Summary: GC log rotation can be set via java command line, but customer sometime need to sync with OS level rotation setting.
Reviewed-by: sla, minqi, ehelin
Contributed-by: suenaga.yasumasa@lab.ntt.co.jp

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: morris, kvn

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn, iignatyev
Contributed-by: filipp.zhinkin@oracle.com

Summary: enable type speculation
Reviewed-by: kvn

8036092: [TESTBUG] compiler/uncommontrap/TestSpecTrapClassUnloading.java fails with: Unrecognized VM option 'UseTypeSpeculation'
Summary: Add -XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions to @main/othervm to make the test pass on Client VM
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Add support for BMI1 instructions
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: roland, sla, dholmes

8027257: [TESTBUG] compiler/ciReplay/TestVM.sh : Error: Could not find or load main class negative_test
Reviewed-by: roland, kvn

8027124: [TESTBUG] NonTieredLevelsTest: java.lang.RuntimeException: private TestCase$Helper(java.lang.Object) must be osr_compiled
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Reviewed-by: dcubed, mgronlun

8031752: Failed speculative optimizations should be reattempted when root of compilation is different
Summary: support for speculative traps that keep track of the root of the compilation in which a trap occurs.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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

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

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn, iignatyev
Contributed-by: filipp.zhinkin@oracle.com

Summary: Native pointers less than 64 bits wide should be extended as an unsigned number.
Reviewed-by: kvn, kevinw

Summary: Detailed breakdown of time spent in the evacuation failure handling phases to make the "Other" time roughly correspond to the sum of its parts.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa

Summary: Show the time taken by card redirtying during GC in a new "Redirty Cards" line.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso

Summary: Improve fast card cache iteration and avoid taking locks when freeing the collection set.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Summary: Change the code cache remembered sets data structure from a GrowableArray to a chunked list of nmethods. This makes the data structure more amenable to parallelization, and decreases freeing time.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso

Summary: Added tests for Min/MaxHeapFreeRatio flags
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, tschatzl
Contributed-by: andrey.x.zakharov@oracle.com

Summary: Implementation of JEP 192, http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/192
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl, coleenp

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

Summary: type methods shouldn't always operate on speculative part
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Restrict loadI2L_imm optimizations to positive values of mask
Reviewed-by: kvn, dlong

8027455: Improve symbol table scan times during gc pauses
Summary: Parallelize string table and symbol table scan during remark and full GC. Some additional statistics output if the experimental flag G1TraceStringSymbolTableScrubbing is set.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, brutisso

Summary: Fix the sizing of loadUS2L_immI16 and loadI2L_immI
Reviewed-by: kvn, azeemj

Reviewed-by: jrose, acorn, hseigel, lfoltan

Summary: Return immediately if _prologue == NULL, instead of asserting
Reviewed-by: ccheung, coleenp

Summary: Add intrinsics/stub routines support for single-block and multi-block (as used by Cipher Block Chaining mode) AES encryption and decryption operations on the SPARC platform.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@oracle.com

8007710: runtime/7158988/FieldMonitor.java fails with com.sun.jdi.VMDisconnectedException: Connection closed
Reviewed-by: sla, jbachorik, sspitsyn

8027314: Java should recognize Diagnostic options if -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions is not specified and print an informative message
Summary: clarifying the error messages associated with vm options of type diagnostic, experimental, develop, and notproduct
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, ctornqvi

Summary: removing a check in LinkResolver::resolve_method() to conform with a change in JVMS-8 5.4.3.3. Method Resolution
Reviewed-by: coleenp, lfoltan

Summary: Restoring bytecodes for invokedynamic had wrong index calculation added testing stress option.
Reviewed-by: twisti, hseigel

8032024: Test not added for bug 8025937: assert(existing_f1 == NULL || existing_f1 == f1) failed: illegal field,change
Summary: Test didn't get hg added with original bug fix
Reviewed-by: jrose, hseigel, lfoltan

Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, sla

8028623: SA: hash codes in SymbolTable mismatching java_lang_String::hash_code for extended characters.
Reviewed-by: sla, dsamersoff