Summary: use 256bit vpxor,vptest instructions in String.compareTo() and equals() intrinsics.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NMorris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>

Summary: Use YMM registers in arraycopy and array_fill stubs.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: use 'rep stosb' instead of 'rep stosq' when fast-string operations are available.
Reviewed-by: twisti, roland

Summary: post parse inlining driven by number of live nodes.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NMorris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>

Summary: Fix java names for getAndSet intrinsics
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso, kvn, ctornqvi
Contributed-by: erik.helin@oracle.com

Summary: Added missing exception path for multidimensional array allocation and use Throwable type instead of OutOfMemoryError for allocation's exception.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Enable AES intrinsics on non-AVX cpus, group together aes instructions in crypto stubs.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NRichard Reingruber <richard.reingruber@sap.com>

Summary: Add three memory-ordering intrinsics to the sun.misc.Unsafe class.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NMorris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>

Summary: Make the load of TLS._osthread._interrupted flag in Thread.isInterrupted(Z)Z intrinsic effectively volatile.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: collection of small changes to prepare for incremental inlining.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

8005108: NPG: MetaspaceAux::used_in_bytes(), capacity_in_bytes() and reserved_in_bytes() return inconsistent numbers
Summary: Reverted the changes to these functions from JDK-8000662
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NBharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>

Summary: NMT has to check option's value also to determine which command to execute
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, hseigel

8004845: Catch incorrect usage of new and delete during compile time for value objects and stack objects
Summary: Makes the "new" and "delete" operator of _ValueObj and StackObj private
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: erik.helin@oracle.com

Summary: Mapping of aligned memory needs to be MT safe. Also reviewed by: vitalyd@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: Phase 1 is removing '_g' support from the Makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, sspitsyn, coleenp, tbell
Contributed-by: ron.durbin@oracle.com

Summary: renamed to hash_code
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, brutisso
Contributed-by: erik.helin@oracle.com