Summary: Add new CP types CONSTANT_MethodHandle, CONSTANT_MethodType; extend 'ldc' bytecode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Enable parallel compilation in C1
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, ysr

Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

Summary: Hoist DecodeN instruction above null check
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Add a stress-test flag for running MethodComparator over many inputs.  Fix bugs that crop up.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Change two uses of get_index_u2 to get_index_u2_cpcache; also tweak some debugging print functions
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: This fixes G1 barriers in c1 on x64.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: Added new product ObjectAlignmentInBytes flag to control object alignment.
Reviewed-by: twisti, ysr, iveresov

Summary: Fix errors in 6939207.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Factored cleanup of instruction decode which prepares for enhanced ldc semantics.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: C1 for SPARC needs to support JSR 292.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: This moves the oops from Codeblob to nmethod.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Changed LP64 to _LP64 in collectedHeap.cpp.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jcoomes

6953483: Typo related to ReduceInitialCardMarks leaves concurrent collectors vulnerable to heap corruption
Summary: Corrected mis-spelling of COMPILER2 in #ifdef, which could cause heap corruption in CMS due to precleaning when +ReduceInitialCardMarks. Thanks to ChenGuang Sun <suncg03@gmail.com> for bringing this typo to our attention.
Reviewed-by: tonyp, jmasa, jcoomes, kvn

Reviewed-by: dcubed

6693236: A class file whose version number is greater than to 50.0 must be verified using the typechecker
Summary: Disable failover verification for classfiles >= v51
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kamg, ysr, dholmes, johnc

Summary: Add missing checks into EA code.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: never, kvn
Contributed-by: eric.caspole@amd.com

Summary: Use resolve_external_guard() instead of resolve_non_null().
Reviewed-by: thurka, kamg, acorn

Summary: When using compressed oops, use compressed promoted pointers in b63:b31 of the mark word, so as not to interfere with the CMS "freeness bit" at b7. Updated mark-word layout documentation.
Reviewed-by: minqi, poonam, jmasa, coleenp

6921317: (partial) G1: assert(top() == bottom() || zfs == Allocated,"Region must be empty, or we must be setting it to
Summary: Extended the failing assertion with the new message format to get more data.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

6951582: Build problems on win64
Summary: Changes to enable building JDK7 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Reviewed-by: ohair, art, ccheung, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Moved PromotionInfo and friends into new files promotionInfo.{h,c}pp from their previous compactibleFreeListSpace.{h,c}pp home.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

Summary: Moves the logic for determining the size of the Zero stack into the ZeroStack class.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Add comparison functions for compressed oops to use bubblesort.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: Missed Zero changes for 6943304.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: GC-locker induced concurrent full gc should be asynchronous; policy now controlled by a separate flag, which defaults to false.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: On sun4v/CMT avoid use of memset() in BOT updates so as to prevent concurrent BOT readers from seeing the phantom zeros arising from memset()'s use of BIS.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc, minqi, poonam, tonyp

Summary: Adjust MethodType lookup logic to search off the BCP, but not to cache those results
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: split MethodHandle.invoke into invokeExact and invokeGeneric; also clean up JVM-to-Java interfaces
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: coleenp, never, gbenson

Summary: Disable the use of pcmpestri until it can be guaranteed that the load doesn't cross in to the uncommited space. See 6942326.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: There are unimplemented portions of the hotspot code for method handles and invokedynamic specific to SPARC.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose