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: 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>

7192406: JSR 292: C2 needs exact return type information for invokedynamic and invokehandle call sites
Reviewed-by: kvn

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: Change constMethodOop::_exception_table to optionally inlined u2 table.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, coleenp, kamg

7092712: JSR 292: unloaded invokedynamic call sites can lead to a crash with signature types not on BCP
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Recompile the enclosing methods without inlining of the method that has OSRed to level 4 or recompile the enclosing method at level 4.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: package and class renaming only; delete unused methods and classes
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

Summary: C1 with profiling doesn't check whether the MDO has been really allocated, which can silently fail if the perm gen is full. The solution is to check if the allocation failed and bailout out of inlining or compilation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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

Summary: Fix ciMethod::instructions_size() to return correct value
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

6986944: JSR 292 assert(caller_nm->is_method_handle_return(caller_frame.pc())) failed: must be MH call site
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

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

Summary: Shark is a JIT compiler for Zero that uses the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use GrowableArray and VectorSet allocated in ciEnv arena.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

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

Summary: C1 for SPARC needs to support JSR 292.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Clear the total count when a receiver information is cleared.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Fix incorrect marking of methods as not compilable.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Put generated MH adapter in InvokeDynamic/MethodHandle classes to be able to indentify them easily in the compiler.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

6788527: Server vm intermittently fails with assertion "live value must not be garbage" with fastdebug bits
Summary: Cache Jvmti and DTrace flags used by Compiler.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: initial implementation, with known omissions (x86/64, sparc, compiler optim., c-oops, C++ interp.)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, never

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

Summary: exclude UEP size from nmethod code size and use narrow klass oop to load prototype header.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: _is_compilable check prevents breakpoint bytecodes reversion when loading bytecodes for ciMethod.
Reviewed-by: never