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

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

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, stefank, twisti

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

Summary: memory ordering fixes in GC and other runtime code showing on PPC64.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Create extra constant pool cache entries for invokespecial/InterfaceMethodref to hold the alternate resolution.
Reviewed-by: jrose, lfoltan, hseigel

Summary: Revert changes in JDK-8008962
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Enable CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS in fastdebug builds across all supported platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, dholmes, stefank, twisti, ihse, rdurbin
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Enhance method resolution and resulting data structures, plus some refactoring.
Reviewed-by: twisti, acorn, jrose

Summary: Added dumping of object sizes in CDS archive, sorted by MetaspaceObj::Type
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: Re-use InstanceKlass::_init_lock locking ConstantPool as well.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn

Summary: Zero metadata in constructors, not in allocation (and some in constructors)
Reviewed-by: jmasa, sspitsyn

Summary: Add/refine new tracing support using -XX:TraceRedefineClasses=16384.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, sspitsyn

Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Change types of above methods and field to InstanceKlass and remove unneeded casts from the source files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

8001658: No need to pass resolved_references as argument to ConstantPoolCacheEntry::set_method_handle_common
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NBharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, jmasa, kvn

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: NJohn Rose &lt;john.r.rose@oracle.com&gt;, Christian Thalinger &lt;christian.thalinger@oracle.com&gt;, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

Summary: Should print to passed in stream not tty
Reviewed-by: dholmes, never
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

Summary: Removed.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, brutisso

Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add JVM_CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic records to constant pool to determine per-instruction BSMs.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: split MethodHandle.invoke into invokeExact and invokeGeneric; also clean up JVM-to-Java interfaces
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Fix several crashers, remove needless paths for boxed-style bootstrap method call, refactor & simplify APIs for rewriter constantPoolOop, remove sun.dyn.CallSiteImpl
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never