help catch the errors at an early stage rather than crashing the JVM later on in the GC
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Emit release barrier after String creation to prevent partially initialized object from escaping.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8044575: testlibrary_tests/whitebox/vm_flags/UintxTest.java failed: assert(!res || TypeEntriesAtCall::arguments_profiling_enabled()) failed: no profiling of arguments
Reviewed-by: kvn, jmasa

Summary: VisualVM's memory profiling with allocation stacktraces crashes JVM in Method::checked_resolve_jmethod_id()
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn, jiangli

Reviewed-by: pliden, kevinw

Summary: Updated Free Software Foundation's mailing address in LICENSE
Reviewed-by: rriggs, shade

Summary: C2 treats x^2 as a special case and computes x * x while the interpreter and c1 don't have special case code for X^2.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

8017629: G1: UseSHM in combination with a G1HeapRegionSize > os::large_page_size() falls back to use small pages
Reviewed-by: pliden, sjohanss, stuefe

8077276: allocating heap with UseLargePages and HugeTLBFS may trash existing memory mappings (linux)
Summary: Remove MAP_FIXED from initial mapping allocation; add tests
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

Summary: Typo error referring new_acitve_workers is corrected as new_active_workers
Reviewed-by: jmasa, drwhite
Contributed-by: fairoz.matte@oracle.com

8036630: Null ProtectionDomain in JVM can cause NPE because principals field is not initialized to an empty array
Summary: Call ProtectionDomain constructor instead of making all fields null.
Reviewed-by: fparain, zgu

Summary: Complete support for 8132051 on Zero and fix failure on 64-bit big-endian systems
Reviewed-by: andrew, chrisphi, coleenp

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes
Contributed-by: james.cheng@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Check for failed expansion of stub section in code buffer and bailout.
Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

8055530: assert(_exits.control()->is_top() || !_gvn.type(ret_phi)->empty()) failed: return value must be well defined
Summary: concurrent class loading causes return phi to become top
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, sspitsyn, sla