Reviewed-by: kvn

8170888: [linux] Experimental support for cgroup memory limits in container (ie Docker) environments
Summary: Set apparent physical memory to cgroup memory limit when UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap is true
Reviewed-by: acorn, gtriantafill
Contributed-by: NChristine Flood <chf@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: dcubed, sspitsyn, gtriantafill

Summary: Use the initial active processor count for memory initialization instead of the current active one.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mgerdin

Summary: Introduce and initialize active_processor_count variable in VM.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, jprovino

Reviewed-by: kevinw, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: mgronlun, alanb, dholmes

Reviewed-by: hseigel

Summary: extract processor count from sched_getaffinity mask
Reviewed-by: dholmes, gthornbr

Summary: Before processing an element in the non-shared overflow buffer, try to push it into the local shared buffer to keep it full.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ehelin, sjohanss

Summary: Under error conditions, always return -1 and perform null termination regardless of the behavior of underlying vsnprintf() implementation.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, cjplummer

Reviewed-by: rprotacio

Summary: Method::deallocate_contents() should clear 'this' from list of Methods in JNIMethodBlock, when class is unloaded.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: acorn, mschoene, ctornqvi
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: don't convert loop with safepoint on the backedge to Counted loop
Reviewed-by: kvn

8042660: vm/mlvm/anonloader/stress/byteMutation failed with: assert(index >=0 && index < _length) failed: symbol index overflow
Summary: Detect zero length signatures and throw ClassFormatError before bad dereference occurs
Reviewed-by: hseigel

Reviewed-by: pliden, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: acorn, mschoene
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: acorn, mschoene
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: NXiang Yuan &lt;xiang.yuan@linaro.org&gt;, Zoltan Majo <zoltan.majo@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: pliden

Reviewed-by: jrose, hseigel, vlivanov, bmoloden, ctornqvi, mschoene

Reviewed-by: rprotacio

Reviewed-by: jrose, hseigel, vlivanov, bmoloden, ctornqvi, mschoene

Summary: Correct backport of 8159244.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: gthornbr, hseigel, mschoene
Contributed-by: gerard.ziemski@oracle.com

Summary: Emit release barrier after String creation to prevent partially initialized object from escaping.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Adjust instruction generation.
Reviewed-by: goetz
Contributed-by: gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com, horii@jp.ibm.com

Summary: MetadataOnStackMark must be done before calling free_deallocate_list().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: C2 treats x^2 as a special case and computes x * x while the interpreter and c1 don't have special case code for X^2.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Typo error referring new_acitve_workers is corrected as new_active_workers
Reviewed-by: jmasa, drwhite
Contributed-by: fairoz.matte@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: acorn, jdn
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: iklam, hseigel, acorn, mschoene

Reviewed-by: acorn, jdn
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: iklam, acorn, mschoene

Reviewed-by: iklam, acorn, mschoene

Summary: Guarantee is to ensure classloader is a valid oop will help catch the errors at an early stage rather than crashing the JVM later on in the GC
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Emit release barrier after String creation to prevent partially initialized object from escaping.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes
Contributed-by: james.cheng@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn