8150785: (bf) Hoist slice and duplicate methods up to java.nio.Buffer
Reviewed-by: alanb, rriggs, chegar

8149469: ByteBuffer API and implementation enhancements for VarHandles
Reviewed-by: chegar, alanb

8132478: [tidy] three new warnings from java docs (java.net, javax.annotation)
Summary: minor docs cleanup (jdk part)
Reviewed-by: lancea

8133459: replace <tt> tags (obsolete in html5) in java.nio docs
Reviewed-by: lancea

8065556: (bf) Buffer.position and other methods should include detail in IAE
Summary: Add messages to IAEs which have none.
Reviewed-by: alanb

8076112: Add @HotSpotIntrinsicCandidate annotation to indicate methods for which Java Runtime has intrinsics
Summary: Annotate possibly intrinsified methods with @HotSpotIntrinsicCandidate. Add checks omitted by intrinsics to the library code. Add CheckIntrinsics flags to check consistency of intrinsics.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, thartmann, vlivanov, abuckley, darcy, ascarpino, briangoetz, alanb, aph, dnsimon

4774077: Use covariant return types in the NIO buffer hierarchy
Reviewed-by: psandoz, alanb, mr, darcy

8054834: Modular Source Code
Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar, ihse, mduigou
Contributed-by: alan.bateman@oracle.com, alex.buckley@oracle.com, chris.hegarty@oracle.com, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, karen.kinnear@oracle.com, magnus.ihse.bursie@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, mark.reinhold@oracle.com, paul.sandoz@oracle.com