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

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>

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

Summary: allow reg_class definition as a function.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Avoid CMove in a loop if possible. May generate CMove if it could be moved outside a loop.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

Summary: Use new short branch instruction in C2 generated code.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: replace MemBarAcquire/MemBarRelease nodes on the monitor enter/exit code paths with new MemBarAcquireLock/MemBarReleaseLock nodes
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

7010070: Update all 2010 Oracle-changed OpenJDK files to have the proper copyright dates - second pass
Summary: Update the copyright to be 2010 on all changed files in OpenJDK
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Enables cross building of a c2 VM. Support masking of shift counts when the processor architecture mandates it.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: oops should be loaded from the constant table of an nmethod instead of materializing them with a long code sequence.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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

Summary: Use hardware DIV instruction for long division by constant when it is faster than code with multiply.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Hoist DecodeN instruction above null check
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

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

Summary: Matcher::float_in_double should be true only when FPU is used for floats.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: C2 implementation for invokedynamic support.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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

Summary: These methods can be instrinsified by using bit scan, bit test, and population count instructions.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6709742: find_base_for_derived's use of Ideal NULL is unsafe causing crashes during register allocation
Summary: Create a mach node corresponding to ideal node ConP #NULL specifically for derived pointers.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

Summary: Push DecodeN node below the Null check to the non-null path to use the mach node without 0 test.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: verify the adr_type of a mach node was not changed
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: Generate addresses and implicit null checks with narrow oops to avoid decoding.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never