8185969: PPC64: Improve VSR support to use up to 64 registers
Reviewed-by: mdoerr, goetz
Contributed-by: Gustavo Serra Scalet <gustavo.scalet@eldorado.org.br>

8185975: PPC64: Fix vsldoi interface according to the ISA
Reviewed-by: mdoerr
Contributed-by: Gustavo Serra Scalet <gustavo.scalet@eldorado.org.br>

8181809: PPC64: Leverage mtfprd/mffprd on POWER8
Reviewed-by: mdoerr, simonis
Contributed-by: Matthew Brandyberry <mbrandy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

8179527: Implement intrinsic code for reverseBytes with load/store
Reviewed-by: simonis, mdoerr
Contributed-by: Michihiro Horie <horie@jp.ibm.com>

8171244: PPC64: Make interpreter's math entries consistent with C1 and C2 and support FMA
Reviewed-by: kvn, goetz

8166684: PPC64: implement intrinsic code with vector instructions for Unsafe.copyMemory()
Reviewed-by: simonis, mdoerr
Contributed-by: Michihiro Horie <horie@jp.ibm.com>

8166777: [ppc] port "8164086: Checked JNI pending exception check should be cleared"
Reviewed-by: fparain, dholmes

8164920: ppc: enhancement of CRC32 intrinsic
Reviewed-by: goetz, mdoerr
Contributed-by: Hiroshi H Horii <horii@jp.ibm.com>

8159976: PPC64: Add missing intrinsics for sub-word atomics
Reviewed-by: shade, goetz

Merge

8154156: PPC64: improve array copy stubs by using vector instructions
Reviewed-by: goetz, mdoerr
Contributed-by: Gustavo Romero <gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

8156923: [ppc] Implement "JEP 270: Reserved Stack Areas for Critical Sections".
Reviewed-by: simonis, dholmes

8152172: PPC64: Support AES intrinsics
Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr, simonis
Contributed-by: horii@jp.ibm.com

8147937: Adapt SAP copyrights to new company name.
Reviewed-by: simonis, stuefe

8145913: PPC64: add Montgomery multiply intrinsic
Reviewed-by: aph, goetz

8144019: PPC64 C1: Introduce Client Compiler
Reviewed-by: goetz

8077838: Recent developments for ppc.
Summary: Power 8 recognition and instructions, math.*Exact intrinsics and rtm, C2 optimizations
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis

8068724: ppc64: update assembler: SPR access, CR logic, HTM
Summary: Fix bug in encoding of special purpose registers. Provide more convenient version of condition register logic instructions. Enhance support for hardware transactional memory.
Reviewed-by: kvn, goetz

8059592: Recent bugfixes in ppc64 port.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8050942: PPC64: implement template interpreter for ppc64le
Reviewed-by: kvn, goetz
Contributed-by: asmundak@google.com

8036767: PPC64: Support for little endian execution model
Reviewed-by: goetz, kvn, dholmes, simonis
Contributed-by: asmundak@google.com

8035647: PPC64: Support for elf v2 abi.
Summary: ELFv2 ABI used by the little endian PowerPC64 on Linux.
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: asmundak@google.com

8029940: PPC64 (part 122): C2 compiler port
Reviewed-by: kvn

8019972: PPC64 (part 9): platform files for interpreter only VM.
Summary: With this change the HotSpot core build works on Linux/PPC64. The VM succesfully executes simple test programs.
Reviewed-by: kvn