Summary: Modify WhiteBoxAPI to use interface classes from test/testlibrary instead, add ClassFileInstaller to resolve the boot class path issue
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, dsamersoff, coleenp, kvn

Summary: Fixed makefile logic to correctly special case JRE_RELEASE_VERSION and vm_version.o
Reviewed-by: dholmes, erikj

Summary: Recognize VM generated method in old verifier
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavelli@oracle.com

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

Summary: Remove Method* from backtrace but save version so redefine classes doesn't give inaccurate line numbers.  Removed old Merlin API with duplicate code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

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

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

Summary: Phase 1 is removing '_g' support from the Makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, sspitsyn, coleenp, tbell
Contributed-by: ron.durbin@oracle.com

8001756: Hotspot makefiles report missing OBJCOPY command in the wrong circumstances
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dsamersoff, erikj, collins

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Don't use HS_DTRACE_PROBE_CDECL_N and HS_DTRACE_PROBE_N directly.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, dholmes, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: NMark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>

Summary: Prepend '.' to the existing native library path
Reviewed-by: kvn, sspitsyn

Summary: We should in SA to use hsdis for it like the JVM does to replace the current java based disassembler.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, sla
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, tbell, erikj, ihse, ohrstrom

Reviewed-by: ohair, dholmes

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

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: Added new FormatBufferResource class to use thread's resource area for error message buffer.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Lower compiler optimization level when compiling jvmtiClassFileReconstituter.cpp as a workaround for the solaris x86 5.10 cc bug.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

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>

Summary: libjvm_g_db.so and libjvm_g_dtrace.so links in .diz file still had 64 directory
Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes, sspitsyn

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

7175255: symlinks are wrong, which caused jdk8-promote-2 to fail (client/64/64 directories in debuginfo zips)
Summary: Fix bad paths in client/64 and server/64 debug info and symlink creation
Reviewed-by: ohair, dholmes

Summary: Add -fpch-deps flag to gcc builds
Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: Work around 'gobjcopy' failure on Solaris X64 by adding a temporary tool that removes the SHF_ALLOC flag from "empty" section headers.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, acorn

Summary: Work around 'gobjcopy --add-gnu-debuglink' failure by adding a temporary tool that adds the '.gnu_debuglink' section and nothing more.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, acorn

Summary: Disable FDS by default on Solaris; disable ZIP_DEBUGINFO_FILES by default on Windows.
Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn

Summary: Build option FULL_DEBUG_SYMBOLS=0 only affects product builds.
Reviewed-by: ohair, jmelvin, sspitsyn

Summary: Add support for ENABLE_FULL_DEBUG_SYMBOLS and ZIP_DEBUGINFO_FILES build flags. Add support for .diz files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohair, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohair

Reviewed-by: brutisso, sla, mgerdin

Summary: Add an internal testing API to HotSpot to enable more targeted testing of vm functionality
Reviewed-by: phh, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohrstrom, ohair, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: rbackman, jrose, dholmes

Summary: Cleaned up make variables for compilers and linker to consistently use CXX for C++ compiler, CC for C compiler and LD for linker.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohrstrom

Summary: When a build number is not specified, the JRE_RELEASE_VERSION define contains a date and timestamp. Thus ccache cannot cache the object files for longer than a minute since the define is passed to the compilation of all source files. This change passes JRE_RELEASE_VERSION only to vm_version.cpp and adds a function jre_release_version() to Abstract_VM_Version. This allows all other source files to be ccached.
Reviewed-by: ohair, rottenha
Contributed-by: fredrik.ohrstrom@oracle.com

Summary: Fix gamma launcher on Mac OS X and reconcile test_gamma script on Unix platforms
Reviewed-by: dcubed, ohair, jcoomes, dholmes, ksrini
Contributed-by: james.melvin@oracle.com

Summary: Added a nop tracing infrastructure, JFR makefile changes and other infrastructure used only by JFR.
Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: markus.gronlund@oracle.com

Summary: Use 3-operands SIMD instructions in C2 generated code for machines with AVX.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Added JVM_SetNativeThreadName to linker mapfiles on Solaris and Linux.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes
Contributed-by: michael.x.mcmahon@oracle.com