8183039: Re-examine methodHandle methods uninlined by 8144256
Summary: Add more const references so out-of-line methodHandle destructor and copy ctor called infrequently
Reviewed-by: hseigel, redestad

8181449: Fix debug.hpp / globalDefinitions.hpp dependency inversion
Summary: Refactor debug.hpp and reverse include dependency.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank, dcubed

8169881: Remove implicit Handle conversions oop->Handle
Summary: Pass THREAD to Handle as argument instead of implicit Thread::current() call.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

8166377: is_compiled_by_jvmci hot in some profiles - improve nmethod compiler type detection
Summary: Refactor code removing virtual call
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8165755: [JVMCI] replace use of vm_abort with vm_exit
Reviewed-by: dholmes

8156835: [JVMCI] clean up and minimize JVMCI
Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

8156034: [JVMCI] Notify the jvmci compiler on completion of a bootstrap
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: josef.eisl@jku.at

8152311: [JVMCI] allow JVMCI compiler to change the compilation policy for a method
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

8153013: BlockingCompilation test times out
Summary: Task has no invocation count and get stale at once
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, twisti

8132524: Missing includes to resourceArea.hpp
Summary: Files that use ResourceMark are missing the include of resourceArea.hpp
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jwilhelm

8151871: [JVMCI] missing HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION check
Reviewed-by: kvn

8148507: [JVMCI] mitigate deadlocks related to JVMCI compiler under -Xbatch
Reviewed-by: twisti, dholmes

8147432: JVMCI should report bailouts in PrintCompilation output
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8146246: JVMCICompiler::abort_on_pending_exception: assert(!thread->owns_locks()) failed: must release all locks when leaving VM
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn

8145435: [JVMCI] some tests on Windows fail with: assert(!thread->is_Java_thread()) failed: must not be java thread
Reviewed-by: never, dnsimon, dholmes, coleenp

Merge

8142329: [JVMCI] pass Handle by value
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: Roland Schatz <roland.schatz@oracle.com>

Merge

8139170: JVMCI refresh
Reviewed-by: kvn

Merge

8139163: InstanceKlass::cast passes through NULL
Summary: Reduce raw (InstanceKlass*) casts and InstanceKlass::cast, which no long allows null
Reviewed-by: twisti, kbarrett

8137167: JEP165: Compiler Control: Implementation task
Summary: Compiler Control JEP
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti, zmajo, simonis

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