8016729: ObjectAlignmentInBytes=16 now forces the use of heap based compressed oops
8005933: The -Xshare:auto option is ignored for -server
Move klass metaspace above the heap and support CDS with compressed klass ptrs.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, mgerdin, tschatzl, stefank
Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Co-authored-by: Stefan Karlsson <stefan.karlsson@oracle.com>
Co-authored-by: Mikael Gerdin <mikael.gerdin@oracle.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Rodriguez <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Materialize the pointer to the polling page in a register instead of using rip-relative addressing when the distance from the code cache is larger than disp32.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn