Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, hseigel

Summary: support for strings that have same life-time as code that uses them.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: moved MacroAssembler into separate file
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, dlong

Summary: moved MacroAssembler into separate file
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, dlong

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

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

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

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

Summary: Add klass_holder() to return either mirror or class_loader depending on if the class is anonymous or not.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

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

Summary: remember the code section and switch back to the proper one when adding constants.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, twisti
Contributed-by: NRoman Kennke <rkennke@redhat.com>

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

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>

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: Pass the codeBuffer to the Stub constructor, and adapts the disassembler to print the comments.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, bdelsart

Summary: Distance is too large for one short branch in string_indexofC8().
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

Summary: add another ResourceObj debug field to distinguish garbage
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: This is a preparation for 6961690.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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

Summary: Added more checks into ResourceObj and growableArray to verify correctness of allocation type.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp, dholmes

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: Modify assembler code to check for 0 count for all copy routines.
Reviewed-by: never, ysr, jcoomes

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

Summary: This moves the oops from Codeblob to nmethod.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, apetrusenko, never, dcubed

Reviewed-by: twisti