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 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: kvn, jrose

Summary: Provide additional detail in VerifyError messages
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, acorn

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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, never

Summary: Add annotation extraction code to class file parser.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, kvn
Contributed-by: michael.haupt@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dholmes, coleenp, kamg

Summary: Made new_hash() overloaded rather than a virtual function so SA code doesn't need to be changed.
Reviewed-by: kvn, acorn, dholmes, fparain

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

Summary: Change constMethodOop::_exception_table to optionally inlined u2 table.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, coleenp, kamg

Summary: Cannot delete _buckets and HashtableEntries in shared space (CDS)
Reviewed-by: acorn, kvn, dlong, dcubed, kamg

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Summary: Use an alternate version of hashing algorithm for symbol string tables and after a certain bucket size to improve performance
Reviewed-by: pbk, kamg, dlong, kvn, fparain

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Summary: Fixed raw pointer being used after potential safepoint/GC
Reviewed-by: acorn, fparain, dholmes

7168280: Eliminate the generic signature index slot from field array for field without generic signature.
Summary: Only allocate the generic signature index slot in the field array for field with generic signature attribute.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dlong

Summary: Allow a version of String class that doesn't have count and offset fields.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp

Summary: Allow only current and super invokespecials of <init>
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp, dcubed

Summary: Change the _host_klass to be conditionally created embedded instanceKlass field.
Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Move symbol allocation to an arena so NMT doesn't have to track them at startup.
Reviewed-by: never, kamg, zgu

7109878: The instanceKlass EnclosingMethhod attribute fields can be folded into the _inner_class field.
Summary: Fold instanceKlass::_enclosing_method_class_index and instanceKlass::_enclosing_method_method_index into the instanceKlass::_inner_classes array.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: sla, never

7154670: The instanceKlass _implementors[] and _nof_implementors are not needed for non-interface klass.
Summary: Change implementor to embedded instanceKlass field.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, minqi, coleenp

Summary: Added a capability to start and stop JMX Agent by jcmd
Reviewed-by: acorn, mchung

Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: 7u4 new experimental flag -XX:PredictedClassLoadedCount=#
Reviewed-by: dholmes, phh, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

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

Reviewed-by: acorn, phh, dcubed, sspitsyn

Summary: Use JavaThread::jvmti_thread_state() instead of JvmtiThreadState::state_for().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, poonam, acorn

7123315: instanceKlass::_static_oop_field_count and instanceKlass::_java_fields_count should be u2 type.
Summary: Change instanceKlass::_static_oop_field_count and instanceKlass::_java_fields_count to u2 type.
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart, dholmes
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Summary: Change ClassFileParser::parseClassFile() to use the instanceKlass:_cached_class_file_bytes field to avoid leaking the cache.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, poonam

Reviewed-by: kvn

7092278: "jmap -finalizerinfo" throws "sun.jvm.hotspot.utilities.AssertionFailure: invalid cp index 0 137"
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

Summary: Fixed warnings which prevent building VM with old compilers.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jrose, never