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

8179953: [ppc] TLABWasteIncrement not loaded correctly
Summary: Also fix TestOptionWithRanges to show the bug.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, shade

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

8168083: PPC64: Cleanup template interpreter after 8154580 and 8154867
Reviewed-by: goetz, coleenp

8166689: PPC64: Race condition between stack bang and non-entrant patching
Reviewed-by: goetz

Merge

8159620: -XX:-UseOnStackReplacement does not work together with -XX:+TieredCompilation on ppc64 and sparc
Reviewed-by: goetz, kvn, thartmann

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

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

Merge

8148047: Move the vtable length field to Klass
Reviewed-by: cjplummer, twisti, coleenp, kbarrett

8147461: Use byte offsets for vtable start and vtable length offsets
Reviewed-by: cjplummer, coleenp, dnsimon

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

Merge

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

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

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

Merge

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

8076492: Make common code from template interpreter code
Summary: Move case statement out of assembly code
Reviewed-by: minqi, sspitsyn, dholmes

Merge

8076163: ppc: port "8074345: Enable RewriteBytecodes when VM runs with CDS"
Reviewed-by: coleenp, simonis, mdoerr

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

8071805: BarrierSet::Other is not used and should be removed.
Summary: Remove all occurences of BarrierSet::Other because the barrier set kind is never set to Other.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, kbarrett

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

8061308: Remove iCMS
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jmasa

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

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

8042309: Some bugfixes for the ppc64 port.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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