7077312: Provide a CALL effect for instruct declaration in the ad file Summary: abstracted way to declare that the MachNode has the effect of a call (kills caller save registers, preserves callee save registers) Reviewed-by: twisti, never

7110058: change default for ScavengeRootsInCode to 2 Reviewed-by: kvn, never

7110489: C1: 64-bit tiered with ForceUnreachable: assert(reachable(src)) failed: Address should be reachable Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, twisti

7108383: JSR 292: JRuby bench_define_method_methods.rb: assert(slow_jvms != NULL) failed: miss path must not Reviewed-by: kvn, never

7112085: assert(fr.interpreter_frame_expression_stack_size()==0) failed: only handle empty stacks Summary: Move the inlinee invoke notification callback into inlinee preamble Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6890673: Eliminate allocations immediately after EA Summary: Try to eliminate allocations and related locks immediately after escape analysis. Reviewed-by: never

7003454: order constants in constant table by number of references in code Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

7105605: Use EA info to optimize pointers compare Summary: optimize pointers compare using EA information. Reviewed-by: never, twisti

7110586: C2 generates incorrect results Summary: Exact limit of empty loop calculated incorrectly. Reviewed-by: iveresov, never

7118648: disable compressed oops by default on MacOS X until 7118647 is fixed Summary: UseCompressedOops is false by default on MacOS X; can still be set manually Reviewed-by: jmelvin, kvn, dholmes