Summary: Distinguish PPC, PPC64 and PPC32. PPC should guard code needed on any PPC system. PPC32 and PPC64 should guard code needed in a port for the ppc64 or ppc32 instruction set.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8014430: JRE crashes instead of stop compilation on full Code Cache. Internal Error (c1_Compiler.cpp:87)
Summary: Disable client compiler and switch to interpreter if there is not enough free space in the code cache.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Stop current iteration of loop opts if partial_peel() failed and it created node clones outside processed loop.
Reviewed-by: roland

Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, tschatzl

8014405: G1: PerRegionTable::fl_mem_size() calculates size of the free list using wrong element sizes
Summary: Instead of using a simple sizeof(), ask the PerRegionTable class about its size when iterating over the free list.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso

Summary: Add call to coalBirth() in CompactibleFreeListSpace::reset()
Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

Reviewed-by: ehelin, stefank

Summary: rename/remove local variables, re-arrange instance_size calculation, more comments.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Print helpful error message when VM aborts due to inability of allocating bit maps or card tables
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: Added info for the string/symbol objects and the hash entries
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rbackman

Summary: Remove dead code containing last call to scanf with no string length specifier
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl

Summary: Treat the empty string as the default value tag
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8014765: VM exits if MaxTenuringThreshold is set below the default InitialTenuringThreshold, and InitialTenuringThreshold is not set
Summary: The VM exits when the condition in the subject line applies. The fix sets InitialTenuringThreshold to MaxTenuringThreshold if it is larger than MaxTenuringThreshold and InitialTenuringThreshold has not been set (is default).
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, brutisso, johnc

Summary: Fix instance_size miscalculation.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

8010738: G1: Output for full GCs with +PrintGCDetails should contain perm gen size/meta data change info
Summary: Include metaspace information (used, allocated, reserved) in the PrintGCDetails output for full GCs.
Reviewed-by: poonam, jmasa, brutisso

Summary: Added command line parameter to define a threshold at which C1 compilation threshold for  is increased.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Improve the output of G1PrintRegionLivenessInfo by adding a per-region remembered set size information column
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, johnc

Summary: Mismatch in the card number calculation between next and previous committed sizes of the card counts table.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl

8007763: Refactoring: split up compute_generation_free_space() into two functions for class PSAdaptiveSizePolicy
Summary: split up compute_generation_free_space() into two functions: compute_eden_space_size() + compute_old_gen_free_space(), each of which (if needed) can be reused without executing an overhead of the other.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Setting some public integer options to specific values causes crashes or undefined GC behavior. This patchset adds the necessary argument checking for these options.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: The fix of 8010992, disable use of global operator new and new[] which caused failure on some tests. This takes two of the bugs also add ALLOW_OPERATOR_NEW_USAGE to prevent crash for third party code calling operator new of jvm on certain platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Added the -XX:SharedArchiveFile option.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung, acorn, dcubed, zgu

Summary: Remove obsolete debugging code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: Corrected escape state for the result of boxing method. Added force inlining executed boxing methods.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Need to walk array class vtables replacing old methods too if j.l.o redefined
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, ctornqvi

Reviewed-by: stefank, tschatzl

Summary: The patch for 8006088 misses regression tests after a merge error, this CR provides them.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, tamao, jmasa

Summary: With NPG, const KlassOop klass which is in fact a definition converted to Klass* const, which is not the original intention. The right usage is converting them to const Klass*.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Add NULL checks and asserts for Type::make_ptr() returned value.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Refactor G1's hot card cache and card counts table into their own files. Simplify the card counts table, including removing the encoding of the card index in each entry. The card counts table now has a 1:1 correspondence with the cards spanned by heap. Space for the card counts table is reserved from virtual memory (rather than C heap) during JVM startup and is committed/expanded when the heap is expanded. Changes were also reviewed-by Vitaly Davidovich.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, johnc, tschatzl

Summary: Constrain between zero and 8K
Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

8013032: CMS: assert(used() == used_after_gc && used_after_gc <= capacity()) failed: used: 0 used_after_gc: 292080 capacity: 1431699456
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, mgerdin, johnc

Summary: Resurrected autobox elimination code and enabled part of it by default.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: Set vtable index as appropriate for static interface methods and for interface methods invoked via invokespecial. To be improved in a later enhancement to CallInfo.
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Summary: Remove command line restriction.  It should just work.
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, sla

Summary: Walk the compiledIC relocation records to keep Method* from being deallocated.
Reviewed-by: dlong, kvn