8164002: Add a new CPU family (S_family) for SPARC S7 and above processors
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ecaspole, kvn

8157141: Fix for JDK-8031290 is unnecessarily fragile
8166454: meminfo(2) has been available since Solaris 9
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kbarrett

8134119: Use new API to get cache line sizes
Summary: Using new sysconf and sysinfo API on Solaris 12, avoid using libpicl and libkstat.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Merge

8145714: [JVMCI] SPARC broken after JDK-8134994
Reviewed-by: kvn

8133023: ParallelGCThreads is not calculated correctly
Reviewed-by: kbarrett, tschatzl, sangheki, dholmes

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

8073583: C2 support for CRC32C on SPARC
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn
Contributed-by: james.cheng@oracle.com

8076968: PICL based initialization of L2 cache line size on some SPARC systems is incorrect
Summary: Chcek both l2-dcache-line-size and l2-cache-line-size properties to determine the size of the line
Reviewed-by: kvn

8056124: Hotspot should use PICL interface to get cacheline size on SPARC
Summary: Using libpicl to get L1 data and L2 cache line sizes
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, morris

8035968: Leverage CPU Instructions to Improve SHA Performance on SPARC
Summary: Add C2 SHA intrinsics on SPARC
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: james.cheng@oracle.com

8031290: Adjust call to getisax() for additional words returned
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, twisti

8002074: Support for AES on SPARC
Summary: Add intrinsics/stub routines support for single-block and multi-block (as used by Cipher Block Chaining mode) AES encryption and decryption operations on the SPARC platform.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@oracle.com

8029233: Update copyright year to match last edit in jdk8 hotspot repository for 2013
Summary: Copyright year updated for files modified during 2013
Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

8029190: VM_Version::determine_features() asserts on Fujitsu Sparc64 CPUs
Summary: fix code to allow testing on Fujitsu Sparc64 CPUs
Reviewed-by: kvn

8008407: remove SPARC V8 support
Summary: Removed most of the SPARC V8 instructions
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

7188176: The JVM should differentiate between T and M series and adjust GC ergonomics
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: Tao Mao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

7188227: VM should recognize M-series SPARC
Summary: Check kstat data for SPARC-M.
Reviewed-by: roland

7059037: Use BIS for zeroing on T4
Summary: Use BIS for zeroing new allocated big (2Kb and more) objects and arrays.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, ysr

7079329: Adjust allocation prefetching for T4
Summary: on T4 2 BIS instructions should be issued to prefetch 64 bytes
Reviewed-by: iveresov, phh, twisti

7063628: Use cbcond on T4
Summary: Add new short branch instruction to Hotspot sparc assembler.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jrose

7006505: Use kstat info to identify SPARC processor
Summary: read Solaris kstat data to get more precise CPU information
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never, twisti, dholmes

6961690: load oops from constant table on SPARC
Summary: oops should be loaded from the constant table of an nmethod instead of materializing them with a long code sequence.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

6989984: Use standard include model for Hospot
Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

6987135: Performance regression on Intel platform with 32-bits edition between 6u13 and 6u14.
Summary: Use hardware DIV instruction for long division by constant when it is faster than code with multiply.
Reviewed-by: never

6941466: Oracle rebranding changes for Hotspot repositories
Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

6378821: bitCount() should use POPC on SPARC processors and AMD+10h
Summary: bitCount() should use POPC on SPARC processors where POPC is implemented directly in hardware.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6812587: Use auxv to determine SPARC hardware features on Solaris
Summary: A similar function to getisax(2) should be used to determine all possible instruction set extensions.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

6719955: Update copyright year
Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

6362677: Change parallel GC collector default number of parallel GC threads.
Summary: Use the same default number of GC threads as used by ParNewGC and ConcMarkSweepGC (i.e., the 5/8th rule).
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

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