Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Deleted placement new operator of Node - node(size_t, Compile *, int).
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com

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>

Summary: Use class exactness as part of the condition for class compare optimization instead of assert.
Reviewed-by: twisti, roland

Summary: optimize this code pattern obj.getClass() == A.class.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Summary: Make sure cnt doesn't become negative and integer overflow doesn't happen.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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

Summary: Add predicates when loop head bytecode is parsed instead of when back branch bytecode is parsed.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Rename can_post_exceptions support to can_post_on_exceptions. Add support for should_post_on_exceptions flag to permit per JavaThread optimizations.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, dcubed
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

Summary: Loop predication implementation
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Make a special root-list for those few nmethods which might contain non-perm oops.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, jmasa, ysr

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

6788527: Server vm intermittently fails with assertion "live value must not be garbage" with fastdebug bits
Summary: Cache Jvmti and DTrace flags used by Compiler.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: I have collected some typos I have found while looking at the code.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: insert CastII nodes to narrow type of load_array_length() node
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: add safepoint before popping expression stack, not after
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: make do_ifnull() handling similar to do_if()
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: Remove call to repush_if_args()
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Remove DecodeNNode::decode() and EncodePNode::encode() methods.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: stop compilation after negative array allocation
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold

6671250: In Parse::do_if() old Cmp node 'c' should be replaced with new one after BoolNode transformation
Summary: In Parse::do_if() 'c' (CmpNode) node may be changed during BoolNode transformation so 'c' may became dead but the node is referenced later in the code.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold