Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Use GrowableArray and VectorSet allocated in ciEnv arena.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Check that cpuid returns valid values for processor topology (not zeros).
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Execute IGVN optimization before and after Escape Analysis
Reviewed-by: never

6965671: fatal error: acquiring lock JNIGlobalHandle_lock/16 out of order with lock CodeCache_lock/1
Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

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

Reviewed-by: ysr, jmasa

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

Summary: Use replace_node() method instead of subsume_node().
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

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

Summary: array_overlap_test() fails when the address range crosses the MSB boundary. Thanks to Tom and Vladimir for their help on this one.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, iveresov

Summary: normalize widen value in xmeet() and xdual() methods for types Int and Long so the type meet will be symmetric.
Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: phh

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

Summary: Shrinking of a generation and the corresponding card table was causing part of the card table to be uncommitted.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: Minor source code adjustments for parfait compilation, since it uses different compiler vs. JDK
Reviewed-by: never, kamg

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: check that raw loads have control edge
Reviewed-by: never, twisti