Reviewed-by: stefank, hseigel, mgerdin

Summary: Use conservative assumptions of required alignment for the various garbage collector components into account when determining the maximum heap size that supports compressed oops. Using this conservative value avoids several circular dependencies in the calculation.
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes

Summary: Correctly calculate the initialization value for the shift between object start and bitmap bit in the G1 mark bitmaps.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Correctly pass the requested base address for the heap to the OS function to reserve memory.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, stefank

Summary: Use best-fit block-splitting freelist allocation from the block freelist.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgerdin, hseigel

Reviewed-by: azeemj, brutisso, kvn, tschatzl

Summary: Added brackets for if-statement
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Moved local scheduling code from class Block to class PhaseCFG
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

8023381: VM fails to initialize in runtime/CDSCompressedKPtrs/XShareAuto.java runtime/SharedArchiveFile/CdsSameObjectAlignment.java
Summary: Improve handling when CDS archive cannot be mapped
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, mseledtsov

Summary: skip verification for generated lambda classes
Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes

Summary: Fixed a memory leak in FlatProfiler::record_thread_tick() method
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ccheung

8019902: G1: Use the average heap size rather than the minimum heap size to calculate the region size
Reviewed-by: tonyp, tschatzl, sjohanss

Summary: declare all user-defined operator new()s within Hotspot code with the empty throw() exception specification
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, dholmes, hseigel, dcubed, kvn, ccheung
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: don't re-evaluate stack bounds for main thread before install guard page
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, dlong

8016764: JVM does not prohibit invokespecial in c.f.v 51.0 that invokes default interface method in c.f.v 52.0
Summary: Check cfv before allowing invokespecial call to default method.
Reviewed-by: kamg, acorn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman

Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

Summary: Avoid loading old values in G1 pre-barriers for inlined unsafe load_store nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn, tonyp
Contributed-by: NMartin Doerr <martin.doerr@sap.com>

Summary: removed offending EXCEPTION_MARK calls and code cleanup
Reviewed-by: dholmes, iklam, coleenp, mseledtsov

Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

Summary: Method pointer for zombie methods may be invalid
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Add the relevant test and proofread the VM messages as well
Reviewed-by: coleenp, mseledtsov, dcubed

8022595: JSR292: deadlock during class loading of MethodHandles, MethodHandleImpl & MethodHandleNatives
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Create public methods for accessing the nodes in a block
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Return NULL on OOM from GetStringChars, GetStringUTFChars and Get<PrimitiveType>ArrayElements family of functions.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Make tests query a new WhiteBox API to see if NMT detail is supported, and behave properly if it is not supported.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Added support for statically linked agents
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, bobv, coleenp

Reviewed-by: acorn, sla

Summary: Need to check if the constant pool mapping returns 0.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

8023393: Need to suppress info message if -Xcheck:jni used with libjsig.dylab on Mac OSX
Summary: Rewrite 7051189 test in Java, port Linux fix for 7051189 to Mac OSX.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, mseledtsov, ccheung

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, stefank

Summary: When using NUMA and large pages we need to ease the requirement on which node the memory should be allocated on. To avoid the SIGBUS we now use the memory policy MPOL_PREFERRED, which prefers a certain node, instead of MPOL_BIND, which requires a certain node.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, pliden
Contributed-by: stefan.johansson@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: vladimir.kempik@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: tonyp, tschatzl

Summary: Do patching rather bailing out for unlinked call with appendix
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: set control edge for previous value load in G1 pre-barrier
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: store in _first_index not absolute index but an index relative to the last (youngest) jvms->_scloff value
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti