Summary: Updated comments to refer to relevant patents.
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: Recognize the T7/M7 platform.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kvn, jmasa

Reviewed-by: bdelsart, ddmitriev, dcubed

Reviewed-by: sla, dsamersoff, gthornbr
Contributed-by: cheleswer.sahu@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Reviewed-by: dholmes

8131333: [TESTBUG] RedefineRunningMethodsWithResolutionErrors.java Improperly specified VM option 'TraceRedefineClasses=0x600'
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: check cacheline sine only for one core on sun4v SPARC systems.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add SO_AllCodeCache to root scanning options when not unloading classes with a CMS collection cycle
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Added check to prevent reentry of signal chaining code
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: tbell, iris