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: Add generic type analysis and default method selection algorithms
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Move decoding into Dependencies::DepStream::argument, so no caller could see encoded context value (NULL) anymore.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

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

Summary: There was a rogue os::breakpoint() call in log_dependency left over from the jsr292 merge.  Also changed verify_oop() calls for metadata to verify_{method,klass}_ptr.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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: renamed mach nodes which use scalar AVX instructions, added integer vectors shuffling instructions
Reviewed-by: twisti

7151532: DCmd for hotspot native memory tracking
Summary: Implementation of native memory tracking phase 1, which tracks VM native memory usage, and related DCmd
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, fparain

Summary: Increase vector size up to 256-bits for YMM AVX registers on x86.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, roland

Summary: Pass the codeBuffer to the Stub constructor, and adapts the disassembler to print the comments.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

Summary: Save whole XMM/YMM registers in safepoint interrupt handler.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, bdelsart

Summary: Tiered compilation has increased the number of nmethods in the code cache. This has, in turn, significantly increased the number of marked nmethods processed during the StrongRootsScope destructor. Create a specialized version of CodeBlobToOopClosure for G1 which places only those nmethods that contain pointers into the collection set on to the marked nmethods list.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

7154670: The instanceKlass _implementors[] and _nof_implementors are not needed for non-interface klass.
Summary: Change implementor to embedded instanceKlass field.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, minqi, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, kevinw, brutisso, twisti, jmasa

Reviewed-by: phh, bobv, coleenp, dcubed
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Summary: Reduce class runtime memory usage by packing 4 instanceKlass boolean fields into single u1 field. Save 4-byte for each loaded class.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, bobv, phh, twisti, never, coleenp
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: Integrate bsd-port/hotspot and macosx-port/hotspot changes as of 2011.09.29.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, never, phh
Contributed-by: NChristos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Kurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Alexander Strange &lt;astrange@apple.com&gt;, Mike Swingler &lt;swingler@apple.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Victor Hernandez &lt;vhernandez@apple.com&gt;, Pratik Solanki <psolanki@apple.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

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

Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

Summary: Implement a more accurate is_scavengable()
Reviewed-by: stefank, jcoomes, ysr

Summary: Eliminate the race condition.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn

7010070: Update all 2010 Oracle-changed OpenJDK files to have the proper copyright dates - second pass
Summary: Update the copyright to be 2010 on all changed files in OpenJDK
Reviewed-by: ohair

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

Reviewed-by: kvn