Reviewed-by: tonyp, jmasa, apetrusenko

Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Summary: test for null instead of strlen
Reviewed-by: rasbold

Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Treat a chuck where the allocation has failed as fully used.
Reviewed-by: ysr

6719149: Wrong "java/lang/String should not be loaded yet" assertion in fastdebug bits with UseStringCache
Summary: Assertion is invalid because java.lang.String may be initialized just before this assertion.
Reviewed-by: phh

Reviewed-by: kamg, kvn
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: handle NaN costs more carefully
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Push DecodeN node below the Null check to the non-null path to use the mach node without 0 test.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: An update buffer is not processed correctly, which causes roots into the collection set not to be scanned and, hence, for the heap to be corrupted. The cause is that an object is accessed after it has been explicitly deleted, which causes a race.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, ysr

Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose

Summary: insert CastII nodes to narrow type of load_array_length() node
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: add missing implicit null check cases.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add support for narrow oops in debug info to avoid decoding.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: Always look for the existing phi for a processed live_range.
Reviewed-by: rasbold

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add asserts with dead loop checks in AddNode::Ideal().
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Changed the guard on the definition of the method value in HeapWord from ASSERT to not PRODUCT.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, apetrusenko

Reviewed-by: rasbold

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

Summary: Turn off c2 implicit null checking on windows and large pages specified.
Reviewed-by: jrose, xlu

Reviewed-by: rasbold

Summary: insert_goto_at should set frequency for newly created blocks
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Missing edge to a call's return value in EA Connection Graph.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: 6730514 inadvertently disabled perm gen expansion; reenable
Reviewed-by: ysr

Summary: Set offset to OffsetBot when the add overflows in TypePtr::add_offset()
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: The result of step_through_mergemem() and remove_dead_region() is not checked in some cases.
Reviewed-by: never

6459804: Want client (c1) compiler for x86_64 (amd64) for faster start-up
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: rasbold, martin
Contributed-by: doko@ubuntu.com

Summary: Fixed CMSConcMarkingTask::reset() to store the restart address upon a marking stack overflow and to use it as the base, suitably aligned, for restarting the scan in CMSConcMarkingTask::do_scan_and_mark().
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, tonyp

Summary: Include DB fix to resolve a compilation issue with the latest gcc.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, ysr

Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

6622418: G1: assert(false,"Non-balanced monitor enter/exit!") fails
Summary: The mark-sweep compact (which we use for full gc) wrapper did not save the mark words for biased locked objects.  The fix is to trivially call the appropriate methods.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, ysr

Summary: The fix avoids a call to address_for_index() in this particular situation where it is not known if the passed index is in bounds.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Temporarily switch off the precleaning of Reference lists completely until related issues are fixed in 6722113.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, poonam, tonyp

Summary: Removing two buggy methods that should not be used, but ended up being used due to a re-organization in the class hierarchy.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ysr, kamg, coleenp

Summary: check for not-nullness after proving that types are unrelated
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: rematerializing nodes results in incorrect inputs
Reviewed-by: rasbold

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed, jcoomes