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, neliasso, ctornqvi

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: remove unused parameter in dtrace macros
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: albert.noll@oracle.com

Summary: Do not treat static methods as miranda methods.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: Auto adjust number of stack guard pages on systems with large memory page size
Reviewed-by: bobv, coleenp

8013364: SA-JDI exceptions caused by lack of permissions on OSX should be more verbose about issue cause
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rbackman

Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, hseigel

Reviewed-by: sla, brutisso

Summary: Grab and drop SR_lock to get the thread to honor the safepoint protocol
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, rbackman, minqi

Summary: Reserved memory had PROT_READ+PROT_WRITE access on Linux/bsd, now changed to PROT_NONE.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ctornqvi

Summary: Instead of terminating the VM, throw OutOfMemoryError exceptions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Keep sweeping regardless of if we are flushing
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8013129: Possible deadlock with Metaspace locks due to mixed usage of safepoint aware and non-safepoint aware locking
Summary: Change Metaspace::deallocate to take lock with _no_safepoint_check_flag
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, alanb, cjplummer, olagneau
Contributed-by: NCarlos Lucasius <carlos.lucasius@oracle.com>

Summary: Change the assert to if check as MethodCounters could be NULL under TieredCompilation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8011898: gc/TestVerifyBeforeGCDuringStartup.java: java.lang.RuntimeException: '[Verifying' missing from stdout/stderr: [Error: Could not find or load main class]
Summary: System.getProperty("test.java.opts") can return NULL, which gets converted to to the empty string, and the child java command then interprets that as the name of the main class.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso