Summary: smaller shared changes required to build the C2 compiler on PPC64.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: extends MachCall nodes so that they can issue constants to the constant table
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: added ability in C2 to expand mach nodes to several mach nodes after register allocation
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Similar to specifying functions returning constants (as ins_avoid_back_to_back()) adlc now accepts specifications with prefix ins_field_xxx(tp) and adds field xxx of type tp to the node.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

Summary: several changes to adlc to improve its usability
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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>

Summary: abstracted way to declare that the MachNode has the effect of a call (kills caller save registers, preserves callee save registers)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: save/restore label and block in scratch_emit_size()
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Use new short branch instruction in C2 generated code.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Remove flags which duplicate information in Node::NodeClasses.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add new short branch instruction to Hotspot sparc assembler.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jrose

Summary: oops should be loaded from the constant table of an nmethod instead of materializing them with a long code sequence.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: I have collected some typos I have found while looking at the code.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Some fixes which are required to build on recent GCCs.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn
Contributed-by: langel@redhat.com

Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

Summary: fixed few addP node type and narrow oop type problems.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold