[7u14] Request for approval for bulk integration of hs24-b37

[Alejandro E Murillo]

Requesting approval to integrate hs24-b37 into jdk7u14-b18.

A webrev is available at:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~amurillo/7u14/hs24-b37-jdk7u14-b18.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.

8008257: NMT: assert(new_rec->is_allocation_record()) failed when running with shared memory option
8008790: Promotion failed tracing event for all GCs
8008918: Reference statistics events for the tracing framework
8009232: Improve stats gathering code for reference processor
8010084: Race in runtime/NMT/BaselineWithParameter.java
8010103: new hotspot build - hs24-b37
8010227: Remove promotion failed boolean from YC event
8010289: PSParallelCompact::marking_phase should use instance GCTracer

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Alejandro