Reviewed-by: jrose, roland

Summary: Removed most of the SPARC V8 instructions
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: In do_oop_store the uncompressed value of the oop being stored needs to be preserved and passed to g1_write_barrier_post. This is necessary for the heap region cross check to work correctly.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, johnc
Contributed-by: NMartin Doerr <martin.doerr@sap.com>

Summary: Allocate the method's profiling related metadata until they are needed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Summary: Zero Symbol* for constant pool strings to indicate pseudo_strings (objects that aren't strings).  Clean up JVM_CONSTANT_Object and unused flags.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, jrose

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

Summary: Move _max_locals and _size_of_parameters to ConstMethod for better sharing.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, minqi, jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

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

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: 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>

Summary: Moved sizeof(klassOopDesc), changed the return type to ByteSize and removed the _in_bytes suffix.
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart, coleenp, jrose

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: Use BIS for zeroing new allocated big (2Kb and more) objects and arrays.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, ysr

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

Summary: Add new short branch instruction to Hotspot sparc assembler.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jrose

Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: A referent object that is only weakly reachable at the start of concurrent marking but is re-attached to the strongly reachable object graph during marking may not be marked as live. This can cause the reference object to be processed prematurely and leave dangling pointers to the referent object. Implement a read barrier for the java.lang.ref.Reference::referent field by intrinsifying the Reference.get() method, and intercepting accesses though JNI, reflection, and Unsafe, so that when a non-null referent object is read it is also logged in an SATB buffer.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, never, tonyp, dholmes

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: Replaced incr_allocated_bytes() formals var_size_in_bytes and con_size_in_bytes with a single RegisterOrConstant formal.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jcoomes

Summary: Reuse set_method_data_for_bcp() to setup mdp after MDO creation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Track allocated bytes in Thread's, update on TLAB retirement and direct allocation in Eden and tenured, add JNI methods for ThreadMXBean.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, dholmes, ysr

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: kvn, jrose

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: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

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

Reviewed-by: coleenp, never, gbenson

Summary: There are unimplemented portions of the hotspot code for method handles and invokedynamic specific to SPARC.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

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

Summary: The Address class on SPARC currently handles both, addresses and address literals, what makes the Address class more complicated than it has to be.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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

Summary: oop stored in unsafely in Lscratch noticed by visual inspection will not be updated by GC.
Reviewed-by: kamg, never, kvn

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