Summary: Add classLoader to java/lang/Class instance for fast access
Reviewed-by: alanb, lfoltan, rriggs, vlivanov, twisti, jfranck

Summary: Write klass and resolved_references constant pool fields lock free.
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Summary: Delete old jdk specific code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu, lfoltan

8041623: Solaris Studio 12.4 C++ 5.13, CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS use of class oop's copy constructor definitions causing error level diagnostic.
Summary: Fix several minor compilation issues with volatile oops for CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS support.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

Summary: Don't assert if one of classes in hierarhy was redefined
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: roland, vlivanov

Summary: Access to method_type and appendix from constant pool (cpcache) needs to be guarded by is_f1_null() because of racy update/initialization.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, jrose

Summary: Only walk methods in instanceklass if the class is loaded
Reviewed-by: dholmes, fparain

Summary: Relax the guaranty for deleted methods
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Only prune metaspace virtual spaces at safepoint so walking them is safe outside a safepoint.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, mgronlun, hseigel, stefank

Summary: The fix removes all UseNewReflection/ReflectionWrapResolutionErrors occurrences/logic and adds them into the list of obsolete_jvm_flags in arguments.cpp.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel
Contributed-by: ygaevsky@azulsystems.com

Summary: Repaired or selectively disabled offending formats; future-proofed with additional checking
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, stefank

Reviewed-by: twisti, stefank

Summary: fixes compilation replay with new profiling points
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Refactor stringTable class out of symbolTable, making sure all includes are minimal set and are sorted.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

8023697: failed class resolution reports different class name in detail message for the first and subsequent times
Summary: Cache detail message when we cache exception for constant pool resolution.
Reviewed-by: acorn, twisti, jrose

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, stefank, twisti

Summary: The EnableInvokeDynamic flag and all support code is removed because it is not longer used in JDK 9.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NTobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: coleenp, ehelin

Summary: profiling code in interpreter broken when argument profiling is off.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

8033150: invokestatic: IncompatibleClassChangeError trying to invoke static method from a parent in presence of conflicting defaults.
Summary: A static method should be preferred during method resolution over an overpass, search the current class as well as its superclasses.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, kamg

Summary: Keep class in CLD::_klasses list and mirror created for CDS classes if OOM during restore_shareable_info(). This keeps pointers consistent for CMS.
Reviewed-by: ehelin, stefank, jmasa, iklam

Summary: remove speculative traps that point to methods that are redefined
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: make PrintMethodData a diagnostic options for performance investigation
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: feed profiling data about reference nullness to type speculation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Use RTM for inflated locks and stack locks.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti, roland, dcubed

8012125: Comments for ConstantPoolCache should reflect the addition of resolved_references in ConstantPool
Summary: Updated comments in metadata header files, and renamed this_oop variables to this_cp or this_k when referring to constant pool or classes.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Introduce code aging for warm method detection
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

8035841: assert(dp_src->tag() == dp_dst->tag()) failed: should be same tags 1 != 0 at ciMethodData.cpp:90
Summary: concurrent update of traps with construction of ciMethodData
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Call is_metadata instead which does less work for the call in debugInfo.hpp which is called for all compiled code stack frames.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, dcubed

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, pliden

Reviewed-by: dcubed, mgronlun

8031752: Failed speculative optimizations should be reattempted when root of compilation is different
Summary: support for speculative traps that keep track of the root of the compilation in which a trap occurs.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

4505697: nsk/jdi/ExceptionEvent/_itself_/exevent006 and exevent008 tests fail with InvocationTargetException
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Remove search in system dictionary and hacks, replace with verifying in CLD::_klasses list.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn

Summary: remove_osr_nmethod doesn't check that it is the correct method
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov