Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add intrinsics using new instruction to interpreter, C1, C2, for suitable x86; add test
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>

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

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, ahgross

Summary: use expensive node logic for other more math nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add support for expensive nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use SSE4.2 and AVX2 instructions for encodeArray intrinsic.
Reviewed-by: roland

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, johnc

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Use new x86 AES instructions for AESCrypt.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, roland
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

8000623: tools/javac/Diagnostics/6769027/T6769027.java crashes in PSPromotionManager::copy_to_survivor_space
Summary: Fix type of method pointer load from vtable.
Reviewed-by: twisti, johnc, roland

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

Summary: Deleted placement new operator of Node - node(size_t, Compile *, int).
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

Summary: In C2 add software membar after load from Reference.referent field to prevent commoning of loads across safepoint since GC can change its value. In C1 always generate Reference.get() intrinsic.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti, dholmes, johnc

6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: NJohn Rose &lt;john.r.rose@oracle.com&gt;, Christian Thalinger &lt;christian.thalinger@oracle.com&gt;, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

Summary: When c2 intrinsifies pow/exp, it should never inline the java implementations.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Arrays.copyOfRange(original, from, to) with from > original.length tries to do a copy with a negative length.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Summary: use x87 instructions to implement exp() and pow() in interpreter/c1/c2.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti

Summary: Allow a version of String class that doesn't have count and offset fields.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp

Summary: use shorter instruction sequences for atomic add and atomic exchange when possible.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, never
Contributed-by: nils.eliasson@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: sla, never

Summary: Allow fallback to non-intrinsic inline case
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, never
Contributed-by: nils.eliasson@oracle.com

Summary: Adjust the assert and code in eliminate_card_mark() method for case when stored value is NULL.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never

Summary: Change InstanceKlass::_reference_type to u1 type.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Summary: Compare uncasted object nodes.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: adds store store barrier after initialization of header and body of objects.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn