Summary: ELFv2 ABI used by the little endian PowerPC64 on Linux.
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: asmundak@google.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: axel.siebenborn@sap.com

Summary: Implement missing function Matcher::pass_original_key_for_aes() in ppc64 ad file.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Remove search in system dictionary and hacks, replace with verifying in CLD::_klasses list.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn

Summary: Remove check for warning
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, hseigel, coleenp

Summary: When string and symbol table unlink are not performed in parallel, the claim index we check is not updated, and so a guarantee fails. Take this into account when checking the guarantee.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jwilhelm

8033106: Wrong predicate for checking whether the correct amount of symbol table entries have been processed in G1
Summary: The change fixes the predicate check.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tonyp, stefank

Summary: Clean up and slightly optimize reference handling from the GC reference task queue. Since we never push partial array chunks as narrowOop* we can manually specialize the code so that some code can be optimized away.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, brutisso, stefank

Summary: Add test case for the VerifySilently flag.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: fix warnings
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Made the flags Min- and MaxHeapFreeRatio manageable, and implemented support for these flags in ParallelGC.
Reviewed-by: sla, mgerdin, brutisso

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: lana

Summary: Switch off EliminateAutoBox flag by default in jdk8 release.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: Added -Xmx256m -XX:ParallelGCThreads=4 to the test @run command. Verified that 256m is enough to trigger old 6826736 bug.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8028553: The JVM should not throw VerifyError when 'overriding' a static final method in a superclass.
Summary: Check if method is static before throwing exception.
Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp, lfoltan, fparain