Summary: Shark is a JIT compiler for Zero that uses the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Pass the check in ResourceObj() if _allocation value is already set and object is allocated on stack.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, johnc

Summary: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

Summary: set Z = 0 (not equal) before repne_scan() to indicate that class was not found when RCX == 0.
Reviewed-by: never, phh

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes

Summary: Add JVM_CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic records to constant pool to determine per-instruction BSMs.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add hotspot support for modules image
Reviewed-by: acorn

Summary: fix MonitorInUseLists memory leak and MonitorBound now works
Reviewed-by: chrisphi, dice

Summary: Adjust performance flags settings.
Reviewed-by: never, phh

Summary: G1 was not handling explicit GCs correctly in many ways. It does now. See the CR for the list of improvements contained in this changeset.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, ysr, johnc

Reviewed-by: phh

Summary: Missing protected page below heap with compressed oops on Linux with large pages use.
Reviewed-by: never, phh, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: dcubed, kvn, twisti

6956958: assert(is_clean() || is_call_to_compiled() || is_call_to_interpreted() || is_optimized() || is_megam
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Modify assembler code to check for 0 count for all copy routines.
Reviewed-by: never, ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Add new CP types CONSTANT_MethodHandle, CONSTANT_MethodType; extend 'ldc' bytecode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: Enable parallel compilation in C1
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: New optional flags to reduce inflated monitor cleanup times
Reviewed-by: chrisphi, dice

Summary: Add a stress-test flag for running MethodComparator over many inputs.  Fix bugs that crop up.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Added new product ObjectAlignmentInBytes flag to control object alignment.
Reviewed-by: twisti, ysr, iveresov

Summary: C1 for SPARC needs to support JSR 292.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: This moves the oops from Codeblob to nmethod.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kamg, ysr, dholmes, johnc

Reviewed-by: never, kvn
Contributed-by: eric.caspole@amd.com

Summary: Use resolve_external_guard() instead of resolve_non_null().
Reviewed-by: thurka, kamg, acorn

6951582: Build problems on win64
Summary: Changes to enable building JDK7 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Reviewed-by: ohair, art, ccheung, dcubed

Summary: GC-locker induced concurrent full gc should be asynchronous; policy now controlled by a separate flag, which defaults to false.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: On sun4v/CMT avoid use of memset() in BOT updates so as to prevent concurrent BOT readers from seeing the phantom zeros arising from memset()'s use of BIS.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, minqi, poonam, tonyp

Summary: Adjust MethodType lookup logic to search off the BCP, but not to cache those results
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: split MethodHandle.invoke into invokeExact and invokeGeneric; also clean up JVM-to-Java interfaces
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: coleenp, never, gbenson

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, apetrusenko, never, dcubed

6949307: G1: raise a vm error, do not core dump, if target pause time and target interval are inconsistent
Summary: First, change the guarantee to raising a vm error. Second, set the interval dynamically, and based on the pause time target, if it is not set explicitly.
Reviewed-by: ysr, johnc

Reviewed-by: twisti

6941529: SharedRuntime::raw_exception_handler_for_return_address must reset thread MethodHandle flag
Summary: During testing a bug was hit when an exception returned to the interpreter and the SP was wrong.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Use BIS instruction for allocation prefetch on Sparc
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Use FieldsAllocationStyle=2 to allocate non static oop fields in super and sub classes together
Reviewed-by: twisti