Reviewed-by: ysr, pbk

Summary: Maintain a high water mark for the allocations in a space and mangle only up to that high water mark.
Reviewed-by: ysr, apetrusenko

Summary: Set instance_id to InstanceBot for InstPtr->meet(AryPtr) when types are not related.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: Fixed stack walking code in sparc to start frame walk from last_java_sp.
Reviewed-by: sgoldman

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Remove DecodeNNode::decode() and EncodePNode::encode() methods.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: For small (1-3 bits) left long shifts in 32-bits VM use sets of add+addc instructions instead of shld+shl on new AMD cpus.
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@amd.com

Summary: Change Hotspot version and build number for opening of HS14
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: verify the adr_type of a mach node was not changed
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

6714694: assertion in 64bit server vm (store->find_edge(load) != -1,"missing precedence edge") with COOPs
Summary: The method raise_LCA_above_marks() terminates LCA search early.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: ensure that GCTask threads release resource and handle memory
Reviewed-by: jmasa, chrisphi

Summary: Fixed the cast from char* to const char* and tried to use const char* as much as possible
Reviewed-by: never, kamg
Contributed-by: xiaobin.lu@sun.com

Summary: Add missed checks for TOP and missed checks for non-dominating cases
Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose, never

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn

Summary: Poke String.stringCacheEnabled during vm initialization
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Remove the preferred base address built with libjvm.so and unified the PIC approach on Solaris & Linux.
Reviewed-by: never, kamg
Contributed-by: xiaobin.lu@sun.com

Summary: Expand cardtable without committing over existing regions.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

Summary: Make FreeChunk read markword instead of LSB in _klass pointer to indicate that it's a FreeChunk for compressed oops.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Summary: The fix takes care of three issues that can create a hole less a minimal object in the lgrp chunk
Reviewed-by: ysr, apetrusenko