8172970: TESTBUG: need test coverage for the JVMTI functions allowed in the start phase Summary: New JTreg test provides the necessary coverage during the start phase Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

8179305: Avoid repeated calls to JavaThread::last_frame in InterpreterRuntime Summary: Added LastFrameAccessor class Reviewed-by: dlong, dholmes

8178542: G1: VM hangs during shutdown due to mark stack overflow Summary: Removed not needed call to clear_has_overflown() to avoid inconsistent state Reviewed-by: kbarrett, sangheki

8179019: Correct range checks for command-line options ArraycopySrcPrefetchDistance and ArraycopyDstPrefetchDistance Summary: Update constraint for the command-line options. Change stubs to use register values instead of immediates. Reviewed-by: kvn

Merge

8179235: PackageEntryTables should be created eagerly Summary: Create the PackageEntryTables in the constructor for ClassLoaderData. Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

Merge

8177958: Possible uninitialized char* in vm_version_solaris_sparc.cpp Reviewed-by: shade, dholmes, kevinw

8179243: [TESTBUG] CDS tests should be excluded from running with -UseCompressedOops Summary: Used at-requires statements to exclude the affected tests Reviewed-by: dholmes, jiangli, sspitsyn

8179224: Cache strlen of Flag::_name Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, jiangli, iklam, rehn

8138737: Remove oop_ms_adjust_pointers and use oop_iterate instead Reviewed-by: kbarrett, stefank

8169061: Drop os::is_MP checks from Atomics Reviewed-by: aph, dholmes