Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, kmo

Summary: Disable -XX:+UseLargePages for MacOS X
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Remove support for the UseVectoredExceptions flag
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kamg
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Use new x86 AES instructions for AESCrypt.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, roland
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

Summary: Enhanced virtual memory tracking to track committed regions as well as reserved regions, so NMT now can generate virtual memory map.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp

Summary: Added code to write the value of the java.class.path property to the hs_err file.
Reviewed-by: kmo, dholmes, kvn
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: The -XX:+UseVMInterruptibleIO flag is deprecated for JDK8.  The flag will still enable Interruptible IO on Solaris, but users will get a warning.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, alanb
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: add LogCompilation support in C1 - both client and tiered mode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Remove buggy experimental option
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Change the flags and variables related to tenuring threshold to be unsigned
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Reviewed-by: johnc

Reviewed-by: brutisso, neliasso

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

8000230: Change os::print_location to be more descriptive when a location is pointing into an object
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, twisti

Summary: Added missed _bottom_type set in ArchDesc::defineExpand() and missed vector nodes in MatchRule::is_vector().
Reviewed-by: twisti, roland, dlong

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

Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank, jprovino, ohair

Summary: Print out statistics of collected NMT data if it is on at VM exits
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti

Summary: Solaris only, record stack info to NMT after stack size adjustment was made for primordial threads
Reviewed-by: kvn, acorn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla, fparain
Contributed-by: NDmytro Sheyko <dmytro_sheyko@hotmail.com>

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

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

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

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

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

Summary: Added capability to load support classes for other cpus
Reviewed-by: coleenp, bobv, sla
Contributed-by: NBill Pittore <bill.pittore@oracle.com>

Summary: Remove the SharedSkipVerify flag
Reviewed-by: kamg, sspitsyn, coleenp
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: NTao Mao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

7178363: G1: Remove the serial code for PrintGCDetails and make it a special case of the parallel code
Summary: Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com. Introduced the WorkerDataArray class. Fixed some minor logging bugs.
Reviewed-by: johnc, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Provide additional detail in VerifyError messages
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, acorn

6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: NJohn Rose &lt;john.r.rose@oracle.com&gt;, Christian Thalinger &lt;christian.thalinger@oracle.com&gt;, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dholmes, coleenp, kamg