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

Merge

8028580: PPC64 (part 114/120): Support for Call nodes with constants. Summary: extends MachCall nodes so that they can issue constants to the constant table Reviewed-by: kvn

8028514: PPC64: Fix C++ Interpreter after '7195622: CheckUnhandledOops has limited usefulness now' Summary: fix CPP-interpreter after CheckUnhandledOops was re-enabled in the fastdebug build Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, lfoltan

8028470: PPC64 (part 214): linux: extend signal handler to catch SIGTRAP on ppc64. Reviewed-by: kvn

8028401: PPC (part 117): Improve usability of adlc and format() functionality. Summary: Add additional, more verbose syntax checks in adlc. Fix printing constant's problem in format(). Reviewed-by: kvn

Merge

8024921: PPC64 (part 113): Extend Load and Store nodes to know about memory ordering Summary: Add a field to C2 LoadNode and StoreNode classes which indicates whether the load/store should do an acquire/release on platforms which support it. Reviewed-by: kvn

8003854: PPC64 (part 115): Introduce PostallocExpand that expands nodes after register allocation Summary: added ability in C2 to expand mach nodes to several mach nodes after register allocation Reviewed-by: kvn

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

8027969: Adapt PPC to 8026328: Setting a breakpoint on invokedynamic crashes the JVM Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, sspitsyn

8027966: Adapt PPC to 8023657: New type profiling points: arguments to call Reviewed-by: dholmes