8036100: Default method returns true for a while, and then returns false Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

8025842: Convert warning("Thread holding lock at safepoint that vm can block on") to fatal(...) Reviewed-by: iveresov, roland, coleenp

8035828: Turn on @Stable support in VM Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

8035887: VM crashes trying to force inlining the recursive call Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8031818: Experimental VM flag for enforcing safe object construction Summary: -XX:+AlwaysSafeConstructors to unconditionally emit the trailing constructor barrier. Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

8033380: Experimental VM flag to enforce access atomicity Summary: -XX:+AlwaysAtomicAccesses to unconditionally enforce the access atomicity. Reviewed-by: roland, kvn, iveresov

8007270: Make IsMethodCompilable test work with tiered Summary: Only c2 compiles counts toward cutoff Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

8035946: Use ResourceHashtable for dependency checking Summary: Use ResourceHashtable for dependency checking and delete GenericHashtable Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

8033990: Add message to verbose output to indicate when JVM was unable to use shared archive (with -Xshare:auto) Summary: Added message to indicate when sharing was attempted but failed Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi

8036122: Fix warning 'format not a string literal' Reviewed-by: mduigou, kvn