8062672: JVM crashes during GC on various asserts which checks that HeapWord ptr is an oop Summary: Crashes were caused by not disabling UseMemSetInBOT as should be done on sparc. Added support for picking up blkinit as a platform feature if available on Linux sparc. This is needed to avoid enabling UseMemSetInBOT when running on this platform. Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso

Merge

8073543: Circular include dependency between psScavenge.inline.hpp and psPromotionManager.inline.hpp Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

8071822: [TEST_BUG] Adapt collectorPolicy internal tests to support 64K pages Summary: This fixes jtreg test ExecuteInternalVMTests.java for OSes with bigger default page sizes. Reviewed-by: jmasa

Merge

Merge

8073554: Remove unnecessary includes of markSweep[.inline].hpp Reviewed-by: tschatzl, coleenp

8058446: G1 Hot card cache should use ArrayAllocator to allocate the cache array Summary: Allocate large hot card caches using OS functions instead of the C heap to avoid native memory exhaustion. Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jwilhelm

8073532: jmap -heap fails after generation array removal Summary: Fix field accessor code in the SA Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso

8073389: Remove the include of resourceArea.hpp from classFileParser.hpp Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

8061802: REDO - Remove the generations array Summary: The _gens array is removed and replaced by explicit _young_gen and _old_gen variables. Reviewed-by: kbarrett, mgerdin

8073388: Get rid of the depenecy from handles.hpp to oop.inline.hpp Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp

Merge

8072055: Argument checking for SE Embedded and ARM should be moved out of arguments.cpp Reviewed-by: bdelsart, dlong, hseigel, coleenp

8072904: building jdk9 with jdk9 boot jdk can cause failure or incorrect results Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong