Summary: fix null pointer
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: allocate method annotations and attach to ConstMethod if present
Reviewed-by: dcubed, jiangli, sspitsyn, iklam

Summary: jcmd <pid> GC.class_stats (UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions)
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, sla, acorn
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Count number of instance classes so that it matches class metadata size
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

8005494: SIGSEGV in Rewriter::relocate_and_link() when testing Weblogic with CompressedOops and KlassPtrs
Summary: Relocate functions with jsr's when rewriting so not repeated after reading shared archive
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: joel.franck@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp

Summary: When java process crashed in compiler thread, repeat the compilation process will help finding root cause. This is done with using SA dump application class data and replay data from core dump, then use debug version of jvm to recompile the problematic java method.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

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

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

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

7195867: NPG: SAJDI tests fail with sun.jvm.hotspot.types.WrongTypeException: No suitable match for type
Summary: Need to restore the vtable in metadata when we restore the type from the shared archive.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jcoomes, jmasa, jrose

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>

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dholmes, coleenp, kamg

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: Change the _host_klass to be conditionally created embedded instanceKlass field.
Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, dholmes

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>

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

Summary: Change instanceKlass::_init_state field to u1 type.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, coleenp, dholmes, phh, never
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

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: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

Summary: Unrewrite bytecodes for OOM error allocating the constant pool cache.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

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

Summary: Only call <clinit> with ACC_STATIC for classfiles with version > 50
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Removed.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, brutisso

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

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

Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

Summary: Use resource memory instead of c-heap for the exception message
Reviewed-by: phh, jmasa

Summary: Remove the breadth-first copying order from ParallelScavenge and use depth-first by default.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, ysr, johnc