Reviewed-by: mdoerr, dholmes, kvn

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

Summary: Improve the nmethod unloading times by optimizing the search for an itable stub in VtableStubs array
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, tschatzl

Summary: Improve the nmethod unloading times by optimizing the search for an itable stub in VtableStubs array
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, tschatzl

8156137: SIGSEGV in ReceiverTypeData::clean_weak_klass_links
8057570: RedefineClasses() tests fail assert(((Metadata*)obj)->is_valid()) failed: obj is valid
Reviewed-by: coleenp

8156137: SIGSEGV in ReceiverTypeData::clean_weak_klass_links
8057570: RedefineClasses() tests fail assert(((Metadata*)obj)->is_valid()) failed: obj is valid
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov, rhalade, ahgross, jwilhelm
Contributed-by: tobias.hartmann@oracle.com

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

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

8143897: Weblogic12medrec assert(handler_address == SharedRuntime::compute_compiled_exc_handler(nm, pc, exception, force_unwind, true)) failed: Must be the same
Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr

Summary: Use Patching_lock to synchronize access between set_code() and clear_code().
Reviewed-by: kvn, dlong

Summary: Applied RMs in sweep_code_cache and related codes.
Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Summary: add missing includes
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank, sgehwolf, dholmes

Reviewed-by: stefank

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, vlivanov

Summary: Clean ICs of unloaded nmethods in sweeper to avoid impact on safepoint duration.
Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr

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

Summary: Remove active ICStubs from zombie nmethods
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: default methods added to classes confuse dependency processing
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: jrose, acorn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: jrose, acorn, vlivanov

Summary: Ignore non-instance Klasses in the subclass hierarchy.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iignatyev, jrose

Summary: refactor close to remove references to closed ports
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis, sgehwolf, dholmes

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: mdoerr, zgu

Summary: Applied RMs in sweep_code_cache and related codes.
Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Summary: Fixed parfait initialization issue.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8081202: Hotspot compile warning: "Invalid suffix on literal; C++11 requires a space between literal and identifier"
Summary: Need to add a space between macro identifier and string literal
Reviewed-by: bpittore, stefank, dholmes, kbarrett

Summary: Fixed internal_word_Relocation::target() to not retrieve target address from code if relocation points into the constant section. Added test.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Check for failed expansion of stub section in code buffer and bailout.
Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

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

Reviewed-by: iveresov, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, ehelin

Summary: Also-reviewed-by: kim.barrett@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

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

8040085: dtrace/jsdt tests crash on solaris. found an unadvertised bad scavengable oop in the code cache
Summary: Add CodeCache::add_scavenge_root_nmethod(this) to the dtrace-constructor of nmethod
Reviewed-by: roland, iveresov

Summary: Don't make compiled MH intrinsics not entrant when redefining classes
Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Summary: Added deallocation to destructor; hardened interface against misuse
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Call is_metadata instead which does less work for the call in debugInfo.hpp which is called for all compiled code stack frames.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kbarrett, vlivanov