8181852: Remove option 'UseV8InstrsOnly'
Summary: Not supported
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: phedlin@oracle.com

8179903: Clean up SPARC 32-bit support
Reviewed-by: gthornbr, fparain

8150388: Remove SPARC 32-bit support
Reviewed-by: hseigel, coleenp, dholmes, kvn

8166560: [s390] Basic enablement of s390 port.
Summary: Also fix problem with ARM Elf configuration.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

8140520: segfault on solaris-amd64 with "-XX:VMThreadStackSize=1" option
Summary: Split the single thread_min_stack_allowed into three distinct values (java_thread_min_stack_allowed, compiler_thread_min_stack_allowed and vm_internal_thread_min_stack_allowed) on non-Windows platforms.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, gthornbr, dholmes, coleenp, fparain, aph

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

8073500: Prevent certain commercial flags from being changed at runtime
Summary: Implement new writeable mechanism for flag control
Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam

8146801: Allocating short arrays of non-constant size is slow
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, vlivanov

8147379: Investigate if ConvertSleepToYield still should be false by default on Sparc
Reviewed-by: dcubed, sjohanss

8046936: JEP 270: Reserved Stack Areas for Critical Sections
Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed

8141132: JEP 254: Compact Strings
Summary: Adopt a more space-efficient internal representation for strings.
Reviewed-by: alanb, bdelsart, coleenp, iklam, jiangli, jrose, kevinw, naoto, pliden, roland, smarks, twisti
Contributed-by: Brent Christian <brent.christian@oracle.com>, Vivek Deshpande <vivek.r.deshpande@intel.com>, Tobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann@oracle.com>, Charlie Hunt <charlie.hunt@oracle.com>, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov@oracle.com>, Roger Riggs <roger.riggs@oracle.com>, Xueming Shen <xueming.shen@oracle.com>, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>, Sandhya Viswanathan <sandhya.viswanathan@intel.com>

Merge

8078556: Runtime: implement ranges (optionally constraints) for those flags that have them missing.
Summary: JEP 245: implement ranges and constraints for runtime flags.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ddmitriev, jiangli, goetz
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com, gerard.ziemski@oracle.com

8078554: Compiler: implement ranges (optionally constraints) for those flags that have them missing
Summary: Add range check or constraint where necessary.
Reviewed-by: roland, thartmann

8130332: StarvationMonitorInterval, PreInflateSpin, VerifyGenericSignatures and CountInterpCalls VM Options can be deprecated or removed in JDK 9
Summary: Deprecate StarvationMonitorInterval and PreInflateSpin, remove VerifyGenericSignatures and CountInterpCalls
Reviewed-by: coleenp, gziemski

8122937: [JEP 245] Validate JVM Command-Line Flag Arguments.
Summary: Validate the arguments to all JVM command-line flags so as to avoid crashes, and ensure that appropriate error messages are displayed when they are invalid.
Reviewed-by: ddmitriev, dholmes, kbarrett, drwhite, brutisso, coleenp

8080308: TypeProfileLevel on SPARC platform should enable JSR292-only profiling level
Summary: Set TypeProfileLevel to 111 by default on sparc
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@oracle.com

8068945: Use RBP register as proper frame pointer in JIT compiled code on x86
Summary: Introduce the PreserveFramePointer flag to control if RBP is used as the frame pointer or as a general purpose register.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, dlong, enevill, shade

8074459: Flags handling memory sizes should be of type size_t
Summary: Changed the type to size_t for flags that handles memory sizes
Reviewed-by: kbarrett, tschatzl

Merge

8029015: PPC64 (part 216): opto: trap based null and range checks
Summary: On PPC64 use tdi instruction that does a compare and raises SIGTRAP for NULL and range checks.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8029233: Update copyright year to match last edit in jdk8 hotspot repository for 2013
Summary: Copyright year updated for files modified during 2013
Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

8023657: New type profiling points: arguments to call
Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for arguments at calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8008407: remove SPARC V8 support
Summary: Removed most of the SPARC V8 instructions
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

6843347: Boundary values in some public GC options cause crashes
Summary: Setting some public integer options to specific values causes crashes or undefined GC behavior. This patchset adds the necessary argument checking for these options.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

6677625: Move platform specific flags from globals.hpp to globals_<arch>.hpp
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: Tao Mao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

7145587: Stack overflows in Java code cause 64-bit JVMs to exit due to SIGSEGV (sparc version)
Summary: Increase StackShadowPages to accomodate the JDK changes to increase buffer size in socketWrite
Reviewed-by: acorn, phh, dcubed, kamg, dsamersoff

6896099: Integrate CMS heap ergo with default heap sizing ergo
6627787: CMS: JVM refuses to start up with -Xms16m -Xmx16m
7000125: CMS: Anti-monotone young gen sizing with respect to maximum whole heap size specification
7027529: CMS: retire CMSUseOldDefaults flag
Summary: Simplify CMS heap sizing code, relying on ergonomic initial sizing consistent with other collectors for the most part, controlling only young gen sizing to rein in pause times. Make CMS young gen sizing default statically cpu-dependant. Remove inconsistencies wrt generation sizing and policy code, allowing for the fixing for 6627787 and 7000125. For 7027529, retire the flag CMSUseOldDefaults which had been introduced as a bridge from JDK 5 to JDK 6 a number of years ago.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, poonam

6989984: Use standard include model for Hospot
Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

6989297: Integrate additional portability improvements
Reviewed-by: vladidan, dholmes

6941466: Oracle rebranding changes for Hotspot repositories
Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

6940701: Don't align loops in stubs for Niagara sparc
Summary: Don't align loops in stubs for Niagara sparc since NOPs are expensive.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

6887571: Increase default heap config sizes
Summary: Apply modification of existing server heap size ergo to all collectors except CMS.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, ysr, xlu

6862919: Update copyright year
Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

6821700: tune VM flags for peak performance
Summary: Tune C2 flags default values for performance.
Reviewed-by: never, phh, iveresov, jmasa, ysr

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