Summary: Codebuffer can overflow on test with large number of calls
Reviewed-by: dholmes, collins

Summary: Track allocated bytes in Thread's, update on TLAB retirement and direct allocation in Eden and tenured, add JNI methods for ThreadMXBean.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, dholmes, ysr

Reviewed-by: phh, acorn, kamg

6583275: Hotspot crash in vm_perform_shutdown_actions due to uninitialized TLS during out of memory handling
Summary: Call get_thread_slow() in vm_perform_shutdown actions and add null check.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, jcoomes

Summary: enhance the error reporting mechanism to help user to fix the problem rather than making it look like a VM error.
Reviewed-by: kvn, kamg

Summary: Fix frame size computation
Reviewed-by: phh, kvn

Summary: reset NoHandleMark before going into VM.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: remove clear_scratch_buffer_blob and let init_scratch_buffer_blob free and allocate a new blob if required.
Reviewed-by: twisti

7009359: HS with -XX:+AggressiveOpts optimize new StringBuffer(null) so it does not throw NPE as expected
Summary: Bailout StringConcat optimization if null is passed to StringBuffer constructor.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: Fix CAS of longs on SPARC 32bit and cmove on SPARC 64bit.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Disabled the warning message during compiling.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Update the HS20 build number to 05
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Change ExportDirectoryTableImpl to return the 'Export RVA' field without modification. Read 'Base Of Data' field in optional header when PE32 format COFF file is read. Refine search for dbgeng.dll and dbghelp.dll. Other cleanups.
Reviewed-by: swamyv, poonam

Summary: Trap uncaught C++ exception on Windows and Solaris and generate hs_err report.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, bobv, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Add running specjvm98 and specjbb2005 with tiered compilation enabled with JPRT.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Remove unnecessary include of stdint.h in java_md.c
Reviewed-by: brutisso, kvn

Summary: bump CG_BUILD_ITER_LIMIT to 20
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: When bootstrap_method_ref in BootstrapMethods attribute points to a wrong CP entry (non-MethodHandle), JVM throws ClassFormatError with a message, where method index and class file name is garbage.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: Fill perfdata file with zeros to verify available disk space
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

Summary: Fire the gc-begin and gc-end probes for G1.
Reviewed-by: kamg, ysr, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Age bits need not enter the mark-word preservation calculus; also affected, in addition to CMS, per CR synopsis above, were ParNew (but not DefNew), ParallelScavenge and G1, albeit to a lesser degree than CMS.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, johnc

6579789: Internal error "c1_LinearScan.cpp:1429 Error: assert(false,"")" in debuggee with fastdebug VM
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Initialize the _is_alive_non_header field of G1's reference processor with an instance of the G1CMIsAliveClosure. This will stop adding reference objects with live referents to the discovered reference lists unnecessarily.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr, jwilhelm, brutisso

Reviewed-by: phh