Summary: Restore the appendix argument after PopFrame() call
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, hseigel

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

Summary: Add the -Wunused-function flag and remove a number of unused functions.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, kvn

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

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>

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

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

Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, jmasa, kvn

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>

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>

Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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

7094138: JSR 292: JRuby junit test fails in CallSite.setTargetNormal: obj->is_oop() failed: sanity check
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

Summary: InterpreterRuntime::popframe_move_outgoing_args() is required for the ARM interpreter.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

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: jrose, twisti, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, jrose

Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

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

Summary: Write method signature handler under lock to prevent race with growable array resizing
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

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

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, kvn, dcubed

Summary: Reuse set_method_data_for_bcp() to setup mdp after MDO creation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Fixed a race condition in the assertion caused by an unguarded, concurrent access to a GrowableArray object.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, dsamersoff
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

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

Summary: Allow CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic nodes to have any number of extra operands.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: never

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