Summary: collection of small changes to prepare for incremental inlining.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Removed will_link and changed all calls to is_loaded().
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use new x86 AES instructions for AESCrypt.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, roland
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

Summary: Deleted placement new operator of Node - node(size_t, Compile *, int).
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com

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>

7192406: JSR 292: C2 needs exact return type information for invokedynamic and invokehandle call sites
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Added new FormatBufferResource class to use thread's resource area for error message buffer.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: Allow fallback to non-intrinsic inline case
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, never
Contributed-by: nils.eliasson@oracle.com

7108383: JSR 292: JRuby bench_define_method_methods.rb: assert(slow_jvms != NULL) failed: miss path must not
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

Summary: don't skip receiver when GC'ing compiled invokedynamic callsites
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, never

7042122: JSR 292: adjust various inline thresholds for JSR 292 API methods and method handle adapters
Reviewed-by: jrose, never, kvn

Summary: catch errors during the compile-time processing of method handles; back out cleanly
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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

6987634: JSR 292 assert(start_bci() >= 0 && start_bci() < code_size()) failed: correct osr_bci argument
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

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

Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Clear the total count when a receiver information is cleared.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Fix incorrect marking of methods as not compilable.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Put all inline-related switches into product mode, to allow tuning by dynamic language implementors.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: C2 needs some additional optimizations to be able to handle MethodHandle invokes and invokedynamic instructions at the best performance.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: C2 implementation for invokedynamic support.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: During the work for 6829187 we have fixed a number of basic bugs which are logically grouped with 6815692 and 6858164 but which must be reviewed and pushed separately.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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

6788527: Server vm intermittently fails with assertion "live value must not be garbage" with fastdebug bits
Summary: Cache Jvmti and DTrace flags used by Compiler.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell