8160399: is_oop_or_null involves undefined behavior
8164984: Improper use of is_oop in production code
Summary: replace oop->is_oop*() with oopDesc::is_oop*(oop) so this pointer can be verified
Reviewed-by: iklam, kvn, dholmes

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

8183552: Move align functions to align.hpp
Reviewed-by: stuefe, pliden

8178499: Remove _ptr_ and _size_ infixes from align functions
Reviewed-by: rehn, tschatzl

8175369: [ppc] Provide intrinsic implementation for CRC32C
Reviewed-by: mdoerr, simonis, kvn

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

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

8158232: PPC64: improve byte, int and long array copy stubs by using VSX instructions
Reviewed-by: goetz, mdoerr
Contributed-by: Michihiro Horie <horie@jp.ibm.com>

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

8156088: Reintegrate 8153892: Handle unsafe access error directly in signal handler instead of going through a stub
Reviewed-by: stuefe, dholmes

8156066: Backout JDK-8153892
Reviewed-by: coleenp, mikael

8153892: Handle unsafe access error directly in signal handler instead of going through a stub
Reviewed-by: stuefe, dholmes

8153967: Remove top.hpp
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jwilhelm

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

8149655: PPC64: Implement CompactString intrinsics
Reviewed-by: goetz, kvn

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

Merge

8146613: PPC64: C2 does no longer respect int to long conversion for stub calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, goetz

Merge

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

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

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

8143014: Access PtrQueue member offsets through derived classes
Summary: Moved accessors to derived classes and updated callers.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa, twisti

8138733: Fix build: gcc < 4.8 doesn't grok -Wno-format-zero-length added in 8080775
Summary: Also fix one problematic format on ppc.
Reviewed-by: david, simonis

8072817: CardTableExtension kind() should be BarrierSet::CardTableExtension
Summary: Use BarrierSet::CardTableForRS where needed, and update concrete bs tags.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa

8131048: ppc: implement CRC32 intrinsic
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis
Contributed-by: lutz.schmidt@sap.com

8130653: ppc: implement MultiplyToLen intrinsic
Reviewed-by: simonis
Contributed-by: peter.januschke@sap.com

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

8067891: Remove vestigal G1SATBCT barrier set kind
Summary: Remove all case statements specifying G1SATBCT
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, kbarrett

8069016: Add BarrierSet downcast support
Summary: Add FakeRttiSupport utility and use to provide barrier_set_cast.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, sangheki

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

Merge

8049325: Introduce and clean up umbrella headers for the files in the cpu subdirectories.
Summary: Introduce and clean up umbrella headers for the files in the cpu subdirectories.
Reviewed-by: lfoltan, coleenp, dholmes

8049441: PPC64: Don't use StubCodeMarks for zero-length stubs
Summary: Remove StubCodeMark in generate_icache_flush, generate_verify_oop, generate_throw_exception
Reviewed-by: dcubed, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

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

8033117: PPC64: Adapt to 8002074: Support for AES on SPARC
Summary: Implement missing function Matcher::pass_original_key_for_aes() in ppc64 ad file.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8031319: PPC64: Some fixes in ppc and aix coding.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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