Reviewed-by: andrew

8047212: runtime/ParallelClassLoading/bootstrap/random/inner-complex assert(ObjectSynchronizer::verify_objmon_isinpool(inf)) failed: monitor is invalid
Summary: Fix race between ObjectMonitor alloc and verification code; teach SA about "static pointer volatile" fields.
Reviewed-by: andrew

Reviewed-by: dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: phh, dholmes

Summary: Correct the obsolete version of UseOldInlining and AutoShutdownNMT, and delete UseOldInlining in c2_globals.hpp
Reviewed-by: phh

Reviewed-by: mdoerr, dholmes, kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, minqi

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, phh

Summary: Allow zero sized code buffer when checking if there's enough remaining size
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: phh, andrew

8155951: VM crash in nsk/jvmti/RedefineClasses/StressRedefine: assert failed: Corrupted constant pool
8151066: assert(0 <= i && i < length()) failed: index out of bounds
Summary: lock classes for redefinition because constant pool merging isn't thread safe, use method constant pool because constant pool merging doesn't make equivalent cpCaches because of invokedynamic
Reviewed-by: shade, andrew

Summary: Prepare Zero build for backport of JDK-8062808.
Reviewed-by: sgehwolf

Summary: increase code_size2 for stubs
Reviewed-by: iveresov

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

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

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: tbell, asaha

Reviewed-by: erikj, dholmes

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

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

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: tschatzl

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: bobv, dbuck

Reviewed-by: bobv, dbuck

8164480: Crash with assert(handler_address == SharedRuntime::compute_compiled_exc_handler(..) failed: Must be the same
Summary: Exception checking code needs to handle pre-allocated exceptions.
Reviewed-by: thartmann, kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, ahgross, acorn, vlivanov

Summary: Bias compiler thread's resource area to mtCompiler
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Set UseLoopCounter ergonomically if on-stack-replacement is enabled. Print warning.
Reviewed-by: kvn

6651256: jstack: DeleteGlobalRef method call doesn't lead to descreasing of global refs count shown by jstack
Summary: jni_DeleteGlobalRef does not really release the jni handle, instead, set the handle point to JNIHandles::_deleted_handle which holds an oop instance (java/lang/Object) in Java heap and never be GC'ed. When counting number of global reference, it counts all the handles on the chain list, which includes the already deleted ones.
Reviewed-by: zgu, sla, coleenp
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, bobv

Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, bobv

Summary: The GetOwnedMonitorInfo() should not return a pending monitor
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: Fixed missing null checks on the result of CodeCache::find_blob() found by Parfait.
Reviewed-by: shade, kvn

Summary: Make appending found dead BasicHashtableEntrys to the free list atomic.
Reviewed-by: ehelin, shade

Reviewed-by: kbarrett, stefank

Reviewed-by: kbarrett, stefank