Summary: Thread stack's base address can be NULL if it is not started or exited before recording the base
Reviewed-by: kvn, fparain

Summary: missing test for T_METADATA leads to incorrect register allocation.
Reviewed-by: kvn

7181995: NMT ON: NMT assertion failure assert(cur_vm->is_uncommit_record() || cur_vm->is_deallocation_record
Summary: Fixed virtual memory records merge and promotion logic, should be based on sequence number vs. base address order
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: There was a rogue os::breakpoint() call in log_dependency left over from the jsr292 merge.  Also changed verify_oop() calls for metadata to verify_{method,klass}_ptr.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: C1 needs knowledge of T_METADATA at the LIR level.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

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

Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, jmasa, kvn

7196103: NPG: Unable to allocate bit map for parallel garbage collection for the requested heap size
Summary: Don't allocate huge class metaspace size by default on x64
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, kvn

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

Reviewed-by: jcoomes, brutisso

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 the workaround of 7187454 problem which was restored incorrectly during NPG merge.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Don't decompress the klass pointer in the G1 pre-barrier code when !UseCompressedKlassPointers
Reviewed-by: coleenp, brutisso

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: xmeet when both inputs are MetadataPtr.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Remove incorrect cast
Reviewed-by: brutisso, coleenp

Summary: If the commit fails, the size isn't set so the assert fails.
Reviewed-by: kamg

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: johnc

Summary: Added capability to load support classes for other cpus
Reviewed-by: coleenp, bobv, sla
Contributed-by: NBill Pittore <bill.pittore@oracle.com>

Summary: Add inline directives to os::Linux::supports_monotonic_clock() and os::Bsd::supports_monotonic_clock().
Reviewed-by: johnc, azeemj, mikael
Contributed-by: NBrandon Mitchell <brandon@twitter.com>

Summary: Do not remove safepoints during peeling optimization.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Add case for CYGWIN in .sh files.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: pavel.punegov@oracle.com

7192406: JSR 292: C2 needs exact return type information for invokedynamic and invokehandle call sites
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add the flags G1EvacuationFailureALot flag (and supporting flags) to force trigger evacuation failures. The support flags control how often to trigger an evacuation failure and during which types of evacuation pause. This functionality is analogous to that of PromotionFailureALot for the other collectors.
Reviewed-by: brutisso

Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: NTao Mao <tao.mao@oracle.com>