Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Deferred card marks are now flushed during the gc prologue. Parallel[Scavege,OldGC] and SerialGC no longer defer card marks generated by COMPILER2 as a result of ReduceInitialCardMarks. For these cases, introduced a diagnostic option to defer the card marks, only for the purposes of testing and diagnostics. CMS and G1 continue to defer card marks. Potential performance concern related to single-threaded flushing of deferred card marks in the gc prologue will be addressed in the future.
Reviewed-by: never, johnc

Summary: Loop predication implementation
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Put all inline-related switches into product mode, to allow tuning by dynamic language implementors.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Remove AND operation only if mask is equal to shift.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Check RootNode before check Loop in IfNode::up_one_dom().
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: kevin.brown@sun.com

Summary: Put generated MH adapter in InvokeDynamic/MethodHandle classes to be able to indentify them easily in the compiler.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Summary: Add missing check that value is used in memory expression in instructions with embedded load.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: C2 needs some additional optimizations to be able to handle MethodHandle invokes and invokedynamic instructions at the best performance.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: C2 implementation for invokedynamic support.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: EA incorrectly identifies escape state of an allocation passed as call argument.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: During the work for 6829187 we have fixed a number of basic bugs which are logically grouped with 6815692 and 6858164 but which must be reviewed and pushed separately.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Move instance store's memory users to corresponding memory slices when updating its memory edge.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add missing checks for MemBar nodes in EA.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Skip the secondary induction variable handling if it is dead
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Make OptimizeStringConcat a product VM option(contributed by never)
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Remove the assert.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Always call C->get_alias_index(phase->type(address)) during parsing.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Move DecodeN code outside the memory nodes only code.
Reviewed-by: never

6852078: HSX 14/16 in jdk 5.0: api/javax_management api/org_omg jck tests crashes or make tnameserv crash
Summary: Disable SuperWord optimization for unsafe read/write
Reviewed-by: kvn, phh

Summary: Implement scalar replaced objects debug info dump in SA.
Reviewed-by: twisti

6889757: G1: enable card mark elision for initializing writes from compiled code (ReduceInitialCardMarks)
Summary: Defer the (compiler-elided) card-mark upon a slow-path allocation until after the store  and before the next subsequent safepoint; G1 now answers yes to can_elide_tlab_write_barriers().
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kvn, never

Summary: PhiNode::Ideal() should return TOP for Phi node with no users.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Restore the original code: uint i = _hi_degree.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: To break spill ties choose bound live range over unbound to free register or one with smaller cost to spill.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Avoid ideal transformation ping-pong between AddPNode::Ideal() and CastX2PNode::Ideal().
Reviewed-by: cfang

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009 through Septermber
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Summary: Add missing instance_id meet.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Make a special root-list for those few nmethods which might contain non-perm oops.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, jmasa, ysr

Summary: Do nothing for AddP node which has type not related to the type of allocated object.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: filter out non-primitives before deciding whether two ops can be packed
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6875866: Intrinsic for String.indexOf() is broken on x86 with SSE4.2
Summary: Modify String intrinsic methods to pass char[] pointers instead of string oops.
Reviewed-by: never

6877254: Server vm crashes with no branches off of store slice" when run with CMS and UseSuperWord(default)
Summary: design StoreCMNode::Ideal to promote its oopStore input if the input is a MergeMem node
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Removed second CheckCastPP and use MembarCPUOrder after arraycopy to cloned object.
Reviewed-by: never