8157181: Compilers accept modification of final fields outside initializer methods Summary: Track initialized final field updates; disable constant folding if an update is detected. Enforce final field update rules introduced by JVMS-7 (but only for JDK 9). Reviewed-by: vlivanov, dnsimon, forax, never, kvn, coleenp

8158232: PPC64: improve byte, int and long array copy stubs by using VSX instructions Reviewed-by: goetz, mdoerr Contributed-by: Michihiro Horie <horie@jp.ibm.com>

8157726: VarHandles/Unsafe should support sub-word atomic ops Reviewed-by: psandoz, vlivanov, lagergren

8159244: Partially initialized string object created by C2's string concat optimization may escape Summary: Emit release barrier after String creation to prevent partially initialized object from escaping. Reviewed-by: kvn

8158360: C1: SEGV in generated code Summary: update test to store Object fields Reviewed-by: kvn

8159282: quarantine compiler/jvmci/compilerToVM/ReprofileTest.java Reviewed-by: iignatyev

Merge

8160088: update hotspot tests depending on GC to use @requires vm.gc.X Reviewed-by: iignatyev, mchernov, dholmes

8160102: Typo in message for NULL memory size arguments in diagnosticArgument.cpp Reviewed-by: dholmes, rehn

Merge

8157758: JDK9 does not compile on Linux with GCC 6.1 because left-shifting a negative number has undefined behavior Summary: Replace shifts of -1 with shifts of ~0u. Reviewed-by: kbarrett, mockner Contributed-by: alexhenrie24@gmail.com

8160189: Fix for 8159335 breaks AArch64 Reviewed-by: kvn

8155099: Remove duplicate comments from G1Policy Reviewed-by: jmasa, drwhite

Merge

8152438: Threads may do significant work out of the non-shared overflow buffer Summary: Before processing an element in the non-shared overflow buffer, try to push it into the local shared buffer to keep it full. Reviewed-by: jmasa, ehelin, sjohanss

8159370: Add FlagGuard for easier modification of flags for unit tests Reviewed-by: kbarrett, jwilhelm