[7u] Request for approval for bulk integration of hs24-b48

[Alejandro E Murillo]

Requesting approval to integrate hs24-b48 into jdk7u40-b29.

A webrev is available at:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~amurillo/7u40/hs24-b48-jdk7u40-b29.webrev/

Pre-integration testing is in progress; the integration will proceed
only after SQE has analyzed the results and approved.

The fixes in the proposed integration are below.  All have undergone
nightly testing and are already in a jdk8 repository.

7176479: G1: JVM crashes on T5-8 system with 1.5 TB heap
8009302: Mac OS X: JVM crash on infinite recursion on Appkit Thread
8014408: G1: crashes with assert assert(prev_committed_card_num == _committed_max_card_num) failed
8014669: arch specific flags not passed to some link commands
8015689: new hotspot build - hs24-b48

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Alejandro