8179302: Pre-resolve constant pool string entries and cache resolved_reference arrays in CDS archive.
8185924: G1NoteEndOfConcMarkClosure::doHeapRegion() does not do remembered set cleanup work for archive region.
Summary: Shared class' constant pool resolved_references array is cached.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam, tschatzl
Contributed-by: jiangli.zhou@oracle.com, thomas.schatzl@oracle.com

8185436: jtreg: introduce @requires property to disable cds tests
Summary: Fix CompressedClassPointers test to succeed also if cds is not available.
Reviewed-by: jiangli, mseledtsov, iklam

8072061: Automatically determine optimal sizes for the CDS regions
Summary: See new C++ class MetaspaceClosure.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jiangli, mseledtsov

Merge

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

8178500: Replace usages of round_to and round_down with align_up and align_down
Reviewed-by: rehn, tschatzl

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

8182554: Code for os::random() assumes long is 32 bits
Summary: And make updating the _rand_seed thread safe.
Reviewed-by: stuefe, kbarrett, stefank

8153646: Move vm/utilities/array.hpp to vm/oops
Summary: Move the header file and update the appropriate #include statements.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dholmes

8165896: Use "open" flag from JVM_DefineModule to export all module packages
Summary: Implemented VM side of open modules, which export all their packages unqualifiedly. Automatic modules and unnamed modules are treated internally as open modules.
Reviewed-by: alanb, hseigel, lfoltan

8169517: WhiteBox should provide concurrent GC phase control
Summary: Added WhiteBox API and G1 implementation.
Reviewed-by: shade, dfazunen

8167196: WhiteBox methods should throw an exception if used with inappropriate collector.
Reviewed-by: shade, dfazunen

8155672: Remove instanceKlassHandles and KlassHandles
Summary: Summary: Use unhandled pointers for Klass and InstanceKlass, remove handles with no implementation.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, lfoltan, vlivanov, sspitsyn

8172307: Remove ununsed JVM API JVM_GetModuleByPackageName()
Summary: Remove get_module_by_package_name() etc., and unneeded test.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, gtriantafill

Merge

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

8181087: Module system implementation refresh (6/2017)
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, hseigel

8173037: V [jvm.dll+0x2343fc] GraphBuilder::args_list_for_profiling+0x8c
Summary: Disabled WB Compilaton at unsupported levels.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8171855: Move package name transformations during module bootstrap into native code
Reviewed-by: alanb, acorn, lfoltan, mchung, plevart, hseigel, sspitsyn

8166002: Emulate client build on platforms with reduced virtual address space
Summary: The default VM ergonomics on Windows/x86 (32-bit) are changed to client like.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

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>

8169069: Module system implementation refresh (11/2016)
Reviewed-by: lfoltan, acorn, ctornqvi, mchung
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com, harold.seigel@oracle.com, alan.bateman@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com, george.triantafillou@oracle.com

8164086: Checked JNI pending exception check should be cleared when returning to Java frame
Summary: Transitions to Java clear the pending pointer
Reviewed-by: dholmes, neliasso, coleenp

8163313: assert(comp != __null) failed: compiler not available
Summary: Constrain compLevel parameter in WB_IsIntrinsicAvailable() to supported levels
Reviewed-by: kvn

Merge

8162881: Effect of -XX:CICompilerCount depends on ordering of other flags
Summary: Value of CICompilerCount should be range checked after ergo. Don't create C2 compiler threads with TieredStopAtLevel=1.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8161604: TestNewSizeFlags fails with RuntimeException: max new size != MaxNewSize value
Reviewed-by: sangheki, tschatzl

8026752: Cancel MetaspaceGC request for a CMS concurrent collection after GC
Reviewed-by: sjohanss, sangheki

8154096: Extend WhiteBox API with methods which retrieve from VM information about available GC
Reviewed-by: iignatyev, kbarrett

Merge

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

8154110: Update class* and safepoint* logging subsystems
Summary: Refactored logging tags in class and safepoint subsystems.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rehn, hseigel

Merge

8151956: Support non-continuous CodeBlobs in HotSpot
Reviewed-by: iveresov, thartmann, simonis

Merge

8154073: Several compiler tests fail when are executed with C1 only
Summary: Added missing flag checks to the tests and Whitebox API.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Merge

8153514: Whitebox API should allow compilation of <clinit>
Summary: Added Whitebox API method to trigger compilation of static initializer.
Reviewed-by: zmajo, kvn, iignatyev

8135200: Add White Box method that enumerates G1 old regions with less than specified liveness and collects statistics
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, dfazunen, iignatyev

Merge

8067247: Crash: assert(method_holder->data() == 0 ...) failed: a) MT-unsafe modification of inline cache
Summary: Made invoker LambdaForm instance & its compiled form lifetime tightly coupled.
Reviewed-by: vlivanov

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

Merge

8152113: Remove _last_ditch_collection GC-cause and avoid expanding heap on Metaspace OOM
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jwilhelm

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

Merge

8150646: Add support for blocking compiles though whitebox API
Reviewed-by: kvn, ppunegov, simonis, neliasso
Contributed-by: nils.eliasson@oracle.com, volker.simonis@gmail.com

8142968: Module System implementation
Summary: Initial integration of JEP 200, JEP 260, JEP 261, and JEP 282
Reviewed-by: acorn, ccheung, coleenp, ctornqvi, dholmes, dsimms, gtriantafill, iklam, jiangli, mgronlun, mseledtsov, cjplummer, sspitsyn, stefank, twisti, hseigel, lfoltan, alanb, mchung, dfazunen
Contributed-by: alan.bateman@oracle.com, alex.buckley@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, karen.kinnear@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, mark.reinhold@oracle.com, harold.seigel@oracle.com, lois.foltan@oracle.com, calvin.cheung@oracle.com, christian.tornqvist@oracle.com, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, george.triantafillou@oracle.com, igor.ignatyev@oracle.com, ioi.lam@oracle.com, james.laskey@oracle.com, jean-francois.denise@oracle.com, jiangli.zhou@oracle.com, markus.gronlund@oracle.com, serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com, staffan.larsen@oracle.com, sundararajan.athijegannathan@oracle.com

8148159: [TESTBUG] TestCompilerDirectivesCompatibility tests fails on non-tiered server VMs
Summary: Add whitebox for checking available compilers
Reviewed-by: kvn

8141616: Add new methods to the java Whitebox API
Reviewed-by: kvn, dpochepk

8148973: Rename g1/concurrentMark.{hpp,cpp,inline.hpp} to g1/g1ConcurrentMark.{hpp,cpp,inline.hpp}
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, mgerdin

Merge

8079408: Reimplement TraceClassLoading, TraceClassUnloading, and TraceClassLoaderData with Unified Logging.
Summary: TraceClassLoading, TraceClassUnloading, and TraceClassLoaderData have been reimplemented using Unified logging.
Reviewed-by: iklam, coleenp, dholmes, jiangli, hseigel, rprotacio
Contributed-by: max.ockner@oracle.com, ioi.lam@oracle.com

8147441: Unchecked pending exceptions in the WhiteBox API's implementation
Summary: Add checks for pending exceptions.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8145331: SEGV in DirectivesStack::release(DirectiveSet*)
Summary: getDefaultDirective was not updated in 8144873
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Merge

8132723: Add tests which check that soft references to humongous objects should work correctly
8132724: Add tests which check that weak references to humongous objects should work correctly
Reviewed-by: jmasa, dfazunen

8139864: Improve handling of stack protection zones.
Reviewed-by: stuefe, coleenp, fparain

8143072: [JVMCI] Port JVMCI to AArch64
Reviewed-by: gdub, rschatz, twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: aph@redhat.com

Merge

8072008: Emit direct call instead of linkTo* for recursive indy/MH.invoke* calls
Reviewed-by: jrose, dlong, aph, forax

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

8140802: Clean up and refactor of class loading code for CDS
Reviewed-by: jiangli, acorn, coleenp

Merge

8140597: Forcing an initial mark causes G1 to abort mixed collections
Summary: Postpone the initial mark request until the current mixed GC phase has finished.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin

8139170: JVMCI refresh
Reviewed-by: kvn

8139385: [TESTBUG]: JVMCI test crashes in constantPoolHandle::constantPoolHandle
Reviewed-by: kvn, iignatyev

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

Merge

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

8042893: compiler: PRAGMA_FORMAT_MUTE_WARNINGS_FOR_GCC needs to be removed from source files
8042894: runtime: PRAGMA_FORMAT_MUTE_WARNINGS_FOR_GCC needs to be removed from source files
Reviewed-by: goetz, brutisso

8135068: Extract method matchers from CompilerOracle
Summary: Ecapsulate code to enable reuse
Reviewed-by: roland, kvn

8132980: Improve stability of whitebox methods getCodeBlob and freeCodeBlob
Summary: Added checks for negative and null size and address values (where applicable) for getCodeBlob, allocateCodeBlob and freeCodeBlob, added regression test
Reviewed-by: iignatyev

8081317: [NEWTEST] documented GC ratio tuning and new size options should be covered by regression tests
Reviewed-by: iignatyev, dfazunen

8087181: Move native jimage code to its own library (maybe libjimage)
Reviewed-by: alanb, lfoltan, hseigel, acorn
Contributed-by: james.laskey@oracle.com, jean-francois.denise@oracle.com, roger.riggs@oracle.com

8130832: Extend the WhiteBox API to provide information about the availability of compiler intrinsics
Summary: Add a new method, sun.hotspot.WhiteBox.isIntrinsicAvailable, that can be used to determine if an intrinsic is available.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

8080511: Refresh of jimage support
Reviewed-by: alanb, mchung, psandoz, acorn, lfoltan, ctornqvi
Contributed-by: james.laskey@oracle.com, jean-francois.denise@oracle.com, sundararajan.athijegannathan@oracle.com

8081202: Hotspot compile warning: "Invalid suffix on literal; C++11 requires a space between literal and identifier"
Summary: Need to add a space between macro identifier and string literal
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, kbarrett

8079208: gc/g1/TestLargePageUseForAuxMemory.java fails due to not considering page allocation granularity for setup
Summary: The test case needs to use the OS'es allocation granularity to properly determine the boundary values for the test.
Reviewed-by: dfazunen, jmasa, ecaspole

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

8098821: Crash in system dictionary initialization with shared strings
Summary: map string regions after the compressed class base is known
Reviewed-by: iklam, dcubed
Contributed-by: coleen.phillimore@oracle.com, mikhailo.seledtsov@oracle.com

8015086: add interned strings to the shared archive.
Summary: Support saving interned strings in shared CDS archive.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam, pliden

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

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

Merge

8072863: Replace fatal() with vm_exit_during_initialization() when an incorrect class is found on the bootclasspath
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: Cheleswer Sahu <cheleswer.sahu@oracle.com>

Merge

8075214: SIGSEGV in nmethod sweeping
Summary: Changed implementation of forceNMethodSweep() to request sweep from existing sweeper thread.
Reviewed-by: kvn, mgerdin, dholmes

8058354: SPECjvm2008-Derby -2.7% performance regression on Solaris-X64 starting with 9-b29
Summary: Allow use of large pages for auxiliary data structures in G1. Clean up existing interfaces.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, pliden, stefank

8043225: Make whitebox API functions more stable
Summary: Added checks for null parameters where applicable
Reviewed-by: dholmes, iignatyev
Contributed-by: Kirill Zhaldybin <kirill.zhaldybin@oracle.com>

Merge

Merge

8061715: gc/g1/TestShrinkAuxiliaryData15.java fails with java.lang.RuntimeException: heap decommit failed - after > before
Summary: added WhiteBox methods to count regions and exact aux data sizes
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jwilhelm, mgerdin

Merge

8069111: Investigate NMT detail tracking support for 32bit ARM
Summary: Fix native stack walking issues arm arm32. Disable on thumb2. Removed support for NMT without NMT detail.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

8074980: add WhiteBox API to get a flag value for a method
Reviewed-by: kvn, fzhinkin

Merge

8068272: Extend WhiteBox API with methods that check monitor state and force safepoint
Reviewed-by: kvn, iignatyev

8064457: Introduce compressed oops mode disjoint base and improve compressed heap handling.
Summary: Introduce compressed oops mode disjoint base and improve compressed heap handling.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Merge

8028595: WhiteBox API for stress testing of TieredCompilation
Reviewed-by: kvn

8047290: Make Mutex::_no_safepoint_check_flag locks verify that this lock never checks for safepoint
Summary: Ensure consistent safepoint checking in Mutex/Monitor locking methods.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed, coleenp
Contributed-by: max.ockner@oracle.com

Merge

8064669: compiler/whitebox/AllocationCodeBlobTest.java crashes / asserts
Reviewed-by: kvn, anoll

Merge

Merge

8065579: WB method to start G1 concurrent mark cycle should be introduced
Summary: Add a WhiteBox callback to the VM to start a concurrent mark cycle in G1.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, sjohanss
Contributed-by: Leonid Mesnik <leonid.mesnik@oracle.com>

Merge

8060074: os::free() takes MemoryTrackingLevel but doesn't need it
Summary: Cleaned up unused arguments in os::free and it's callers.
Reviewed-by: lfoltan, coleenp, ctornqvi, dholmes
Contributed-by: max.ockner@oracle.com

8065783: DCMD parser fails to recognize one character argument when it's positioned last
Reviewed-by: sla, egahlin, fparain

8053995: Add method to WhiteBox to get vm pagesize.
Summary: Unsafe is not recommended and may deprecated in future. Added a WhiteBox API to get VM page size.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ccheung, mseledtsov
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Merge

8059550: JEP-JDK-8043304: Test task: segment overflow w/ empty others
Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann, iignatyev

Merge

Merge

8064581: Move INCLUDE_ALL_GCS include section to the end of the include list
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso, coleenp, dholmes

8065346: WB_AddToBootstrapClassLoaderSearch calls JvmtiEnv::create_a_jvmti when not in _thread_in_vm state
Summary: Removed ThreadToNativeFromVM and use java_lang_String::as_utf8_string instead
Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi

8064701: Some CDS optimizations should be disabled if bootclasspath is modified by JVMTI
Summary: Added API to track bootclasspath modification
Reviewed-by: jiangli, dholmes, minqi

8059624: Test task: WhiteBox API for testing segmented codecache feature
Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Merge

8061969: [TESTBUG] MallocSiteHashOverflow.java should be enabled for 32-bit platforms
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, coleenp

8058251: assert(_count > 0) failed: Negative counter when running runtime/NMT/MallocTrackingVerify.java
Summary: Fixed an issue when overflowing the MallocSite hash table bucket
Reviewed-by: coleenp, gtriantafill

8043125: compiler/types/correctness/CorrectnessTest.java: assert(layout->tag() == DataLayout::speculative_trap_data_tag) failed: wrong type
Reviewed-by: kvn

8054492: Casting can result in redundant null checks in generated code
Summary: add C2 intrinsic for Class.cast() method and force inline it too.
Reviewed-by: jrose, roland, drchase, iignatyev

8061817: Whitebox.deoptimizeMethod() does not deoptimize all OSR versions of method
Summary: Fixed Whitebox.deoptimizeMethod() to deoptimize all OSR versions of the method.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iignatyev

8061443: Whitebox get*VMFlag() methods fail with develop flags in product builds
Summary: Changed 'get*VMFlag' to return all flags. Added methods 'isLockedVMFlag' and 'isConstantVMFlag' and adapted tests.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, sla

8059100: SIGSEGV VirtualMemoryTracker::remove_released_region
Summary: Disallow increasing native memory tracking level
Reviewed-by: hseigel, ctornqvi, gtriantafill

8049599: MetaspaceGC::_capacity_until_GC can overflow
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank

8058495: G1: normalize names for isHumongous() and friends
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso

8057752: WhiteBox extension support for testing
Summary: Refactored parts of whitebox.cpp to enable registration of whitebox methods defined outside this file.
Reviewed-by: mikael, ctornqvi, jmasa

8055098: WB API should be extended to provide information about size and age of object.
Summary: Extend the WhiteBox API to provide information about the size and age of objects. Further add a mechanism to trigger a young GC.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, sjohanss
Contributed-by: Leonid Mesnik <leonid.mesnik@oracle.com>

8054818: Refactor HeapRegionSeq to manage heap region and auxiliary data
Summary: Let HeapRegionSeq manage the heap region and auxiliary data to decrease the amount of responsibilities of G1CollectedHeap, and encapsulate this work from other code.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa, mgerdin, brutisso

Merge

8054823: Add size_t as a valid VM flag type
Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov, sla

8046598: Scalable Native memory tracking development
Summary: Enhance scalability of native memory tracking
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi, gtriantafill

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

8049421: G1 Class Unloading after completing a concurrent mark cycle
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ehelin, brutisso, coleenp, roland, iveresov
Contributed-by: stefan.karlsson@oracle.com, mikael.gerdin@oracle.com

8049420: Backout 8048248 to correct attribution
Reviewed-by: ehelin, brutisso

8048248: G1 Class Unloading after completing a concurrent mark cycle
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ehelin, brutisso, coleenp, roland, iveresov

8038756: new WB API :: get/setVMFlag
Reviewed-by: vlivanov, sla

8032970: Add stack size check methods to WhiteBox API
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, iignatyev
Contributed-by: kirill.shirokov@oracle.com

Merge

8023461: Thread holding lock at safepoint that vm can block on: MethodCompileQueue_lock
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Merge

8038654: Separate SymbolTable and StringTable code
Summary: Refactor stringTable class out of symbolTable, making sure all includes are minimal set and are sorted.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

8037816: Fix for 8036122 breaks build with Xcode5/clang
Summary: Repaired or selectively disabled offending formats; future-proofed with additional checking
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, stefank

8039597: WhiteBox :: clean type profiling data
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

8038240: new WB API to get nmethod
Reviewed-by: morris, kvn

8035857: Add tests to verify correctness of operations with BMI1 and LZCNT instructions
Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn, iignatyev
Contributed-by: filipp.zhinkin@oracle.com

Merge

8028785: [parfait] warnings from b116 for hotspot.src.share.vm.prims: JNI exception pending
Summary: added JNI exception pending check in several files under src/share/vm/prims directory
Reviewed-by: coleenp, minqi

8028254: gc/arguments/TestMinInitialErgonomics.java failed with unexpected initial heap size
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl, sjohanss

Merge

8016309: assert(eden_size > 0 && survivor_size > 0) failed: just checking
7057939: jmap shows MaxNewSize=4GB when Java is using parallel collector
Summary: Major cleanup of the collectorpolicy classes
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jcoomes

8027237: New tests on ReservedSpace/VirtualSpace classes
Summary: Three tests added: 1) test stressing VirtualSpace by resizing it constantly 2) test running unit tests in several threads 3) test checking protected area in ReservedHeapSpace class
Reviewed-by: stefank, zgu
Contributed-by: aleksey.timofeev@oracle.com

8010722: assert: failed: heap size is too big for compressed oops
Summary: Use conservative assumptions of required alignment for the various garbage collector components into account when determining the maximum heap size that supports compressed oops. Using this conservative value avoids several circular dependencies in the calculation.
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes

8020829: JT_HS: 2 runtime NMT tests fail on platforms if NMT detail is not supported
Summary: Make tests query a new WhiteBox API to see if NMT detail is supported, and behave properly if it is not supported.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

8022832: Add WB APIs for OSR compilation
Reviewed-by: kvn

8013057: assert(_needs_gc || SafepointSynchronize::is_at_safepoint()) failed: only read at safepoint
Summary: Detect mmap() commit failures in Linux and Solaris os::commit_memory() impls and call vm_exit_out_of_memory(). Add os::commit_memory_or_exit(). Also tidy up some NMT accounting and some mmap() return value checking.
Reviewed-by: zgu, stefank, dholmes, dsamersoff

8013726: runtime/memory/ReserveMemory.java fails due to 'assert(bytes % os::vm_allocation_granularity() == 0) failed: reserve block size'
Summary: Fix regression test to work on all platforms
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, dholmes

8006088: Incompatible heap size flags accepted by VM
Summary: Make processing of minimum, initial and maximum heap size more intiutive by removing previous limitations on allowed values, and make error reporting consistent. Further, fix errors in ergonomic heap sizing.
Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm, tamao

Merge

8012337: Change Whitebox implementation to make absence of method in Whitebox.class not fatal
Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

8012015: Use PROT_NONE when reserving memory
Summary: Reserved memory had PROT_READ+PROT_WRITE access on Linux/bsd, now changed to PROT_NONE.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ctornqvi

8011773: Some tests on Interned String crashed JVM with OOM
Summary: Instead of terminating the VM, throw OutOfMemoryError exceptions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Merge

8011971: WB API doesn't accept j.l.reflect.Constructor
Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Merge

Merge

8007288: Additional WB API for compiler's testing
Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

8009125: Add NMT tests for Virtual Memory operations
Summary: Tests added for Reserve/Commit/Uncommit/Unreserve operations
Reviewed-by: zgu, mgerdin

8009763: Add WB test for String.intern()
Summary: Add convenience method in StringTable, add WhiteBox method and simple sanity test
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, zgu
Contributed-by: leonid.mesnik@oracle.com

8006683: Add WhiteBox API to testing of compiler
Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Merge

8005915: Unify SERIALGC and INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS
Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

8005012: Add WB APIs to better support NMT testing
Summary: Add WB API functions to enable better NMT testing
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu

6964458: Reimplement class meta-data storage to use native memory
Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: jmasa <jon.masamitsu@oracle.com>, stefank <stefan.karlsson@oracle.com>, mgerdin <mikael.gerdin@oracle.com>, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

7178703: Fix handling of quoted arguments and better error messages in dcmd
Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgronlun, rbackman

7148488: Whitebox tests for the Diagnostic Framework Parser
Reviewed-by: brutisso, sla, mgerdin

7148152: Add whitebox testing API to HotSpot
Summary: Add an internal testing API to HotSpot to enable more targeted testing of vm functionality
Reviewed-by: phh, dholmes