Summary: We need a way to walk chained method handles in the JVM to call the right methods and to generate required bytecode adapters for the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Zero currently won't build on zSeries or PowerPC machines with assertions turned on.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Fix several crashers, remove needless paths for boxed-style bootstrap method call, refactor & simplify APIs for rewriter constantPoolOop, remove sun.dyn.CallSiteImpl
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fix the shadowing and incorrect macro usages
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: correctly raise exceptions, support safe bitwise "raw" conversions, fix bugs revealed by VerifyMethodHandles, remove dead code, improve debugging support
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009 through Septermber
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

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

Reviewed-by: kamg, phh

Summary: use PcDesc to keep record of the reexecute bit instead of using DebugInfoStreams
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti

Summary: Refactor JNIHandles::checked_resolve_jmethod_id() into fast and paranoid parts.
Reviewed-by: never, alanb

Summary: Correctly count full GC operations for framework collectors. Add ForceFullGCJVMTIEpilogues as a future work around if needed.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, alanb, ysr

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

Summary: JVM_FindClassFromBootLoader returns null if class not found
Reviewed-by: acorn, alanb, dholmes

Summary: Modifications to G1 so as to allow the use of compressed oops.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, coleenp, jmasa, kvn, never, phh, tonyp

Summary: Add new jvmstat counters to measure detailed class loading time
Reviewed-by: acorn, kamg

Summary: Disable escape analysis when jvmti/debugger is used. Add support for EA ibto SA.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: initial implementation, with known omissions (x86/64, sparc, compiler optim., c-oops, C++ interp.)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, never

Reviewed-by: xlu, mchung

Summary: preparatory but separable changes for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 03/09
Reviewed-by: katleman, tbell, ohair

Summary: Change JvmtiEnvBase::is_valid() and JvmtiRawMonitor::is_valid() to fetch the _magic fields via Bytes::get_native_u[248]().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, swamyv

Summary: Remove incorrect optimization in klassItable::adjust_method_entries(). Add RedefineClasses() tracing support for obsolete method entry.
Reviewed-by: acorn, swamyv

Summary: Check for NULL return values from jvmti_thread_state() and state_for() and return a JVM TI error code as appropriate.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, swamyv

6700114: 3/4 Assertion (_thread->get_interp_only_mode() == 1,"leaving interp only when mode not one")
Summary: Don't create JvmtiThreadState for an exiting JavaThread.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, swamyv

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

6791815: Fix for 6471657 can cause deadlock on non-Solaris platforms when initializing direct buffer support
Summary: Place the state transition inside the loop so that the VMThread could proceed for safepoint
Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, acorn

Summary: The CMS concurrent precleaning and concurrent marking phases should work around classes that are undergoing redefinition.
Reviewed-by: ysr, dcubed

Summary: Added safe_object_iterate() for use by JMapPerm.
Reviewed-by: tonyp

Summary: Fixed the wrong cast between types since more restrictions are imposed by gcc 4.3.2
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, acorn, phh, never

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified starting July 2008 to Dec 2008
Reviewed-by: katleman, ohair, tbell

Summary: Make reguard_stack change access to RW, not execute and use os::protect_memory with the new parameter when change needed to X.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jcoomes

Summary: Fix adds support for verifying arguments with -Xcheck:jni.
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: low-level privileged sun.misc.Unsafe.defineAnonymousClass
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fixes assertions caused by one jvm_entry calling another, solved by refactoring code and modified gamma test.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, xlu

Summary: test for null instead of strlen
Reviewed-by: rasbold

Reviewed-by: kamg, kvn
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: allocate alignment-sized page(s) below java heap so that memory accesses at heap_base+1page give signal and cause an implicit null check
Reviewed-by: kvn, jmasa, phh, jcoomes

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