Summary: Re-application of the change in JDK-8152271.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Use Patching_lock to synchronize access between set_code() and clear_code().
Reviewed-by: kvn, dlong

Summary: Fix method searches to handle static, private instance and overpass
Reviewed-by: acorn

Reviewed-by: hseigel

Summary: Behavior of strncmp may be unexpected if char buffers[s] is[are] not null terminated and buffer size is smaller than the length n. Added check to avoid this scenario.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, iklam

Reviewed-by: rprotacio

Reviewed-by: acorn, mschoene, ctornqvi
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

8042660: vm/mlvm/anonloader/stress/byteMutation failed with: assert(index >=0 && index < _length) failed: symbol index overflow
Summary: Detect zero length signatures and throw ClassFormatError before bad dereference occurs
Reviewed-by: hseigel

Reviewed-by: acorn, mschoene
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: acorn, mschoene
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: rprotacio

Summary: MetadataOnStackMark must be done before calling free_deallocate_list().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: acorn, jdn
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: acorn, jdn
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Guarantee is to ensure classloader is a valid oop will help catch the errors at an early stage rather than crashing the JVM later on in the GC
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel, mschoene

Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr

Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr

Reviewed-by: stuefe, coleenp, roland

Summary: Add intrinsics for BigInteger squareToLen and mulAdd methods.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Summary: for fixing a truncation problem on the output from -XX:+TraceClassPaths
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jiangli, cjplummer, minqi

Summary: Remove ResourceMark in StackMapReader::parse_verification_type() to avoid freeing of error message.
Reviewed-by: zmajo, dcubed, hseigel

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Optimize the method pointer adjustments for prev klass versions and MNT
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jrose, ahgross, alanb, bmoloden

Reviewed-by: jrose, ahgross, alanb, bmoloden

Summary: For *store bytecodes, compare incoming, not outgoing, type state with exception handlers' stack maps.
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes

8046246: the constantPoolCacheOopDesc::adjust_method_entries() used in RedefineClasses does not scale
Summary: optimize the adjust_method_entries functions by using the orig_method_idnum() function
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: use method cpref and klass version to provide meaningful methods name in stacktraces
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

8072863: Replace fatal() with vm_exit_during_initialization() when an incorrect class is found on the bootclasspath
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: NCheleswer Sahu <cheleswer.sahu@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, stefank

Reviewed-by: hseigel, lfoltan, coleenp, ahgross

Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, poonam

Summary: note all MemberNames created on internal list for adjusting method entries.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, lfoltan

Reviewed-by: sla, stefank

Summary: use correct CHECK macro in call to load_class()
Reviewed-by: coleenp, lfoltan, gziemski