8179302: Pre-resolve constant pool string entries and cache resolved_reference arrays in CDS archive.
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
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

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

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

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

8171008: Integrate AOT compiler into JDK
Reviewed-by: erikj, mchung, twisti, simonis

8169069: Module system implementation refresh (11/2016)
Reviewed-by: alanb, mchung
Contributed-by: alan.bateman@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com

8163984: Fix license and copyright headers in jdk9 under test/lib
Reviewed-by: dholmes
Contributed-by: Stanislav Smirnov <stanislav.smirnov@oracle.com>

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

Merge

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: kbarrett, iignatyev

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

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

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: alanb, mchung, tbell
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, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, chris.hegarty@oracle.com, christian.tornqvist@oracle.com, harold.seigel@oracle.com, igor.ignatyev@oracle.com, james.laskey@oracle.com, jean-francois.denise@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

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

Merge

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

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

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

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

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

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

8098821: Crash in system dictionary initialization with shared strings
Summary: map string regions after the compressed class base is known
Reviewed-by: iklam, dcubed, coleenp

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

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: test for auxiliary data in G1 fails as they cannot precisely measure this aux data size. I've added whitebox method to get this size.
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

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

8067972: Bring changes made to WhiteBox.java in 8047290 to that file new location in the top repo
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

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

8066433: Move Whitebox test library to top level repository
Summary: Moved Whitebox test library to top level repository.
Reviewed-by: iignatyev, sla, mr