Summary: Add CriticalPriority == MaxPriority+1 and enable scheduling class as well as thread priority to change on Solaris.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

Summary: Some minor profile based optimizations. Reduce the number of branches and branch mispredicts by removing some virtual calls, through closure specalization, and refactoring some conditional statements.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp

Summary: Make sure that CompilationPolicy::event() doesn't throw exceptions
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: improvements of TraceMethodHandles for JSR292
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: handle not loaded array klass in Parse::do_checkcast().
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: disable UseAdaptiveSizePolicy with the CMS and ParNew
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

Summary: Re-enable survivors during the initial-mark pause. Afterwards, the concurrent marking threads have to scan them and mark everything reachable from them. The next GC will have to wait for the survivors to be scanned.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc

Summary: Added dcmd to unlock or check status of UnlockingCommercialFeature flag
Reviewed-by: fparain, rottenha

Summary: Block::schedule_local() may write beyond end of ready_cnt array
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Use !higher_equal() check to skip top and values which fit.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Change the value of Tier3BackEdgeThreshold from 7000 to 60000
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Fix gamma launcher on Mac OS X and reconcile test_gamma script on Unix platforms
Reviewed-by: dcubed, ohair, jcoomes, dholmes, ksrini
Contributed-by: james.melvin@oracle.com

Summary: Make GCStatInfo a resource object
Reviewed-by: phh, coleenp

Summary: Modify jprt.properties to run OSX builds and tests.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kamg, ohair, dholmes
Contributed-by: james.melvin@oracle.com

Summary: improvements of frame_describe
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: reset jvmtithreadstate exception state after frame pop and forceearlyreturn processed
Reviewed-by: minqi, dholmes, dlong
Contributed-by: bill.pittore@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Pass correct type to branch in LIRGenerator::do_SwitchRanges()
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Add Value() methods to short and byte Load nodes to truncate constants which does not fit.
Reviewed-by: jrose