Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: refactor close to remove references to closed ports
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis, sgehwolf, dholmes

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ehelin, brutisso, coleenp, roland, iveresov
Contributed-by: stefan.karlsson@oracle.com, mikael.gerdin@oracle.com

8043029: Change 8037816 breaks HS build with older GCC versions which don't support diagnostic pragmas
8043164: Format warning in traceStream.hpp
Summary: Backport of main fix + two corrections, enables clang compilation, turns on format attributes, corrects/mutes warnings
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, iveresov, twisti

Summary: do not update exception cache if exception is replaced when thrown
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

8005173: assert(false) failed: DEBUG MESSAGE: exception oop must be empty (macroAssembler_x86.cpp:625)
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Enable patching for load_appendix_id.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dlong, bdelsart

Summary: Enable CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS in fastdebug builds across all supported platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, dholmes, stefank, twisti, ihse, rdurbin
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Enhance method resolution and resulting data structures, plus some refactoring.
Reviewed-by: twisti, acorn, jrose

Summary: Do patching rather bailing out for unlinked call with appendix
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Add a list of nmethods to the RSet for a region that contain references into the region. Skip scanning the code cache during root scanning and scan the nmethod lists during RSet scanning instead.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso, mgerdin, twisti, kvn

Summary: add intrinsics using new instruction to interpreter, C1, C2, for suitable x86; add test
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: With NPG, const KlassOop klass which is in fact a definition converted to Klass* const, which is not the original intention. The right usage is converting them to const Klass*.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: when possible optimize out array bound checks, inserting predicates when needed.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: Nthomaswue <thomas.wuerthinger@oracle.com>

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

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

Summary: Class.cast which calls Class.isInstance is heavily used by the new JSR 292 implementation
Reviewed-by: roland
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <rednaxelafx@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: sla, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, kevinw, brutisso, twisti, jmasa

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

Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

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: The change avoids generating relocation info entry for the staging area patching stub on systems that don't support movw/movt instructions
Reviewed-by: bdelsart

Summary: better static analysis. Take advantage of array copy stubs.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

7012914: JSR 292 MethodHandlesTest C1: frame::verify_return_pc(return_address) failed: must be a return pc
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, kvn, dcubed

Summary: This change implements compressed oops for C1 for x64 and sparc. The changes are mostly on the codegen level, with a few exceptions when we do access things outside of the heap that are uncompressed from the IR. Compressed oops are now also enabled with tiered.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, phh

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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: 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: Modify assembler code to check for 0 count for all copy routines.
Reviewed-by: never, ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Add new CP types CONSTANT_MethodHandle, CONSTANT_MethodType; extend 'ldc' bytecode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: Enable parallel compilation in C1
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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