8198515: Extract SoftReferencePolicy code out of CollectorPolicy Reviewed-by: pliden, sjohanss

8198511: Move allocation functions from GenCollectorPolicy to GenCollectedHeap Reviewed-by: pliden, sjohanss

8198509: Move satisfy_failed_metadata_allocation out from CollectorPolicy Reviewed-by: sjohanss, pliden

8198507: Remove CollectorPolicy::create_rem_set Reviewed-by: pliden, tschatzl

8198373: Remove CollectorPolicy::is/as functions Reviewed-by: sjohanss, pliden

8197868: VS2017 (C2065) 'timezone': Undeclared Identifier in share/runtime/os.cpp Summary: Change to use the functional version of _get_timezone for VS2017. Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel Contributed-by: kim.barrett@oracle.com, lois.foltan@oracle.com

8198286: Direct memory accessors in typeArrayOop.hpp should use Access API Reviewed-by: pliden, rkennke

8197859: VS2017 Complains about UINTPTR_MAX definition in globalDefinitions_VisCPP.hpp Summary: Use <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> on Windows instead of emulation. Reviewed-by: coleenp, lfoltan, gtriantafill

8197827: [windows] Small cleanups after JDK-8185712 Reviewed-by: zgu, dholmes

8068593: Remove or repurpose unused PerfCounters from objectMonitor Reviewed-by: redestad, dcubed

8184289: Obsolete -XX:+UnsyncloadClass and -XX:+MustCallLoadClassInternal options Summary: Add comments, fix a small issue with the boot loader, and add an assert. Reviewed-by: coleenp, alanb, acorn, dholmes

8197999: Accessors in typeArrayOopDesc should use new Access API Reviewed-by: eosterlund, pliden

8198287: Cleanup ElfFile usage in whitebox.cpp Summary: Removed redundant include of elfFile.hpp Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

8198225: os::attempt_reserve_memory_at records memory as committed Reviewed-by: shade, zgu, stuefe

8196405: [REDO] NMT: add_committed_regions doesn't merge succeeding regions Reviewed-by: eosterlund, coleenp, zgu