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

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: Use unknown_obj instead of empty_map for NULL or Constant Pool object constants in bytecode Escape Analyzer.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never

Summary: Fixed several EA issues with Connection Graph construction.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Currently escape analysis is turned off when EnableInvokeDynamic is true.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, kvn, dcubed

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

6896381: CTW fails share/vm/ci/bcEscapeAnalyzer.cpp:99, assert(_stack_height < _max_stack,"stack overflow")
Summary: Check constant Tag type instead of calling get_constant().
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Use GrowableArray and VectorSet allocated in ciEnv arena.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

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

Reviewed-by: twisti, dcubed

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

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

6700102: c2 assertion "counter_changed,"failed dependencies, but counter didn't change")" with AggressiveOpts
Summary: Bytecode Escape Analyzer does not have the check for the case described in 6389127.
Reviewed-by: never

6680665: bytecode Escape Analyzer produces incorrect escape information for methods without oop arguments
Summary: bcEscapeAnalyzer does not analyze methods with no oop arguments.
Reviewed-by: rasbold

Summary: Use MDO to cache arguments escape state determined by the byte code escape analyzer.
Reviewed-by: never