Summary: Use methodHandle.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, twisti, sspitsyn

Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: dll_dir can contain multiple paths, need to parse them correctly when loading agents
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong
Contributed-by: bill.pittore@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>

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 ClassFileParser::parseClassFile() to use the instanceKlass:_cached_class_file_bytes field to avoid leaking the cache.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, poonam

7103224: collision between __LEAF define in interfaceSupport.hpp and /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h with gcc
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: NOmair Majid <omajid@redhat.com>

Summary: The name in a deferred JVM/TI DynamicCodeGenerated event needs to be explicitly saved.
Reviewed-by: acorn, never, dsamersoff, dholmes

Summary: Dynamic-code generated events should be deferred and processed by service thread
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, dcubed

6766644: Redefinition of compiled method fails with assertion "Can not load classes with the Compiler thread"
Summary: Defer posting events from the compiler thread: use service thread
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, never, dcubed

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

Summary: Rebuild breakpoint cache at gc_epilogue instead of during oops_do
Reviewed-by: dcubed, ysr, coleenp

Summary: Mark field volatile, use membars, and change access order to close race
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes

Summary: Make JvmtiGCMark safe to run non-safepoint and instrument CMS
Reviewed-by: ysr, dcubed

Summary: Update minor version to 1.2 for jdk7
Reviewed-by: phh, dcubed

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

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

Reviewed-by: twisti, dcubed

Summary: Rename can_post_exceptions support to can_post_on_exceptions. Add support for should_post_on_exceptions flag to permit per JavaThread optimizations.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, dcubed
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

6580131: 3/4 CompiledMethodLoad events don't produce the expected extra notifications to describe inlining
Summary: Add support for additional implementation specific info to the JVM/TI CompiledMethodLoad event via the compile_info parameter.
Reviewed-by: never, ohair, tbell, tdeneau
Contributed-by: NVasanth Venkatachalam <vasanth.venkatachalam@amd.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: If a JVMTI agent asks for version 1.0, then it should get version 1.0 semantics.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohair

Summary: Correctly count full GC operations for framework collectors. Add ForceFullGCJVMTIEpilogues as a future work around if needed.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, alanb, ysr

Summary: Check for NULL return values from jvmti_thread_state() and state_for() and return a JVM TI error code as appropriate.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, swamyv

Summary: First mercurial integration of the code for the Garbage-First garbage collector.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jmasa, sgoldman, tonyp, ysr