Reviewed-by: kvn, cfang

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Loop predication implementation
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Put all inline-related switches into product mode, to allow tuning by dynamic language implementors.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: More informative disassembly in product mode.  Also, a more consistent CompileCommand syntax.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Remove AND operation only if mask is equal to shift.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Check RootNode before check Loop in IfNode::up_one_dom().
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: kevin.brown@sun.com

Summary: Put generated MH adapter in InvokeDynamic/MethodHandle classes to be able to indentify them easily in the compiler.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Summary: Add missing check that value is used in memory expression in instructions with embedded load.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Change the flag -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal to product and add new product flag -XX:+PrintFlagsInitial.
Reviewed-by: phh, ysr
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: C2 needs some additional optimizations to be able to handle MethodHandle invokes and invokedynamic instructions at the best performance.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: C2 implementation for invokedynamic support.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: EA incorrectly identifies escape state of an allocation passed as call argument.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: During the work for 6829187 we have fixed a number of basic bugs which are logically grouped with 6815692 and 6858164 but which must be reviewed and pushed separately.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: We need a way to walk chained method handles in the JVM to call the right methods and to generate required bytecode adapters for the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Zero currently won't build on zSeries or PowerPC machines with assertions turned on.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Smaller fixes to ensure that Zero still works with non-standard options.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Update the HS17 build number to 06
Reviewed-by: jcoomes