Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, hseigel

Summary: Grab and drop SR_lock to get the thread to honor the safepoint protocol
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Reserved memory had PROT_READ+PROT_WRITE access on Linux/bsd, now changed to PROT_NONE.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ctornqvi

Summary: Instead of terminating the VM, throw OutOfMemoryError exceptions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, alanb, cjplummer, olagneau
Contributed-by: NCarlos Lucasius <carlos.lucasius@oracle.com>

Summary: Remove support for parsing class files with four-byte flags fields in MethodParameters attributes
Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp

Summary: Re-use InstanceKlass::_init_lock locking ConstantPool as well.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn

Summary: References from operands to CP entries and back must be correct after CP merge
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: refactored code to allow platform-specific differences
Reviewed-by: dlong, twisti
Contributed-by: NGoetz Lindenmaier <goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com>

Summary: Call this function from the ClassLoaderData destructor instead of the system dictionary walk.
Reviewed-by: stefank, mgerdin

Summary: Made NMT query safepoint aware.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: USe err_msg() to create a proper assertion message.
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp, iklam

Summary: Array bound check elimination's in block motion doesn't always reset its data structures from one step to the other.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Lambda changes; spec 0.6.2 - remove the restriction that was added as part of recent changes made to support upcoming changes to compilation of lambda methods.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: anti-delta fix for 8010992 until 8012902 can be fixed
Reviewed-by: acorn, minqi, rdurbin

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman
Contributed-by: peter.allwin@oracle.com

Summary: Lazily create and maintain the MemberNameTable to be able to update MemberName's
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: disable use of global operator new and new[] which could cause unexpected exception and escape from NMT tracking.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Lambda changes; spec 0.6.2 - Allow static invokestatic and invokespecial calls to InterfaceMethod_ref
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: NMT value objects should use VALUE_OBJ_CLASS_SPEC instead of deriving from _ValueObj
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, dholmes

8012455: Missing time and date stamps for PrintGCApplicationConcurrentTime and PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime
Summary: also reviewed by: kirk@kodewerk.com, brandon@twitter.com
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, stefank, johnc

Summary: Increase default string table size to 60013 for 64-bit platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: iris, mduigou, jjg

8012052: java/lang/invoke/6987555/Test6987555.java crashes with assert(mcs != NULL) failed: MethodCounters cannot be NULL.
Summary: Skip counter decay if the MethodCounters is NULL in NonTieredCompPolicy::delay_compilation().
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn, kmo, shade

Summary: add missing ResourceMark under TraceMethodHandles in LinkResolver
Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Remove continous free block requirement
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

Summary: missing #ifdef ASSERT
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Repair wrong code generation, added new matching rule
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: remove JPRT debug builds, remove -DDEBUG -DFASTDEBUG and use ASSERT instead in sources
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

8010151: nsk/regression/b6653214 fails "assert(snapshot != NULL) failed: Worker should not be started"
Summary: Fixed a racing condition when shutting down NMT while worker thread is being started, also fixed a few mis-declared volatile pointers.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong

Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Summary: Refactor the CLD dependency list into a separate class. Use an ObjectLocker to synchronize additions to the CLD dependency list.
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

Summary: loop invariant code motion may move load before store to the same field
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Allocate the method's profiling related metadata until they are needed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

8011671: JCK tests on static interface methods fail under b84: Illegal type at constant pool entry 5
Summary: Restore incorrect removal of support for static interface method verification in Java 8
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp