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

Reviewed-by: kvn, 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>

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: 1) Fixed MemTrackWorker::generations_in_used() calculation 2) Ensured NMT not to leak memory recorders after shutdown 3) Used ThreadCritical to block safepoint safe threads
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, dholmes, kvn

Reviewed-by: kamg

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Changed _query_lock to heap object from static object. Also fixed _query_lock and snapshot lock ranks, so they can participate deadlock detection.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, kvn

Summary: Assertion on stack base is not necessary
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, kvn

Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp, ctornqvi

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

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

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: Also reviewed by: vitalyd@gmail.com. Move the timing out of G1CollectorPolicy into the G1GCPhaseTimes class
Reviewed-by: johnc

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dholmes, coleenp, kamg

Summary: Need to copy the inlined exception table to the new constMethodOop during method rewriting.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

7180914: Compilation warning after: 7172967: Eliminate the constMethod's _method backpointer to the methodOop.
Summary: Use read_pointer(J...) to access from 'constMethod' base in name_for_methodOop(), libjvm_db.c.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Made new_hash() overloaded rather than a virtual function so SA code doesn't need to be changed.
Reviewed-by: kvn, acorn, dholmes, fparain