Summary: Changed gen_write_ref_array_post_barrier() code on x64 to pass start address and number of copied oop elements. In generate_checkcast_copy() skip post barrier code if no elements are copied.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: Stop current iteration of loop opts if partial_peel() failed and it created node clones outside processed loop.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: added <config.h> to header file to make hsdis compile with binutils 2.23.*
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

8014765: VM exits if MaxTenuringThreshold is set below the default InitialTenuringThreshold, and InitialTenuringThreshold is not set
Summary: The VM exits when the condition in the subject line applies. The fix sets InitialTenuringThreshold to MaxTenuringThreshold if it is larger than MaxTenuringThreshold and InitialTenuringThreshold has not been set (is default).
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, brutisso, johnc

8010738: G1: Output for full GCs with +PrintGCDetails should contain perm gen size/meta data change info
Summary: Include metaspace information (used, allocated, reserved) in the PrintGCDetails output for full GCs.
Reviewed-by: poonam, jmasa, brutisso

Summary: Added command line parameter to define a threshold at which C1 compilation threshold for  is increased.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Improve the output of G1PrintRegionLivenessInfo by adding a per-region remembered set size information column
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, johnc

Summary: Mismatch in the card number calculation between next and previous committed sizes of the card counts table.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: kvn

8007763: Refactoring: split up compute_generation_free_space() into two functions for class PSAdaptiveSizePolicy
Summary: split up compute_generation_free_space() into two functions: compute_eden_space_size() + compute_old_gen_free_space(), each of which (if needed) can be reused without executing an overhead of the other.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl
Contributed-by: Ntamao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: Setting some public integer options to specific values causes crashes or undefined GC behavior. This patchset adds the necessary argument checking for these options.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: The fix of 8010992, disable use of global operator new and new[] which caused failure on some tests. This takes two of the bugs also add ALLOW_OPERATOR_NEW_USAGE to prevent crash for third party code calling operator new of jvm on certain platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

8014489: tests/gc/arguments/Test(Serial|CMS|Parallel|G1)HeapSizeFlags jtreg tests invoke wrong class
Summary: Some jtreg tests reference unknown classes in the @run and @build lines. This change fixes them.
Reviewed-by: stefank, ehelin

Summary: Added the -XX:SharedArchiveFile option.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung, acorn, dcubed, zgu

Summary: Remove obsolete debugging code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: Corrected escape state for the result of boxing method. Added force inlining executed boxing methods.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Need to walk array class vtables replacing old methods too if j.l.o redefined
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, ctornqvi

Reviewed-by: stefank, tschatzl

Summary: The patch for 8006088 misses regression tests after a merge error, this CR provides them.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, tamao, jmasa

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: With NPG, const KlassOop klass which is in fact a definition converted to Klass* const, which is not the original intention. The right usage is converting them to const Klass*.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Add NULL checks and asserts for Type::make_ptr() returned value.
Reviewed-by: twisti