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: 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

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: jrose, kvn

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

Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: fix opto/library_call.cpp compilation errors
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp

Summary: Move the handelization of 'last' to a point before the GC might enter.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, coleenp

Summary: use unsigned comparison when checking for stack overflow
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: paul.nauman@oracle.com

Summary: If there are not enough native resources to create the ReferenceHandler or Finalizer Java threads, the VM will attempt to throw an OOME before the java.lang.Class class has been initialized. This can result in assertion failures and other crashes. Move the initialization of the java.lang.Class class to just before the initialization of the java.lang.ref.Finalizer class.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Add klass_holder() to return either mirror or class_loader depending on if the class is anonymous or not.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jrose

Summary: Move _max_locals and _size_of_parameters to ConstMethod for better sharing.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, minqi, jrose

Summary: fixed build failure for Zero target
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, johnc

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Add ClassLoaderData object for each anonymous class with metaspaces to allocate in.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, stefank

Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Add flushes to G1CollectedHeap::log_gc_footer() and TraceCPUTime destructor.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, azeemj, brutisso

Summary: Make metaspace::contains be lock free and used to see if something is in metaspace, also compare Method* with vtbl pointer.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, dcubed, jmasa

Summary: Fixed potential buffer overrun when giving empty option to NativeMemoryTracking commandline option
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, hseigel, kvn

Summary: Truncate the java version string and add a hash value if it is too long.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: remember the code section and switch back to the proper one when adding constants.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com