Summary: Supply a new flag -XX:+AssumeMP to workaround the problem. With the flag is turned on, assume VM run on MP platform so is_MP() will return true that sync calls will not skip away.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, dcubed, jmasa
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Put UseSplitVerifier option on the deprecated list.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kmo, acorn

Summary: Some parts of the G1 heap can only be walked during a safepoint. Skip verifying these parts of the heap when verifying during JVM startup.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Ergonomics now also takes available virtual memory into account when deciding for a heap size. The helper method to determine the maximum allocatable memory block now uses the appropriate OS specific calls to retrieve available virtual memory for the java process. In 32 bit environments this method now also searches for the maximum actually reservable amount of memory. Merge previously separate implementations for Linux/BSD/Solaris into a single method.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tamao

Summary: Keep a counter of how many times we were stalled by the GC locker, add a diagnostic flag which sets the limit.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ehelin, johnc

Summary: Remove redundant checks in testMalloc and add assert.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Remove the related assertions becasue they do not hold here.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

8009777: NMT: add new NMT dcmd to control auto shutdown option
Summary: Added diagnostic VM option and DCmd command to allow NMT stay alive under stress situation
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: In 64bit VM move CDS archive address to 32G on all platforms using new flag SharedBaseAddress.  In 32bit VM set CDS archive address to 3Gb on Linux and let other OSs pick the address.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed, zgu, hseigel

7123945: runtime/6878713/Test6878713.sh require about 2G of native memory, swaps and times out
Summary: Add new diagnostic option -XX:MallocMaxTestWords=NNN and fix Test6878713.sh.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp, dholmes, iklam

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

Reviewed-by: dlong, alanb, mduigou

Summary: add cases for _MSC_VER == 1600 and 1700
Reviewed-by: zgu

Summary: Take the initial heap size into account when checking the heap size for compressed oops
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kvn, hseigel, ctornqvi

Summary: The minimal JVM is printing a warning message for default settings when it should quitely ignore them.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Zero metadata in constructors, not in allocation (and some in constructors)
Reviewed-by: jmasa, sspitsyn

Summary: Deprecate MaxGCMinorPauseMillis and emit a warning if set by users
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

8008310: Some adjustments needed to minimal VM warnings and errors for unsupported command line options
Summary: Changes to arguments.cpp for warnings vs. errors.  Changes for CDS arguments.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, cjplummer

7107135: Stack guard pages are no more protected after loading a shared library with executable stack
Summary: Detect the execstack attribute of the loaded library and attempt to fix the stack guard using Safepoint op.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Summary: fix null pointer
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Make deadlock detection a little more robust in the case of being unable to find the JavaThread associated with an object lock.
Reviewed-by: sla, acorn

Summary: Modify WhiteBoxAPI to use interface classes from test/testlibrary instead, add ClassFileInstaller to resolve the boot class path issue
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, dsamersoff, coleenp, kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael

Summary: Fix warning messages when selected garbage collectors are excluded from the minimal jvm.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, cjplummer

8009761: Deoptimization on sparc doesn't set Llast_SP correctly in the interpreter frames it creates
Summary: deoptimization doesn't set up callee frames so that they restore caller frames correctly.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: allocate method annotations and attach to ConstMethod if present
Reviewed-by: dcubed, jiangli, sspitsyn, iklam

Summary: make sure all diagnostic and experimental flag kinds are checked in Flag::is_unlocked()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Set ReservedCodeCacheSize to (default value)*5 when TieredCompilation is on.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: jlong atomics isn't fully implemented om all 32-bit platforms so we try to avoid it. In this case the atomic add wasn't needed.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov
Contributed-by: NIgor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>

Summary: Flush any deferred card mark before a Java thread exits.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

8000968: NPG: UseCompressedKlassPointers asserts with ObjectAlignmentInBytes for > 32G CompressedOops
Summary: Pick a base that works for both CompressedOpps alignment and CompressedKlassPtrs alignment.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, ysr
Contributed-by: michal@frajt.eu

Summary: Change error messages for malformed options so the messages are more useful.
Reviewed-by: mikael, kvn, nloodin

Summary: When calculating live object regions, make sure that the alignment reserve, at the end of a TLAB, is excluded.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: removed unused IA64 specific code
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, dholmes

Summary: Removed depreciated kernel VM source code from hotspot VM
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: A warning message should be displayed if these options are used with the Minimal VM.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm, coleenp, stefank

Summary: Flags changed to be of uintx type
Reviewed-by: johnc, tamao