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>

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, kevinw, brutisso, twisti, jmasa

Summary: improvements of TraceMethodHandles for JSR292
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: improvements of frame_describe
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: fix for debug method frame::describe
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, kvn, dcubed

Summary: Implemented in-process C native stack frame decoding when symbols are available.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never

Summary: Add 'GetThisObject' function
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp

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

Summary: 6953477 broke Zero.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: This is the renaming part of 6961697 to keep the actual changes small for review.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Shark is a JIT compiler for Zero that uses the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

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: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Reviewed-by: coleenp, never, gbenson

Summary: Fix assert since top deoptimized frame has last_sp == interpreter_frame_monitor_begin if there are no expressions.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: We need to introduce a new MH deopt handler so we can easily determine if the deopt happened at a MH call site or not.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Reviewed-by: mr

Summary: We need to introduce a new MH deopt handler so we can easily determine if the deopt happened at a MH call site or not.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: C2 needs some additional optimizations to be able to handle MethodHandle invokes and invokedynamic instructions at the best performance.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: If GC crashed with java thread involved, print out the java stack trace in error report
Reviewed-by: never, ysr, coleenp, dholmes

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

Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose

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

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