Summary: Removed nmethod transition to zombie outside of sweeper. Added cleaning of ICs of unloaded nmethods.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: the cached class file structure must be deallocated instead of the cached class file bytes
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sla

8061715: gc/g1/TestShrinkAuxiliaryData15.java fails with java.lang.RuntimeException: heap decommit failed - after > before
Summary: added WhiteBox methods to count regions and exact aux data sizes
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso

Reviewed-by: kvn, iignatyev

Summary: Optimize the method pointer adjustments for prev klass versions and MNT
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: remove the assert and deallocate cashed class file bytes that are in collision
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: A dead scope  of the local needs to be identified
Reviewed-by: coleenp, vlivanov, mgronlun

8046246: the constantPoolCacheOopDesc::adjust_method_entries() used in RedefineClasses does not scale
Summary: optimize the adjust_method_entries functions by using the orig_method_idnum() function
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: Relax the guaranty for deleted methods
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Warning when not checking exceptions from function that require so, also when local refs expand beyond capacity.
Reviewed-by: dsimms

8072863: Replace fatal() with vm_exit_during_initialization() when an incorrect class is found on the bootclasspath
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: NCheleswer Sahu <cheleswer.sahu@oracle.com>

Summary: Allow use of large pages for auxiliary data structures in G1. Clean up existing interfaces.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, pliden, stefank

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed

Reviewed-by: sla, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed

Summary: Unsafe is not recommended and may deprecated in future. Added a WhiteBox API to get VM page size.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ccheung, mseledtsov
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: note all MemberNames created on internal list for adjusting method entries.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, lfoltan

8058251: assert(_count > 0) failed: Negative counter when running runtime/NMT/MallocTrackingVerify.java
Summary: Fixed an issue when overflowing the MallocSite hash table bucket
Reviewed-by: coleenp, gtriantafill

Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, coleenp

Summary: Check for a valid itable index instead of checking if the holder is an interface
Reviewed-by: dsimms, dholmes

8065346: WB_AddToBootstrapClassLoaderSearch calls JvmtiEnv::create_a_jvmti when not in _thread_in_vm state
Summary: Removed ThreadToNativeFromVM and use java_lang_String::as_utf8_string instead
Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi

Summary: Added API to track bootclasspath modification
Reviewed-by: jiangli, dholmes, minqi

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, bdelsart

Summary: Fixed Whitebox.deoptimizeMethod() to deoptimize all OSR versions of the method.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iignatyev

Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn, jfranck

Summary: Implemented the interface in sun.misc.URLClassPath and corresponding JVM_XXX APIs
Reviewed-by: mchung, acorn, jiangli, dholmes

Reviewed-by: shade, coleenp

Summary: Allow G1 to decommit memory of arbitrary regions within the heap and their associated auxiliary data structures card table, BOT, hot card cache, and mark bitmaps.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso, jwilhelm

Summary: Let HeapRegionSeq manage the heap region and auxiliary data to decrease the amount of responsibilities of G1CollectedHeap, and encapsulate this work from other code.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, mgerdin, brutisso

Summary: negative verify_guards when testing for corruption
Reviewed-by: sla, fparain

Summary: Wrapped memory with standard bounds checking "GuardedMemory".
Reviewed-by: zgu, fparain, dcubed

Summary: Cleaned up CDS to be more configurable, maintainable and extensible
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn, mchung

Summary: Extend the WhiteBox API to provide information about the size and age of objects. Further add a mechanism to trigger a young GC.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, sjohanss
Contributed-by: NLeonid Mesnik <leonid.mesnik@oracle.com>

Summary: Enhance scalability of native memory tracking
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi, gtriantafill

Summary: Removed pedantic checked exception warnings for AIOOBException, add to current handle capacity
Reviewed-by: hseigel, lfoltan

Reviewed-by: sjohanss, jmasa

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, sla

Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ehelin, brutisso, coleenp, roland, iveresov
Contributed-by: stefan.karlsson@oracle.com, mikael.gerdin@oracle.com

Summary: Improve protection domain check in forName()
Reviewed-by: mchung, acorn, jdn