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

Reviewed-by: bobv, dbuck

Reviewed-by: bobv, dbuck

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

Summary: Fixed by removing all code related to LowMemoryProtection, which removed offending code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi

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

Summary: OOM during reallocation of scalar replaced objects in deoptimization causes crashes
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, sla

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, bdelsart, jcoomes

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

Reviewed-by: brutisso, sjohanss

Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

8041623: Solaris Studio 12.4 C++ 5.13, CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS use of class oop's copy constructor definitions causing error level diagnostic.
Summary: Fix several minor compilation issues with volatile oops for CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS support.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

Summary: Need to know arm cpu type earlier in the init sequence to avoid illegal instruction
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong, bdelsart

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

8043029: Change 8037816 breaks HS build with older GCC versions which don't support diagnostic pragmas
8043164: Format warning in traceStream.hpp
Summary: Backport of main fix + two corrections, enables clang compilation, turns on format attributes, corrects/mutes warnings
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, iveresov, twisti

Reviewed-by: iveresov, roland, coleenp

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, coleenp

Summary: Preventing GCs to occur before VM is completely initialized. This was previously partly done by one part of the GC locker which not was removed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, pliden

Summary: Use RTM for inflated locks and stack locks.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti, roland, dcubed

Summary: Use spin lock to manage ParkEvent and PlatformEvent free lists.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, fparain, dcubed, acorn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, stefank, twisti

8189170: Add option to disable stack overflow checking in primordial thread for use with JNI_CreateJavaJVM
Reviewed-by: dcubed

8029727: On OS X dtrace probes Call<type>MethodA/Call<type>MethodV are not fired.
8029728: On OS X dtrace probes SetStaticBooleanField are not fired
Reviewed-by: kamg, dsamersoff

8026877: Error in opening JAR file when invalid jar specified with -Xbootclasspath/a on OpenJDK build
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti

Summary: Ensure ensure correct initialization of compiler runtime
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Enable CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS in fastdebug builds across all supported platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, dholmes, stefank, twisti, ihse, rdurbin
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: allwin, acorn, dcubed, dholmes, egahlin

Summary: Minor cleanup of static agent code from 8014135
Reviewed-by: dcubed, sspitsyn

Summary: Use conservative assumptions of required alignment for the various garbage collector components into account when determining the maximum heap size that supports compressed oops. Using this conservative value avoids several circular dependencies in the calculation.
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes

8022595: JSR292: deadlock during class loading of MethodHandles, MethodHandleImpl & MethodHandleNatives
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Added support for statically linked agents
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, bobv, coleenp

Summary: this fix also removes the -XX:+UseStringCache option
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, iklam

Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed, dsimms

Summary: Remove -Xaprof and Klass::_alloc_count & ArrayKlass::_alloc_size.
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

Summary: Precompute limit for stack overflow check.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Reduce default size of Thread::_metadata_handles from 300 to 30
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, mgronlun