Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, sla

Summary: Added API to track bootclasspath modification
Reviewed-by: jiangli, dholmes, minqi

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

Summary: Revert changes in JDK-8008962
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Re-use InstanceKlass::_init_lock locking ConstantPool as well.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn

Summary: Removed depreciated kernel VM source code from hotspot VM
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp

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

Summary: Change types of above methods and field to InstanceKlass and remove unneeded casts from the source files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

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: sspitsyn, dholmes, coleenp, kamg

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 ClassFileParser::parseClassFile() to use the instanceKlass:_cached_class_file_bytes field to avoid leaking the cache.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, poonam

7103224: collision between __LEAF define in interfaceSupport.hpp and /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h with gcc
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: NOmair Majid <omajid@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

Summary: use java_lang_String::create_from_platform_dependent_str() instead of java_lang_String::create_from_str() in JvmtiEnv::AddToSystemClassLoaderSearch()
Reviewed-by: dcubed

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

Summary: Track allocated bytes in Thread's, update on TLAB retirement and direct allocation in Eden and tenured, add JNI methods for ThreadMXBean.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, dholmes, ysr

Summary: Add 'GetThisObject' function
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

6637203: Classunloading messages go to stdout rather than Xloggc file, causing hangs when stdout is closed
Summary: Decoupled TraceClassUnloading from verbose:gc, JVMTI_VERBOSE_GC and PrintGC[Details], making it settable in a manner identical to TraceClassLoading. Reverted an inadvertent change of TraceClassUnloading output in a previous changeset from gclog back to tty.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, jmasa, poonam

Summary: If a JVMTI agent asks for version 1.0, then it should get version 1.0 semantics.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohair

Summary: Return error on invalid JVMTI_PHASE instead of asserting.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohair

Summary: Check for NULL return values from jvmti_thread_state() and state_for() and return a JVM TI error code as appropriate.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, swamyv