8029436: CICompilerCount is not updated when the number of compiler threads is adjusted to the number of CPUs
Summary: CICompilerCount is updated in AdvancedThresholdPolicy::initialize, SimpleThresholdPolicy::initialize and NonTieredCompPolicy::initialize. A warning is printed if the usersets both, CICompilerCount and CICompilerCountPerCPU.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NTobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann@oracle.com>

Summary: Change the assert to if check as MethodCounters could be NULL under TieredCompilation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Allocate the method's profiling related metadata until they are needed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

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>

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Make sure that CompilationPolicy::event() doesn't throw exceptions
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Move the inlinee invoke notification callback into inlinee preamble
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Added feedback disabling flag to common(), fixed handling of TieredStopAtLevel.
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

Summary: Take into account current state of profiling before believing that existing higher level versions are valid
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Fixed the warning, also fixed copyrights in a bunch of files.
Reviewed-by: johnc, kvn

Summary: Tiered needs to support proper method reprofiling after deopts.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Fix policy reaction to C1 comilation failures, make C1 properly report errors.
Reviewed-by: 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