Reviewed-by: neliasso, rkennke, dlong

Summary: Added C2 matching rules to remove unnecessary sign extension for byte array access.
Reviewed-by: roland, kvn, aph, adinn

Reviewed-by: andrew, phh

Summary: Cast to void* within DTRACE_CLASS* macros.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, shade

Summary: Implement _lh_array_tag_type_value as const, not enum.
Reviewed-by: vlivanov, minqi

Reviewed-by: phh, mbalao, bae

Reviewed-by: kbarrett, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: goetz, mdoerr
Contributed-by: NKazunori Ogata <ogatak@jp.ibm.com>

Summary: Change copyright date from 2017 to 2018.
Reviewed-by: andrew

Reviewed-by: sla, kbarrett, gziemski

Reviewed-by: thartmann, kvn

Summary: Prevent downgraded compilation tasks from recompiling.
Reviewed-by: sgehwolf, thartmann, andrew

Summary: Includes compile_id addition from JDK-8054492
Reviewed-by: andrew

Reviewed-by: mdoerr, goetz
Contributed-by: NGustavo Serra Scalet &lt;gustavo.scalet@eldorado.org.br&gt;, Kazunori Ogata <ogatak@jp.ibm.com>

Summary: Avoided collecting unaligned stores in Initialize node by making can_capture_store return false for same
Reviewed-by: dlong, kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: simonis, mdoerr
Contributed-by: NMichihiro Horie <horie@jp.ibm.com>

Summary: Bail out of CEE if one of the gotos is a safepoint but the if is not.
Reviewed-by: vlivanov, mdoerr

Reviewed-by: mdoerr, goetz
Contributed-by: NBruno Rosa &lt;bruno.rosa@eldorado.org.br&gt;, Gustavo Serra Scalet &lt;gustavo.scalet@eldorado.org.br&gt;, Igor Nunes &lt;igor.nunes@eldorado.org.br&gt;, Martin Doerr <martin.doerr@sap.com>

Summary: Summary: os::readdir uses POSIX readdir, drop buffer arg, fix JFR uses.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, tschatzl, bsrbnd, shade, phh

Summary: Guard against regions degraded to copies.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: implement os::set_native_thread_name() on windows, linux
Reviewed-by: sla, ctornqvi, simonis
Contributed-by: thomas.stuefe@sap.com

Summary: Add tag bit to all JNI weak handles
Reviewed-by: kbarrett, coleenp, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: stuefe, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: goetz, mdoerr
Contributed-by: NKazunori Ogata <ogatak@jp.ibm.com>

Summary: Speed up ParNew collections by pruning the list of scavengable nmethods.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp, twisti

Reviewed-by: shade, roland

Reviewed-by: tbell, asaha

Reviewed-by: erikj, dholmes

Reviewed-by: aph, mdoerr

Summary: Introduce alignment-safe Copy::conjoint_swap and JVM_CopySwapMemory
Reviewed-by: mikael, dholmes

Summary: Correction of failed backport of JDK-8211394 via JDK-8212696.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coffeys

Reviewed-by: neliasso, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, jcbeyler

Reviewed-by: dbuck

Summary: Backport from JDK12
Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Backport from JDK9
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coffeys

8172850: Anti-dependency on membar causes crash in register allocator due to invalid instruction scheduling
Summary: Regression test and additional asserts. The problem is fixed by 8087341.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: alanb, clanger, bobv