Reviewed-by: kevinw, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: stuefe, coleenp, roland

Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Reviewed-by: roland, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: call to Object.finalize() sometimes allowed by compilers on array type
Reviewed-by: iveresov, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: iveresov, roland

Summary: Introduce the PreserveFramePointer flag to control if RBP is used as the frame pointer or as a general purpose register.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, dlong, enevill, shade

Summary: method handle call to c1 intrinsic tries to profile popped argument
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: call to Object.finalize() sometimes allowed by compilers on array type
Reviewed-by: iveresov, vlivanov

Summary: when unique callee is known at compile time, recorded class may be wrong
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: receiver type collected by profiling for default method may be interface
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Put a band-aid to disable CHA-based inlining for interfaces with default methods in C1
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for parameters on method entries
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for return values at calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for arguments at calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: use adr_at() to access inline info structures in growableArray. Add ability to specify print inlining per method.
Reviewed-by: twisti

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

8022283: Assertion failed: assert(is_loaded() && field->holder()->is_loaded() && klass()->is_subclass_of (field->holder())) failed: invalid access
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

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

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov
Contributed-by: NIgor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>

Summary: avoid printing inlining decision when compilation fails
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Add three memory-ordering intrinsics to the sun.misc.Unsafe class.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: Removed will_link and changed all calls to is_loaded().
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add LogCompilation support in C1 - both client and tiered mode.
Reviewed-by: 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>

7192406: JSR 292: C2 needs exact return type information for invokedynamic and invokehandle call sites
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland, jrose

Summary: In C2 add software membar after load from Reference.referent field to prevent commoning of loads across safepoint since GC can change its value. In C1 always generate Reference.get() intrinsic.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti, dholmes, johnc

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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: Add annotation extraction code to class file parser.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, kvn
Contributed-by: michael.haupt@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.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>