8173848: realpath is unsafe Summary: Fix occurrences of realpath in hotspot to use safe POSIX.1-2008 form. Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, dholmes, clanger

8155094: Add logging for long lasting methods found in JDK-8152948 Summary: Adds logging for DerivedPointerTable, TLAB preparation and resizing, and new collection set setup work Reviewed-by: kbarrett, sangheki

8155672: Remove instanceKlassHandles and KlassHandles Summary: Summary: Use unhandled pointers for Klass and InstanceKlass, remove handles with no implementation. Reviewed-by: dholmes, lfoltan, vlivanov, sspitsyn

8168467: Use TaskEntry as task mark queue elements Summary: Change the mark stack to use TaskEntry queue elements to improve type safety instead of casting around raw pointers. Reviewed-by: kbarrett, sangheki

Merge

8159734: Consistency check fails with -XX:-ProfileInterpreter Summary: Re-establish the consistency of profiling information also with -XX:-ProfileInterpreter. Reviewed-by: kvn

8176441: assert(false) failed: modified node was not processed by IGVN.transform_old() Summary: The shiftNode needs to be added to the IGVN worklist after being modified. Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

8005165: Remove CPU-dependent code in self-patching vtables Reviewed-by: coleenp, stuefe, jiangli

8175300: Enable artifact resolution for jtreg tests Reviewed-by: ihse, gtriantafill

8172514: Stop checking for duplicate packages in the JVM_DefineModule() package list Summary: Use GrowableArray append() instead of append_if_missing() to stop searching for duplicates Reviewed-by: redestad, coleenp, dholmes, gtriantafill

8164038: Missing volatile keyword at CardTableRS::write_ref_field_gc_par() Reviewed-by: tschatzl, kbarrett

8176140: 8176140-Crashes-or-timeouts-during-error-reporting-may-lead-to-infinitely-repeated-error-logs-until-ErrorLogTimeout-is-hit Reviewed-by: cjplummer, dholmes

8165674: G1CMMarkStack::out_of_memory possibly redundant Summary: Remove the redundant G1CMMarkStack::_out_of_memory member. Reviewed-by: kbarrett, tschatzl

Merge