Summary: Add missing cache_line_size > 0 checks.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: extract processor count from sched_getaffinity mask
Reviewed-by: dholmes, gthornbr

Reviewed-by: hseigel

Summary: Behavior of strncmp may be unexpected if char buffers[s] is[are] not null terminated and buffer size is smaller than the length n. Added check to avoid this scenario.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, iklam

Summary: Before processing an element in the non-shared overflow buffer, try to push it into the local shared buffer to keep it full.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ehelin, sjohanss

Summary: Under error conditions, always return -1 and perform null termination regardless of the behavior of underlying vsnprintf() implementation.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, cjplummer

Reviewed-by: rprotacio

Summary: Method::deallocate_contents() should clear 'this' from list of Methods in JNIMethodBlock, when class is unloaded.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: acorn, mschoene, ctornqvi
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

8042660: vm/mlvm/anonloader/stress/byteMutation failed with: assert(index >=0 && index < _length) failed: symbol index overflow
Summary: Detect zero length signatures and throw ClassFormatError before bad dereference occurs
Reviewed-by: hseigel

Reviewed-by: pliden, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: acorn, mschoene
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: acorn, mschoene
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: NXiang Yuan &lt;xiang.yuan@linaro.org&gt;, Zoltan Majo <zoltan.majo@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: pliden

Reviewed-by: jrose, hseigel, vlivanov, bmoloden, ctornqvi, mschoene

Reviewed-by: rprotacio

Reviewed-by: jrose, hseigel, vlivanov, bmoloden, ctornqvi, mschoene

Summary: Correct backport of 8159244.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: gthornbr, hseigel, mschoene
Contributed-by: gerard.ziemski@oracle.com

Summary: Emit release barrier after String creation to prevent partially initialized object from escaping.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Adjust instruction generation.
Reviewed-by: goetz
Contributed-by: gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com, horii@jp.ibm.com

Summary: MetadataOnStackMark must be done before calling free_deallocate_list().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: C2 treats x^2 as a special case and computes x * x while the interpreter and c1 don't have special case code for X^2.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Typo error referring new_acitve_workers is corrected as new_active_workers
Reviewed-by: jmasa, drwhite
Contributed-by: fairoz.matte@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: acorn, jdn
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: iklam, hseigel, acorn, mschoene

Reviewed-by: acorn, jdn
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: iklam, acorn, mschoene

Reviewed-by: iklam, acorn, mschoene

Summary: Guarantee is to ensure classloader is a valid oop will help catch the errors at an early stage rather than crashing the JVM later on in the GC
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Emit release barrier after String creation to prevent partially initialized object from escaping.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes
Contributed-by: james.cheng@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

8055530: assert(_exits.control()->is_top() || !_gvn.type(ret_phi)->empty()) failed: return value must be well defined
Summary: concurrent class loading causes return phi to become top
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, sspitsyn, sla

Reviewed-by: hseigel

8076995: gc/ergonomics/TestDynamicNumberOfGCThreads.java failed with java.lang.RuntimeException: 'new_active_workers' missing from stdout/stderr
Reviewed-by: jmasa, drwhite

Reviewed-by: jmasa, kbarrett, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel, mschoene