8176100: [REDO][REDO] G1 Needs pre barrier on dereference of weak JNI handles
Reviewed-by: kbarrett, coleenp, tschatzl

8176054: [BACKOUT][REDO] G1 Needs pre barrier on dereference of weak JNI handles
Reviewed-by: kbarrett, mgerdin

8175085: [REDO] G1 Needs pre barrier on dereference of weak JNI handles
Reviewed-by: kbarrett, dcubed, tschatzl

8175086: [BACKOUT] fix for JDK-8166188
Reviewed-by: kbarrett, jwilhelm, dcubed

8166188: G1 Needs pre barrier on dereference of weak JNI handles
Summary: Add low tag to jweaks and G1 barrier for jweak loads.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, mdoerr, pliden, dlong, dcubed, coleenp, aph, tschatzl
Contributed-by: kim.barrett@oracle.com, martin.doerr@sap.com, volker.simonis@sap.com

8171266: PPC64: Add support to -XX:RTMSpinLoopCount=0
Reviewed-by: mdoerr, dholmes

8170991: PPC64: Bad code for initialization of short arrays
Summary: Implement special ClearArray nodes to improve initialization.
Reviewed-by: goetz

8168083: PPC64: Cleanup template interpreter after 8154580 and 8154867
Reviewed-by: goetz, coleenp

8164920: ppc: enhancement of CRC32 intrinsic
Reviewed-by: goetz, mdoerr
Contributed-by: Hiroshi H Horii <horii@jp.ibm.com>

8159976: PPC64: Add missing intrinsics for sub-word atomics
Reviewed-by: shade, goetz

8156923: [ppc] Implement "JEP 270: Reserved Stack Areas for Critical Sections".
Reviewed-by: simonis, dholmes

8141635: Implement VarHandles/Unsafe intrinsics on POWER
Reviewed-by: shade, kvn, simonis

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

8149655: PPC64: Implement CompactString intrinsics
Reviewed-by: goetz, kvn

Merge

8148047: Move the vtable length field to Klass
Reviewed-by: cjplummer, twisti, coleenp, kbarrett

8147461: Use byte offsets for vtable start and vtable length offsets
Reviewed-by: cjplummer, coleenp, dnsimon

8147937: Adapt SAP copyrights to new company name.
Reviewed-by: simonis, stuefe

8145336: PPC64: fix string intrinsics after CompactStrings change
Reviewed-by: mdoerr, aph, kvn

Merge

8146613: PPC64: C2 does no longer respect int to long conversion for stub calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, goetz

Merge

8145117: PPC64: Remove cpp interpreter implementation
Reviewed-by: coleenp, mdoerr

8144019: PPC64 C1: Introduce Client Compiler
Reviewed-by: goetz

8143014: Access PtrQueue member offsets through derived classes
Summary: Moved accessors to derived classes and updated callers.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, jmasa, twisti

Merge

8139421: PPC64LE: MacroAssembler::bxx64_patchable kill register R12
Summary: Register R12 must be preserved for stub calls (e.g. deopt handler).
Reviewed-by: goetz

8080775: Better argument formatting for assert() and friends
Reviewed-by: kbarrett, pliden

8072817: CardTableExtension kind() should be BarrierSet::CardTableExtension
Summary: Use BarrierSet::CardTableForRS where needed, and update concrete bs tags.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa

8131048: ppc: implement CRC32 intrinsic
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis
Contributed-by: lutz.schmidt@sap.com

8130653: ppc: implement MultiplyToLen intrinsic
Reviewed-by: simonis
Contributed-by: peter.januschke@sap.com

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

8077838: Recent developments for ppc.
Summary: Power 8 recognition and instructions, math.*Exact intrinsics and rtm, C2 optimizations
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis

8069016: Add BarrierSet downcast support
Summary: Add FakeRttiSupport utility and use to provide barrier_set_cast.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, sangheki

8066964: ppc64: argument and return type profiling, fix problem with popframe
Reviewed-by: roland, kvn

8059592: Recent bugfixes in ppc64 port.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

8048169: Change 8037816 breaks HS build on PPC64 and CPP-Interpreter platforms
Summary: Fix the matching of format string parameter types to the actual argument types for the PPC64 and CPP-Interpreter files in the same way as 8037816 already did it for all the other files
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp, dholmes

8037915: PPC64/AIX: Several smaller fixes
Reviewed-by: kvn

8036976: PPC64: implement the template interpreter
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp
Contributed-by: axel.siebenborn@sap.com, martin.doerr@sap.com

8035647: PPC64: Support for elf v2 abi.
Summary: ELFv2 ABI used by the little endian PowerPC64 on Linux.
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: asmundak@google.com

8031319: PPC64: Some fixes in ppc and aix coding.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8029940: PPC64 (part 122): C2 compiler port
Reviewed-by: kvn

8028471: PPC64 (part 215): opto: Extend ImplicitNullCheck optimization.
Summary: Fixed Implicit NULL check optimization for AIX, where the page at address '0' is only write-protected.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8027968: Adapt PPC to 8024927: Nashorn performance regression with CompressedOops
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn

8027965: Adapt PPC to 8015107: NPG: Use consistent naming for metaspace concepts
Reviewed-by: dholmes

8024379: Adapt PPC64 port to 8003424
Reviewed-by: coleenp

8019972: PPC64 (part 9): platform files for interpreter only VM.
Summary: With this change the HotSpot core build works on Linux/PPC64. The VM succesfully executes simple test programs.
Reviewed-by: kvn