8016729: ObjectAlignmentInBytes=16 now forces the use of heap based compressed oops
8005933: The -Xshare:auto option is ignored for -server
Summary: Move klass metaspace above the heap and support CDS with compressed klass ptrs.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, mgerdin, tschatzl, stefank

Summary: remove unused breakpoint relocation type
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Removed most of the SPARC V8 instructions
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Forced SPARC MacroAssembler eden_alloate to use long branch to slow case
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: support for strings that have same life-time as code that uses them.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NMorris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NBharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

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>

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: kvn, jrose, bdelsart

Summary: Moved sizeof(klassOopDesc), changed the return type to ByteSize and removed the _in_bytes suffix.
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart, coleenp, jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

Summary: Remove the macro assembler routine br_on_reg_cond() and replace the remaining calls to that routine with an equivalent.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Replace set() with patchable_set() to generate 8 instructions always.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never, roland

Summary: Use BIS for zeroing new allocated big (2Kb and more) objects and arrays.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, ysr

Summary: Add new short branch instruction to Hotspot sparc assembler.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: A referent object that is only weakly reachable at the start of concurrent marking but is re-attached to the strongly reachable object graph during marking may not be marked as live. This can cause the reference object to be processed prematurely and leave dangling pointers to the referent object. Implement a read barrier for the java.lang.ref.Reference::referent field by intrinsifying the Reference.get() method, and intercepting accesses though JNI, reflection, and Unsafe, so that when a non-null referent object is read it is also logged in an SATB buffer.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, never, tonyp, dholmes

Summary: package and class renaming only; delete unused methods and classes
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Replaced incr_allocated_bytes() formals var_size_in_bytes and con_size_in_bytes with a single RegisterOrConstant formal.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jcoomes

Summary: Track allocated bytes in Thread's, update on TLAB retirement and direct allocation in Eden and tenured, add JNI methods for ThreadMXBean.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, dholmes, ysr

Summary: After 6961690 we load non-oop pointers for the constant table which could easily be materialized in a few instructions.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: oops should be loaded from the constant table of an nmethod instead of materializing them with a long code sequence.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: This change implements compressed oops for C1 for x64 and sparc. The changes are mostly on the codegen level, with a few exceptions when we do access things outside of the heap that are uncompressed from the IR. Compressed oops are now also enabled with tiered.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, phh

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: This is the renaming part of 6961697 to keep the actual changes small for review.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6958465: Sparc aten build24.0: openjdk-7.ea-b96 failed Error: Formal argument ... requires an lvalue
Summary: Fix compilation errors.  Made non-const references const so can be assigned with lvalue.
Reviewed-by: phh, xlu

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

Reviewed-by: coleenp, never, gbenson

Summary: There are unimplemented portions of the hotspot code for method handles and invokedynamic specific to SPARC.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Reviewed-by: pbk, kvn

Summary: For signatures with a large number of arguments the offset for the float store becomes too big and does not fit in 13-bit.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6875866: Intrinsic for String.indexOf() is broken on x86 with SSE4.2
Summary: Modify String intrinsic methods to pass char[] pointers instead of string oops.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Modifications to G1 so as to allow the use of compressed oops.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, coleenp, jmasa, kvn, never, phh, tonyp