Summary: The clipping code in the routine that sets the bits for a range of cards, in the liveness accounting verification code was incorrect. It set all the bits in the card bitmap from the given starting index which would lead to spurious marking verification failures.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jwilhelm, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Removed the unused keep_alive parameter
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, kamg, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: ysr, dholmes, sla

Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp, kvn

Summary: Reset the fields in ParGCAllocBuffer, that are used for accumulating values for the ResizePLAB sensors in PLABStats, to zero after flushing the values to the PLABStats fields. Flush PLABStats values only when retiring the final allocation buffers prior to disposing of a G1ParScanThreadState object, rather than when retiring every allocation buffer.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, ysr

Summary: The warnings associated with the UseMemSetInBOT flag are duplicated in CMS and G1. The separate warnings have been removed and single instance of the warning has been placed in a common location.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr

Summary: The is_zeroed parameter is no longer used and so can be removed.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jmasa, brutisso
Contributed-by: NBrandon Mitchell <brandon@twitter.com>

Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Summary: Move the first part of the GC logging, including timestamp, to the start of the GC
Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm

Summary: restore java/lang/ClassLoader.addClass() upcall
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, jmasa

Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc, ysr
Contributed-by: NHal Mo <kungu.mjh@taobao.com>

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Thread stack's base address can be NULL if it is not started or exited before recording the base
Reviewed-by: kvn, fparain

Summary: missing test for T_METADATA leads to incorrect register allocation.
Reviewed-by: kvn

7181995: NMT ON: NMT assertion failure assert(cur_vm->is_uncommit_record() || cur_vm->is_deallocation_record
Summary: Fixed virtual memory records merge and promotion logic, should be based on sequence number vs. base address order
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: There was a rogue os::breakpoint() call in log_dependency left over from the jsr292 merge.  Also changed verify_oop() calls for metadata to verify_{method,klass}_ptr.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: C1 needs knowledge of T_METADATA at the LIR level.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Fix the iteration over the system classes and report the correct reference kind.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rbackman

Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, jmasa, kvn

7196103: NPG: Unable to allocate bit map for parallel garbage collection for the requested heap size
Summary: Don't allocate huge class metaspace size by default on x64
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, kvn

Summary: Simple renaming to be consistent with instanceKlass->InstanceKlass renaming
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

Reviewed-by: jcoomes, brutisso

7195867: NPG: SAJDI tests fail with sun.jvm.hotspot.types.WrongTypeException: No suitable match for type
Summary: Need to restore the vtable in metadata when we restore the type from the shared archive.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jcoomes, jmasa, jrose

Summary: Remove the workaround of 7187454 problem which was restored incorrectly during NPG merge.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Don't decompress the klass pointer in the G1 pre-barrier code when !UseCompressedKlassPointers
Reviewed-by: coleenp, brutisso

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp