Reviewed-by: stuefe, stefank

Summary: Use the Events::log function to save redefined classes for output to the hs_err file
Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Before processing an element in the non-shared overflow buffer, try to push it into the local shared buffer to keep it full.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ehelin, sjohanss

Summary: Track initialized final field updates; disable constant folding if an update is detected.
Reviewed-by: vlivanov, dnsimon, forax, never, kvn, coleenp

Summary: Before processing an element in the non-shared overflow buffer, try to push it into the local shared buffer to keep it full.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ehelin, sjohanss

Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Summary: Thread id is now displayed as a hex number in error report.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, hseigel, stuefe

Reviewed-by: stuefe, dsamersoff, dcubed

Summary: Instead of 'fpclass', use cast float->int and double->long to check if value is +0.0f and +0.0d, respectively.
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis, dlong

Summary: Relax the guaranty for deleted methods
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Force all Solaris builds to use the same version of the DIR structure.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes
Contributed-by: cheleswer.sahu@oracle.com

Summary: Make appending found dead BasicHashtableEntrys to the free list atomic.
Reviewed-by: ehelin, shade

Summary: refactor close to remove references to closed ports
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis, sgehwolf, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dcubed, pnauman, ctornqvi, dholmes, mschoene
Contributed-by: gerald.thornbrugh@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dcubed, pnauman, ctornqvi, dholmes, mschoene
Contributed-by: gerald.thornbrugh@oracle.com

Summary: backout fix 8050808 which caused this regression and as requested.
Reviewed-by: hseigel

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, pnauman, ctornqvi, mschoene
Contributed-by: gerald.thornbrugh@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, bdelsart

8058345: Refactor native stack printing from vmError.cpp to debug.cpp to make it available in gdb as well
Summary: Also fix stack trace on x86 to enable walking of runtime stubs and native wrappers
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Replace G1CodeRootSet with a Hashtable based implementation, merge Code Root Migration phase into Code Root Scanning
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: gziemski, jmasa, brutisso, coleenp, tschatzl

Summary: Refactored emptyStack to a static member of NativeCallStack, which is accessible in minimal build.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Also reviewed by: boris.molodenkov@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: dcubed, minqi, mschoene
Contributed-by: yasuenag@gmail.com, bengt.rutisson@oracle.com

Summary: Cleaned up CDS to be more configurable, maintainable and extensible
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn, mchung

Summary: Enhance scalability of native memory tracking
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi, gtriantafill

8038268: VM Crashes in MetaspaceShared::generate_vtable_methods while creating CDS archive with limiting SharedMiscCodeSize
Summary: estimate the minimum required size for the misc code region and check if the specified misc code region size meets the minimum size requirement
Reviewed-by: jiangli, dholmes

8040121: Load variable through a pointer of an incompatible type in src/hotspot/src/share/vm: opto/output.cpp, runtime/sharedRuntimeTrans.cpp, utilities/globalDefinitions_visCPP.hpp
Summary: Fixed parfait warnings in globalDefinitions files by using a union for casts.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ehelin, brutisso, coleenp, roland, iveresov
Contributed-by: stefan.karlsson@oracle.com, mikael.gerdin@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: brutisso, ehelin

Summary: On AARCH64, make ElfFile::specifies_noexecstack() default to noexectstack
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong, aph

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: Only prune metaspace virtual spaces at safepoint so walking them is safe outside a safepoint.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, mgronlun, hseigel, stefank

Summary: To simplify the management of multiple code heaps in the code cache (see JDK-8015774), STL-style iterator capability is added to the GrowableArray. Further, custom iterators allow to only iterate over elements that satisfy a given predicate.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NTobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann@oracle.com>

Summary: propagate node replacements along control flow edges to callers
Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Summary: Fix events log string.
Reviewed-by: kvn, mschoene

Summary: check fr.sender_sp() in java thread instead of os::is_first_C_frame(&fr).
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp

Summary: Add length checks where necessary
Reviewed-by: coleenp, mschoene