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

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

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>

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

7024970: 2/3 assert(ServiceThread::is_service_thread(Thread::current())) failed: Service thread must post enqueue
Summary: Change nmethod_lock() to also prevent zombification of the nmethod. CompiledMethodUnload events also need to lock the nmethod. Clean ups in nmethod::make_not_entrant_or_zombie()
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kamg, never, dsamersoff, ysr, coleenp, acorn

Summary: Dynamic-code generated events should be deferred and processed by service thread
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, dcubed

6766644: Redefinition of compiled method fails with assertion "Can not load classes with the Compiler thread"
Summary: Defer posting events from the compiler thread: use service thread
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, never, dcubed

Summary: Rebuild breakpoint cache at gc_epilogue instead of during oops_do
Reviewed-by: dcubed, ysr, coleenp

Summary: Make JvmtiGCMark safe to run non-safepoint and instrument CMS
Reviewed-by: ysr, dcubed

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

Summary: Added an ifndef DONT_USE_PRECOMPILED_HEADER to precompiled.hpp. Set up DONT_USE_PRECOMPILED_HEADER when compiling with Sun Studio or when the user specifies USE_PRECOMPILED_HEADER=0. Fixed broken include dependencies.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn

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

Summary: reduce complexity by factoring synchronizer.cpp
Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, coleenp

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

Summary: Change JvmtiEnvBase::is_valid() and JvmtiRawMonitor::is_valid() to fetch the _magic fields via Bytes::get_native_u[248]().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, swamyv