8026877: Error in opening JAR file when invalid jar specified with -Xbootclasspath/a on OpenJDK build
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti

Summary: Restore the appendix argument after PopFrame() call
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>

Summary: Need to walk array class vtables replacing old methods too if j.l.o redefined
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, ctornqvi

Summary: Fix text, overwritten type and holder for resolved method
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed, minqi, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Check for exception during SystemDictionary::resolve_instance_class_or_null() and clean up.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, hseigel, minqi
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Summary: Removed depreciated kernel VM source code from hotspot VM
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: Add hotspot support for parameter reflection
Reviewed-by: acorn, jrose, coleenp
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

Summary: Add ClassLoaderData object for each anonymous class with metaspaces to allocate in.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, stefank

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

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>

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

Summary: 7u4 new experimental flag -XX:PredictedClassLoadedCount=#
Reviewed-by: dholmes, phh, dcubed

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: twisti, roland, kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

7049415: Failure of resolution of sym.reference to the c.s.s. should be wrapped in BootstrapMethodError
Summary: Delegate invokedynamic linkage errors to MethodHandleNatives.raiseException.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: After appropriate testing, we need to turn on EnableMethodHandles and EnableInvokeDynamic by default.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, jrose, phh

Summary: package and class renaming only; delete unused methods and classes
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: consolidate runtime support in java.dyn.MethodHandleNatives; include transitional compatibility logic
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

Reviewed-by: mchung, acorn

Summary: Because of the removal of language support, the JDK 7 API for JSR 292 no longer includes a public class named java/dyn/InvokeDynamic.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

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

Summary: Allow CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic nodes to have any number of extra operands.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add JVM_CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic records to constant pool to determine per-instruction BSMs.
Reviewed-by: twisti

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

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

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

Summary: Put generated MH adapter in InvokeDynamic/MethodHandle classes to be able to indentify them easily in the compiler.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti