8186088: ConstantPoolCache::_resolved_references is not a JNIHandle
Summary: Make an OopHandle type to replace jobject to encapsulate these oop pointers in metadata and module entry.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dholmes, jiangli, twisti

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

8171392: Move Klass pointers outside of ConstantPool entries so ConstantPool can be read-only
Summary: Added _resolved_klasses; moved _resolved_references to ConstantPoolCache, etc.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, lfoltan, simonis, aph

8166765: [ppc] Port "8163014: Mysterious/wrong value for long frame local variable on 64-bit"
Reviewed-by: mockner

8161258: Simplify including platform files.
Summary: Include patform files with macros cpu_header() etc. Do various cleanups of macro usages. Remove _64/_32 from adlc generated files and platform .hpp files. Merge stubRoutines_x86*.hpp. Remove empty mutex_<os>* files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, kbarrett

8159335: Fix problems with stack overflow handling.
Reviewed-by: dlong, coleenp, mdoerr

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

8154867: PPC64: Better byte behavior
Reviewed-by: goetz

Merge

8145117: PPC64: Remove cpp interpreter implementation
Reviewed-by: coleenp, mdoerr

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

Merge

8136525: Generate interpreter entries only once and avoid unnecessary jump to jump
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, aph

8135085: Change Method::_intrinsic_id from u1 to u2
Summary: Convert Method::_intrinsic_id from u1 to u2 to expand id range over 255.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam, jiangli
Contributed-by: aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com

8132242: LogTouchedMethods (8025692) asserts if TieredCompilation is off.
Summary: LogTouchedMethods causes the template interpreter to generate profiling code even if no compiler is used. If TieredCompilation is off, code containing an assertion that checks that UseCompiler is set, is reached. This assertion exists on the sparc and ppc platforms.
Reviewed-by: simonis, iklam, minqi
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

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

8072910: Move the g1EvacFailure.hpp implementation to g1EvacFailure.cpp
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, tschatzl

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

8066964: ppc64: argument and return type profiling, fix problem with popframe
Reviewed-by: roland, kvn

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

8048721: -XX:+PrintCompilation prints negative bci for non entrant OSR methods
Summary: Removed 'InvalidOSREntryBci' and checking nmethod::_state instead to determine if an osr method is non-entrant.
Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov, drchase

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

8036956: remove EnableInvokeDynamic flag
Summary: The EnableInvokeDynamic flag and all support code is removed because it is not longer used in JDK 9.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: Tobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann@oracle.com>

8036976: PPC64: implement the template interpreter
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp
Contributed-by: axel.siebenborn@sap.com, martin.doerr@sap.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