8173715: Remove FlatProfiler
Summary: Obsoleted Xprof flag, removed FlatProfiler code
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, vlivanov, pliden

8173335: Improve logging for j.l.ref.reference processing
Summary: Add logs for each phases of references and stats for each worker threads
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, shade

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

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

8174749: Use hash table/oops for MemberName table
Summary: Add a Java type called ResolvedMethodName which is immutable and can be stored in a hashtable, that is weakly collected by gc
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, stefank, jrose

8171008: Integrate AOT compiler into JDK
Reviewed-by: erikj, mchung, psandoz, coleenp, iklam, stefank, simonis
Contributed-by: Bharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>, Christian Thalinger <cthalinger@twitter.com>, Dean Long <dean.long@oracle.com>, Dmitrij Pochepko <dmitrij.pochepko@oracle.com>, Dmitry Chuyko <dmitry.chuyko@oracle.com>, Doug Simon <doug.simon@oracle.com>, Eric Caspole <eric.caspole@oracle.com>, Igor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>, Igor Veresov <igor.veresov@oracle.com>, John Rose <john.r.rose@oracle.com>, Morris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>, Niclas Adlertz <niclas.adlertz@oracle.com>, Rickard Backman <rickard.backman@oracle.com>

8154580: Save mirror in interpreter frame to enable cleanups of CLDClosure
Summary: GC walks the mirror using OopClosure rather than using CLDClosure in oops_interpreted_do()
Reviewed-by: dlong, twisti, stefank

8152100: Rework and unify the GC phase logging
Reviewed-by: sjohanss, jwilhelm

8027423: Parallel compact GC class unloading measurement includes symbol and string table time
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jmasa

8151539: Remove duplicate AlwaysTrueClosures
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, mgerdin, kbarrett, drwhite

8151605: Change warning() to log_warning(gc) in the GC code
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa

8149035: Make the full_gc_dump() calls be recorded as part of the GC
Reviewed-by: jmasa, sjohanss

8145192: 'count' variable can overflow in PSMarkSweep::invoke on 64 bit JVM
Summary: Changed MarkSweepAlwaysCompactCount from uintx to uint
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, tbenson

8146690: Make all classes in GC follow the naming convention.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, stefank

8145092: Use Unified Logging for the GC logging
Summary: JEP-271. VM changes contributed by brutisso, test changes contributed by david.
Reviewed-by: sjohanss, david, brutisso
Contributed-by: bengt.rutisson@oracle.com, david.lindholm@oralce.com

8140485: Class load and creation cleanup
Reviewed-by: hseigel, coleenp, sspitsyn

Merge

8136421: JEP 243: Java-Level JVM Compiler Interface
Reviewed-by: ihse, alanb, roland, coleenp, iveresov, kvn, kbarrett

8134953: Make the GC ID available in a central place
Reviewed-by: pliden, jmasa

8129417: Oop iteration clean-up to remove oop_ms_follow_contents
Reviewed-by: pliden, ehelin

7012980: PSOldGen is increased if there is no space in Metaspace
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, tbenson

8080947: Add uint as a valid VM flag type
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ddmitriev

8072913: [REDO] GCCause should distinguish jcmd GC.run from System.gc()
Summary: GCCause which is caused by GC.run diagnostic command should be different from System.gc() .
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

8079792: GC directory structure cleanup
Reviewed-by: brutisso, stefank, david