8142874: [TESTBUG] OptionsValidation testing framework needs to handle VM error codes in some cases Reviewed-by: gtriantafill, stsmirno, ctornqvi, gziemski

8144885: agent/src/os/linux/libproc.h needs to support Linux/SPARC builds Summary: Added include of asm/ptrace.h to libproc.h Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, asmundak, gthornbr

Merge

8046936: JEP 270: Reserved Stack Areas for Critical Sections Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed

8144908: Remove apply_to_weak_ref_discovered_field override for UpdateRSOopClosure Reviewed-by: kbarrett, jmasa

8144701: Change three G1 remembererd set closures to be OopClosures Reviewed-by: mgerdin, stefank

8144584: Change FilterIntoCSClosure to inherit OopClosure Reviewed-by: kbarrett, mgerdin

8144505: Change G1ParCopyHelper to inherit OopClosure Reviewed-by: mgerdin, stefank

Merge

8144996: Replace the HeapRegionSetCount class with an uint Reviewed-by: brutisso, jwilhelm

8145061: Too many instances of java.lang.Boolean created in Java application (hotspot repo) Summary: Avoid creating unused instances of Long and Boolean Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

8144847: PPC64: Update Transactional Memory and Atomic::cmpxchg code Reviewed-by: stuefe, goetz

8144486: Change G1UpdateRSOrPushRefOopClosure to inherit OopClosure Reviewed-by: mgerdin, stefank

8145092: Use Unified Logging for the GC logging Summary: JEP-271. VM changes contributed by brutisso, test changes contributed by david. Reviewed-by: sjohanss, david, brutisso Contributed-by: bengt.rutisson@oracle.com, david.lindholm@oralce.com

Merge

Merge