Summary: Restrict reference of interface methods by invokestatic and invokespecial to classfile version 52 or later.
Reviewed-by: kvn, hseigel

Summary: rename/remove local variables, re-arrange instance_size calculation, more comments.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Move the missing test to appropriate location.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

Summary: Added info for the string/symbol objects and the hash entries
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rbackman

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Remove dead code containing last call to scanf with no string length specifier
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Treat the empty string as the default value tag
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8014765: VM exits if MaxTenuringThreshold is set below the default InitialTenuringThreshold, and InitialTenuringThreshold is not set
Summary: The VM exits when the condition in the subject line applies. The fix sets InitialTenuringThreshold to MaxTenuringThreshold if it is larger than MaxTenuringThreshold and InitialTenuringThreshold has not been set (is default).
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, brutisso, johnc

Summary: Fix instance_size miscalculation.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

8010738: G1: Output for full GCs with +PrintGCDetails should contain perm gen size/meta data change info
Summary: Include metaspace information (used, allocated, reserved) in the PrintGCDetails output for full GCs.
Reviewed-by: poonam, jmasa, brutisso

Summary: Corrected the class name
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi, hseigel
Contributed-by: NMikhailo Seledtsov <mikhailo.seledtsov@oracle.com>

Summary: Re-wrote test in Java in addition to fixing the Copyright notice. Also reviewed by leonid.mesnik@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi
Contributed-by: NMikhailo Seledtsov <mikhailo.seledtsov@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: sla, poonam

Summary: Improve the output of G1PrintRegionLivenessInfo by adding a per-region remembered set size information column
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, johnc

Summary: Mismatch in the card number calculation between next and previous committed sizes of the card counts table.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: kvn

8007763: Refactoring: split up compute_generation_free_space() into two functions for class PSAdaptiveSizePolicy
Summary: split up compute_generation_free_space() into two functions: compute_eden_space_size() + compute_old_gen_free_space(), each of which (if needed) can be reused without executing an overhead of the other.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Setting some public integer options to specific values causes crashes or undefined GC behavior. This patchset adds the necessary argument checking for these options.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: The fix of 8010992, disable use of global operator new and new[] which caused failure on some tests. This takes two of the bugs also add ALLOW_OPERATOR_NEW_USAGE to prevent crash for third party code calling operator new of jvm on certain platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

8014489: tests/gc/arguments/Test(Serial|CMS|Parallel|G1)HeapSizeFlags jtreg tests invoke wrong class
Summary: Some jtreg tests reference unknown classes in the @run and @build lines. This change fixes them.
Reviewed-by: stefank, ehelin

Summary: Added the -XX:SharedArchiveFile option.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung, acorn, dcubed, zgu

Summary: Remove obsolete debugging code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: Corrected escape state for the result of boxing method. Added force inlining executed boxing methods.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Need to walk array class vtables replacing old methods too if j.l.o redefined
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, ctornqvi