Summary: Count number of instance classes so that it matches class metadata size
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

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

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

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

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: 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: 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

8001658: No need to pass resolved_references as argument to ConstantPoolCacheEntry::set_method_handle_common
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NBharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>

Summary: Use new x86 AES instructions for AESCrypt.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, roland
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

Summary: Add generic type analysis and default method selection algorithms
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

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

Summary: add LogCompilation support in C1 - both client and tiered mode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Change the flags and variables related to tenuring threshold to be unsigned
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

8000227: [obj|type]ArrayKlass::oop_print_on prints one line to tty instead of the provided output stream
Reviewed-by: brutisso, sla, jmasa, coleenp

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

Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, jmasa, kvn

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

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 incorrect cast
Reviewed-by: brutisso, 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>

Summary: Remove the SharedSkipVerify flag
Reviewed-by: kamg, sspitsyn, coleenp
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

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>

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: Need to copy the inlined exception table to the new constMethodOop during method rewriting.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

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