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

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

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

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

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

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

8068503: ppc64: Encode/Decode nodes for disjoint cOops mode
Reviewed-by: simonis

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

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

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

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

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