Summary: Need a support for invokedynamic entry kinds when new and old constant pools are merged.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

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: When constant pool is copied in merge_constant_pools the invokedynamic operands must be copied before.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Added on_stack bit to flags.  Also MetadataMarkOnStack is used for more than JVMTI so had to be moved.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, stefank

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: Also reviewed by: vitalyd@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: This patch addresses an alignment trap due to the storage format of method parameters data in constMethod.  It also adds code to validate constant pool indexes for method parameters data.
Reviewed-by: jrose, dholmes
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

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

Summary: Use methodHandle.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, twisti, sspitsyn

8005494: SIGSEGV in Rewriter::relocate_and_link() when testing Weblogic with CompressedOops and KlassPtrs
Summary: Relocate functions with jsr's when rewriting so not repeated after reading shared archive
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

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

Summary: Add three memory-ordering intrinsics to the sun.misc.Unsafe class.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: Add ClassLoaderData object for each anonymous class with metaspaces to allocate in.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, stefank

Summary: Make metaspace::contains be lock free and used to see if something is in metaspace, also compare Method* with vtbl pointer.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, dcubed, jmasa

Summary: Removed duplicate entries
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp

Summary: Fixed to minor errors in example code
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dholmes

Summary: When java process crashed in compiler thread, repeat the compilation process will help finding root cause. This is done with using SA dump application class data and replay data from core dump, then use debug version of jvm to recompile the problematic java method.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: dll_dir can contain multiple paths, need to parse them correctly when loading agents
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong
Contributed-by: bill.pittore@oracle.com

Summary: Change types of above methods and field to InstanceKlass and remove unneeded casts from the source files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Use verifier_max_size instead of max_size to get code attribute max stack size.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, minqi
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Fix the incorrect links in jvmti.html reported by the LinkCheck tool
Reviewed-by: jjh, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Add simple check in debug version of VM.
Reviewed-by: twisti, johnc

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Remove unneeded assert.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, coleenp

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

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

Summary: JVMTI REtruncformClasses must support LocalVariableTypeTable attribute
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dsamersoff, rbackman
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Fix the iteration over the system classes and report the correct reference kind.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rbackman

Summary: Simple renaming to be consistent with instanceKlass->InstanceKlass renaming
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

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: dholmes, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose