8134626: Misc cleanups after generation array removal Reviewed-by: david, dholmes, tschatzl

8135002: Fix or remove broken links in objectMonitor.cpp comments Summary: Updated comments to refer to relevant patents. Reviewed-by: dcubed

8061999: Enhance VM option parsing to allow options to be specified in a file Summary: Add support for the "-XX:VMOptionsFile=<path>" option. Reviewed-by: dcubed, gthornbr, gziemski, ddmitriev, dholmes, coleenp

Merge

8087181: Move native jimage code to its own library (maybe libjimage) Reviewed-by: alanb, lfoltan, hseigel, acorn Contributed-by: james.laskey@oracle.com, jean-francois.denise@oracle.com, roger.riggs@oracle.com

8130823: VerifyRememberedSets is an expensive nop in product builds Reviewed-by: jmasa, tschatzl

8135012: Don't use G1RootProcessor when scanning remembered sets Reviewed-by: jmasa, ecaspole

8134857: Inconsistency in maximum TLAB/PLAB size and humongous object size Summary: Align TLAB/PLAB size with exact humongous object size threshold, not that value -1. Reviewed-by: jmasa, dfazunen

8133180: [TESTBUG] runtime/SharedArchiveFile/SharedStrings.java failed with WhiteBox.class : no such file or directory Summary: Removed ambiguity on where JarBuilder looks for classes Reviewed-by: jiangli, ctornqvi, gtriantafill

8049304: race between VM_Exit and _sync_FutileWakeups->inc() Summary: Add PerfDataManager.has_PerfData() to indicate when PerfData objects should be safe to query. Update Java monitor PerfData usage to check the new flag. PerfDataManager::destroy() should only be called at a safepoint and when the StatSampler is not active. Reviewed-by: kbarrett, dholmes, tbenson, bdelsart

8134972: [BACKOUT] GC: implement ranges (optionally constraints) for those flags that have them missing Reviewed-by: jwilhelm

8134806: Clean up write_ref_field_work Summary: Remove unnecessary pure virtual decl and default argument values. Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, tbenson, jmasa

Merge

8134856: Incorrect use of PLAB::min_size() in MaxPLABSizeBounds Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, tbenson

8134858: Remove G1 specific checking of Young/OldPLABSize in G1CollectorPolicy constructor Summary: Remove obsolete and wrong code. Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso

8066443: Add G1 support for promotion event Reviewed-by: tschatzl

8133818: Additional number of processed references printed with -XX:+PrintReferenceGC after JDK-8047125 Summary: Test contributed by brutisso Reviewed-by: tonyp, tschatzl

8129417: Oop iteration clean-up to remove oop_ms_follow_contents Reviewed-by: pliden, ehelin

8134161: JVM is creating too many GC helper threads on T7/M7 linux/sparc platform Summary: Recognize the T7/M7 platform. Reviewed-by: dcubed, kvn, jmasa

Merge

8134738: Remove CollectorPolicy::Name Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

8067341: Modify PLAB sizing algorithm to waste less Summary: Change the G1 PLAB resizing algorithm to waste less memory by being more conservative about the PLAB sizes. Reviewed-by: ecaspole, jmasa

8078555: GC: implement ranges (optionally constraints) for those flags that have them missing Summary: Add ranges and constraint functions for GC flags. Reviewed-by: jmasa, kbarrett, gziemski, ddmitriev, drwhite

Merge

Merge

8131330: G1CollectedHeap::verify_dirty_young_list fails with assert Summary: Use assembly loop to avoid compiler optimization into memset Reviewed-by: ecaspole, tschatzl

Merge

8072817: CardTableExtension kind() should be BarrierSet::CardTableExtension Summary: Use BarrierSet::CardTableForRS where needed, and update concrete bs tags. Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa