8156137: SIGSEGV in ReceiverTypeData::clean_weak_klass_links
8057570: RedefineClasses() tests fail assert(((Metadata*)obj)->is_valid()) failed: obj is valid
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, ahgross, acorn, vlivanov

8143897: Weblogic12medrec assert(handler_address == SharedRuntime::compute_compiled_exc_handler(nm, pc, exception, force_unwind, true)) failed: Must be the same
Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr

Summary: Use Patching_lock to synchronize access between set_code() and clear_code().
Reviewed-by: kvn, dlong

Summary: Applied RMs in sweep_code_cache and related codes.
Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Reviewed-by: stefank

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, vlivanov

Summary: Clean ICs of unloaded nmethods in sweeper to avoid impact on safepoint duration.
Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr

Summary: Removed nmethod transition to zombie outside of sweeper. Added cleaning of ICs of unloaded nmethods.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Remove active ICStubs from zombie nmethods
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, bdelsart

Summary: Applied RMs in sweep_code_cache and related codes.
Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ehelin, brutisso, coleenp, roland, iveresov
Contributed-by: stefan.karlsson@oracle.com, mikael.gerdin@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: iveresov, mgerdin

Summary: Also-reviewed-by: kim.barrett@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

8043029: Change 8037816 breaks HS build with older GCC versions which don't support diagnostic pragmas
8043164: Format warning in traceStream.hpp
Summary: Backport of main fix + two corrections, enables clang compilation, turns on format attributes, corrects/mutes warnings
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, iveresov, twisti

8040085: dtrace/jsdt tests crash on solaris. found an unadvertised bad scavengable oop in the code cache
Summary: Add CodeCache::add_scavenge_root_nmethod(this) to the dtrace-constructor of nmethod
Reviewed-by: roland, iveresov

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, stefank, twisti

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ehelin

Summary: check the state of caller and callee nmethods and skip call site patching if any of them is not alive
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Summary: Also introduces the compiler oracle 'option' feature for PrintAssembly.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fixed proper sweeping of small code cache sizes
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Code cache sweeping based on method hotness; removed speculatively disconnect
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

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: declare all user-defined operator new()s within Hotspot code with the empty throw() exception specification
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, dholmes, hseigel, dcubed, kvn, ccheung
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Method pointer for zombie methods may be invalid
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Added AIX includes alpha-sorted before BSD. Fix compilation issues with xlC in shared code. Basic shared platform dependend adaption (vm_version etc.).
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, stefank

Summary: Add a list of nmethods to the RSet for a region that contain references into the region. Skip scanning the code cache during root scanning and scan the nmethod lists during RSet scanning instead.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso, mgerdin, twisti, kvn

Summary: remove unused breakpoint relocation type
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: jeremymanson@google.com, calvin.cheung@oracle.com

Summary: Walk the compiledIC relocation records to keep Method* from being deallocated.
Reviewed-by: dlong, kvn

Summary: nmethod::preserve_callee_argument_oops() must take appendix into account.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Remove continous free block requirement
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to nmethod constructor and checks to ensure CodeCache has space before allocation
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Removed the unused keep_alive parameter
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, kamg, coleenp

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>