8076094: CheckCastPPNode::Value() has outdated logic for constants Summary: outdated logic for constants in CheckCastPPNode::Value() Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

8076532: Fix format warning/error in methodHandles_ppc.cpp Reviewed-by: dholmes

8074981: Integer/FP scalar reduction optimization Summary: Add scalar reduction optimization to C2 to take advantage of vector instructions in modern x86 CPUs. Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti Contributed-by: michael.c.berg@intel.com

8075587: Compilation of constant array containing different sub classes crashes the JVM Summary: meet of 2 constant arrays result in bottom Reviewed-by: kvn

8026049: (bf) Intrinsify ByteBuffer.put{Int, Double, Float, ...} methods Summary: Use unaligned Unsafe loads and stores for ByteBuffer access on platforms which support unaligned access. Add intrinsics for Unsafe.{get,put}-X-Unaligned methods. Reviewed-by: dholmes, jrose, psandoz, kvn

8075921: assert assert(allocx == alloc) fails in library_call.cpp Summary: control becomes top after arraycopy guards and confuses tighly coupled allocation logic Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Merge

8075922: assert(t == t_no_spec) fails in phaseX.cpp Summary: subgraph becomes dead RegionNode::Ideal() but is not destroyed Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

8075214: SIGSEGV in nmethod sweeping Summary: Changed implementation of forceNMethodSweep() to request sweep from existing sweeper thread. Reviewed-by: kvn, mgerdin, dholmes

Merge