Summary: Instead of passing in last_entry to all the VM_ macros just expand it in the main vmStructs.cpp file.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, minqi

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NMorris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NRichard Reingruber <richard.reingruber@sap.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NBharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>

Summary: use unsigned comparison when checking for stack overflow
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: paul.nauman@oracle.com

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

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

8003848: Make ConstMethod::generic_signature_index optional and move Method::_max_stack to ConstMethod.
Summary: Make ConstMethod::generic_signature_index optional and move Method::_max_stack to ConstMethod.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, sspitsyn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp

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: code generated by c1 for getClass intrinsic broken when klass field is loaded on 64bit with compressed klass off.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Removed LoadUI2L node from Ideal nodes, use match rule in .ad files instead.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Add generation of vectors for scalar shift count.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti, dlong

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

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

Summary: use long branches in test_invocation_counter_for_mdp()
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: missing test for T_METADATA leads to incorrect register allocation.
Reviewed-by: 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: C1 needs knowledge of T_METADATA at the LIR level.
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: kvn, dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: NTao Mao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: G1 does not appear to be immune to the issue described in CR 6948537 and increasing the size of old-generation PLABs appears to increase the liklihood of seeing the issue. Extend the fix for 6948537 to G1's BlockOffsetTable.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa

Summary: In C2 add software membar after load from Reference.referent field to prevent commoning of loads across safepoint since GC can change its value. In C1 always generate Reference.get() intrinsic.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti, dholmes, johnc

Summary: Check kstat data for SPARC-M.
Reviewed-by: roland

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: Increase vector size up to 256-bits for YMM AVX registers on x86.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, roland

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Eliminate constMethod's _method backpointer to methodOop, and move the _constant field from methodOop to constMethod.
Reviewed-by: roland, bdelsart, kamg

Summary: use x87 instructions to implement exp() and pow() in interpreter/c1/c2.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti

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

Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: NTao Mao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

Summary: use shorter instruction sequences for atomic add and atomic exchange when possible.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Save whole XMM/YMM registers in safepoint interrupt handler.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, bdelsart