Summary: added #includes needed for ppc64 port. Renamed _MODEL_ppc to _MODEL_ppc_32 and renamed corresponding old _ppc files to _ppc_32.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn

Summary: Added command line parameter to define a threshold at which C1 compilation threshold for  is increased.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Walk the compiledIC relocation records to keep Method* from being deallocated.
Reviewed-by: dlong, kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, hseigel

Summary: Keep sweeping regardless of if we are flushing
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: refactored code to allow platform-specific differences
Reviewed-by: dlong, twisti
Contributed-by: NGoetz Lindenmaier <goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com>

Summary: Remove continous free block requirement
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to nmethod constructor and checks to ensure CodeCache has space before allocation
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to set_to_interpreted()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: support for strings that have same life-time as code that uses them.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: ASSERT and other symbols used incorrectly with #if are supposed to be defined or not.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael

Summary: Adding more detailed output on CodeCache usage
Reviewed-by: kvn, vladidan
Contributed-by: NAlexander Harlap <alexander.harlap@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: When java process crashed in compiler thread, repeat the compilation process will help finding root cause. This is done with using SA dump application class data and replay data from core dump, then use debug version of jvm to recompile the problematic java method.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

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: Add generic type analysis and default method selection algorithms
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Move decoding into Dependencies::DepStream::argument, so no caller could see encoded context value (NULL) anymore.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Removed the unused keep_alive parameter
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, kamg, coleenp

Summary: There was a rogue os::breakpoint() call in log_dependency left over from the jsr292 merge.  Also changed verify_oop() calls for metadata to verify_{method,klass}_ptr.
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: renamed mach nodes which use scalar AVX instructions, added integer vectors shuffling instructions
Reviewed-by: twisti

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: Increase vector size up to 256-bits for YMM AVX registers on x86.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, roland

Summary: Pass the codeBuffer to the Stub constructor, and adapts the disassembler to print the comments.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

Summary: Save whole XMM/YMM registers in safepoint interrupt handler.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, bdelsart

Summary: Tiered compilation has increased the number of nmethods in the code cache. This has, in turn, significantly increased the number of marked nmethods processed during the StrongRootsScope destructor. Create a specialized version of CodeBlobToOopClosure for G1 which places only those nmethods that contain pointers into the collection set on to the marked nmethods list.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

7154670: The instanceKlass _implementors[] and _nof_implementors are not needed for non-interface klass.
Summary: Change implementor to embedded instanceKlass field.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, minqi, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, kevinw, brutisso, twisti, jmasa

Reviewed-by: phh, bobv, coleenp, dcubed
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Summary: Reduce class runtime memory usage by packing 4 instanceKlass boolean fields into single u1 field. Save 4-byte for each loaded class.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, bobv, phh, twisti, never, coleenp
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: Integrate bsd-port/hotspot and macosx-port/hotspot changes as of 2011.09.29.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, never, phh
Contributed-by: NChristos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Kurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Alexander Strange &lt;astrange@apple.com&gt;, Mike Swingler &lt;swingler@apple.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Victor Hernandez &lt;vhernandez@apple.com&gt;, Pratik Solanki <psolanki@apple.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: kvn