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: Use verifier_max_size instead of max_size to get code attribute max stack size.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, minqi
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Fix the incorrect links in jvmti.html reported by the LinkCheck tool
Reviewed-by: jjh, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Add simple check in debug version of VM.
Reviewed-by: twisti, johnc

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Remove unneeded assert.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, coleenp

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Don't use HS_DTRACE_PROBE_CDECL_N and HS_DTRACE_PROBE_N directly.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, dholmes, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: NMark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

Summary: JVMTI REtruncformClasses must support LocalVariableTypeTable attribute
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dsamersoff, rbackman
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Fix the iteration over the system classes and report the correct reference kind.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rbackman

Summary: Simple renaming to be consistent with instanceKlass->InstanceKlass renaming
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn, 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>

Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

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, never

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dholmes, coleenp, kamg

Summary: change hotspot flag to be unsigned
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla, fparain, brutisso
Contributed-by: NChris Dennis <cdennis@terracottatech.com>

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

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgronlun, rbackman

Summary: Change constMethodOop::_exception_table to optionally inlined u2 table.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, coleenp, kamg

Summary: Missing cast caused integer overflow
Reviewed-by: rbackman, dholmes

Summary: Use an alternate version of hashing algorithm for symbol string tables and after a certain bucket size to improve performance
Reviewed-by: pbk, kamg, dlong, kvn, fparain

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

Reviewed-by: acorn, kamg, sspitsyn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: brutisso, sla, mgerdin

Summary: The JVMTI ResourceExhausted events must be generated in all places where OOME is thrown
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, dcubed, dholmes, dsamersoff, jwilhelm, tonyp
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

7109878: The instanceKlass EnclosingMethhod attribute fields can be folded into the _inner_class field.
Summary: Fold instanceKlass::_enclosing_method_class_index and instanceKlass::_enclosing_method_method_index into the instanceKlass::_inner_classes array.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Summary: Assert doesn't respect invokedynamic opcode
Reviewed-by: dcubed, phh

Summary: Add an internal testing API to HotSpot to enable more targeted testing of vm functionality
Reviewed-by: phh, dholmes

7130993: nsk/jdi/ReferenceType/instances/instances004 fails with JFR: assert(ServiceUtil::visible_oop(obj))
Summary: Skip reporting invisible refs in iterate_over_object to avoid assert(ServiceUtil::visible_oop(obj))
Reviewed-by: dcubed, mgronlun, rbackman
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: reset jvmtithreadstate exception state after frame pop and forceearlyreturn processed
Reviewed-by: minqi, dholmes, dlong
Contributed-by: bill.pittore@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart, kvn, twisti