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

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Eliminate constMethod's _method backpointer to methodOop, and move the _constant field from methodOop to constMethod.
Reviewed-by: roland, bdelsart, kamg

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

Summary: Allow a version of String class that doesn't have count and offset fields.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, never
Contributed-by: nils.eliasson@oracle.com

Summary: Breakpoint needs to do 64-bit compare for pointers on sparcv9
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never
Contributed-by: dean.long@oracle.com

Summary: Issue storestore barrier before constructor return if the constructor write final field.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, jrose, roland, coleenp
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

7147064: assert(allocates2(pc)) failed: not in CodeBuffer memory: 0xffffffff778d9d60 <= 0xffffffff778da69c
Summary: Increase size of deopt_blob and uncommon_trap_blob by size of stack bang code (SPARC).
Reviewed-by: azeemj, iveresov, never, phh

7147064: assert(allocates2(pc)) failed: not in CodeBuffer memory: 0xffffffff778d9d60 <= 0xffffffff778da69c
Summary: Increase size of deopt_blob and uncommon_trap_blob by size of stack bang code (SPARC).
Reviewed-by: azeemj, iveresov, never, phh

Summary: Increase StackShadowPages to accomodate the JDK changes to increase buffer size in socketWrite
Reviewed-by: acorn, phh, dcubed, kamg, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fix pure c2 builds
Reviewed-by: kvn, brutisso, never

Summary: improvements of TraceMethodHandles for JSR292
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Change InstanceKlass::_reference_type to u1 type.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Summary: improvements of frame_describe
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart, kvn, twisti

Summary: Fix exception handler stub size, enable guarantees to check for the correct deopt and exception stub sizes in the future
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti

Summary: fix for debug method frame::describe
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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

Summary: Change yank_if_dead() to recursive method to remove all dead inputs.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: GC crash for explicit stack overflow checks after a C2I transition.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never
Contributed-by: yang02.wang@sap.com, bertrand.delsart@oracle.com

Summary: Moved sizeof(klassOopDesc), changed the return type to ByteSize and removed the _in_bytes suffix.
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart, coleenp, jrose

Summary: Change instanceKlass::_init_state field to u1 type.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, coleenp, dholmes, phh, never
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Summary: Enable tiered compilation on server VM by default
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: allow reg_class definition as a function.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart

Summary: Avoid CMove in a loop if possible. May generate CMove if it could be moved outside a loop.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: replace the call to memmove by a simple copy loop
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, never
Contributed-by: axel.siebenborn@sap.com, volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: Instruction countTrailingZerosL() should use iRegIsafe dst register since it is used in long arithmetic.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Don't zero new typeArray during runtime call if the allocation is followed by arraycopy into it.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Turn on aastore profiling
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp