Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed, dsimms

Summary: Implement Safefetch as stub routines. This reduces compiler and os dependencies.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>

Summary: Removed most of the SPARC V8 instructions
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, hseigel

Summary: In 64bit VM move CDS archive address to 32G on all platforms using new flag SharedBaseAddress.  In 32bit VM set CDS archive address to 3Gb on Linux and let other OSs pick the address.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed, zgu, hseigel

Summary: Fix the build without precompiled headers by either including the missing ".inline.hpp" files into the appropriate files or by turning inline-functions declared in header files into ordinary functions in ".cpp" files.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank, dholmes

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp

Summary: Remove support for the UseVectoredExceptions flag
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kamg
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

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

Summary: Removing include of c1/c1_runtime.hpp and opto/runtime.hpp from all os-files.
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: nils.eliasson@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>

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kamg

Summary: check stack alignment on VM entry on x64.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Add new short branch instruction to Hotspot sparc assembler.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jrose

7044486: open jdk repos have files with incorrect copyright headers, which can end up in src bundles
Reviewed-by: ohair, trims

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: Added new method inc_stat_counter() to increment long statistic values and use atomic long load and store.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, jrose, phh, never

Summary: Use substring search instead of compare and convert string to upper case before search.
Reviewed-by: never, phh, iveresov

Summary: Add option for gcc 4 and above, define JNIEXPORT and JNIIMPORT to visibility=default, add for jio_snprintf and others since -fvisibility=hidden overrides --version-script definitions.
Reviewed-by: kamg, never

Summary: Use LDX/STX on v9 and LDD/STD on v8 sparc for volatile long moves.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: enhance the error reporting mechanism to help user to fix the problem rather than making it look like a VM error.
Reviewed-by: kvn, kamg

Summary: read Solaris kstat data to get more precise CPU information
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never, twisti, dholmes

Summary: move functions from hpi library to hotspot, communicate with licensees and open source community, check jdk for dependency, file CCC request
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, dsamersoff

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, dholmes, coleenp

6973570: OrderAccess::storestore() scales poorly on multi-socket x64 and sparc: cache-line ping-ponging
Summary: volatile store to static variable removed in favour of a volatile store to stack to avoid excessive cache coherency traffic; verified that the volatile store is not elided by any of our current compilers.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dice, jcoomes, kvn

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

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009 through Septermber
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

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

Summary: Use new atomic long load method Atomic::load() to load max_hrtime.
Reviewed-by: never, ysr, johnc, phh, dcubed, acorn

Reviewed-by: kvn, phh

Summary: bitCount() should use POPC on SPARC processors where POPC is implemented directly in hardware.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Use zero based compressed oops if java heap is below 32gb and unscaled compressed oops if java heap is below 4gb.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jcoomes, coleenp

Summary: A similar function to getisax(2) should be used to determine all possible instruction set extensions.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn