Summary: Zero Symbol* for constant pool strings to indicate pseudo_strings (objects that aren't strings).  Clean up JVM_CONSTANT_Object and unused flags.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, jrose

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgronlun

Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, sspitsyn, rbackman

Reviewed-by: mgronlun, sla, dholmes

Summary: allocate method annotations and attach to ConstMethod if present
Reviewed-by: dcubed, jiangli, sspitsyn, iklam

8006423: SA: NullPointerException in sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.bsd.BsdThread.getContext(BsdThread.java:67)
Summary: Do not rely on mach thread port names to identify threads from SA
Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi, rbackman

Summary: After bug 7161732, On Windows SA could not find correct address of thread_id of OSThread since _thread_id moved to end of the class . The presupposition of the address is following thread handle no longer stands. Fix by adding thread_id field to OSThread and getting the  address directly from OSThread.
Reviewed-by: nloodin, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: When calculating live object regions, make sure that the alignment reserve, at the end of a TLAB, is excluded.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: removed unused IA64 specific code
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, dholmes

Summary: BinaryTreeDictionary is typedef'ed as AFLBinaryTreeDictionary in vmStructs and in SA we still use old name for that. FreeList now is a template based class which is not reflect in SA type library. When SA does calculation of heap for CMS, the former will cause failure to retrieve BinaryTreeDictionary  sine the rename. The later will fail wherever it is used in SA.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla, coleenp
Contributed-by: yunda.mly@taobao.com

Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: HotSpot changes to support @Contended annotation.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, jrose
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Move _max_locals and _size_of_parameters to ConstMethod for better sharing.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, minqi, jrose

8003848: Make ConstMethod::generic_signature_index optional and move Method::_max_stack to ConstMethod.
Summary: Make ConstMethod::generic_signature_index optional and move Method::_max_stack to ConstMethod.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, sspitsyn, coleenp

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: 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: This is a mistake change in 6879063 about Bytes.swap. Java byte code order always follows big endian, but in that change, assume they follow native platform order that is not right.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn, dholmes
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: After permgen removal, constant pool changed to put _ldc and _ldc_w (fast_ldc and fast_ldcw) index to reference map, no longer calculated via constant pool cache.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn, dholmes
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

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

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

Summary: In ClassWrite.writeFields(), fields count was mistakenly set to fields length which overflow the array index. Also removed a file which is leftover from 6879063 changeset.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

Summary: We should in SA to use hsdis for it like the JVM does to replace the current java based disassembler.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, sla
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Fixed copyrights
Reviewed-by: dholmes
Contributed-by: NBill Pittore <bill.pittore@oracle.com>

Summary: Simple renaming to be consistent with instanceKlass->InstanceKlass renaming
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

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>

Summary: Added capability to load support classes for other cpus
Reviewed-by: coleenp, bobv, sla
Contributed-by: NBill Pittore <bill.pittore@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>

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 constMethodOop::_exception_table to optionally inlined u2 table.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, coleenp, kamg

Summary: Bug fix of 7126277 changed hashing algorithm and also changed key as final field, this led SA unable to set correct value for key. Solution by reading key/value and insert them into the new table.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: String offset and count fields as fix of 6924259 were removed, and become optional. SA still use offset and count fields to read String contents and failed. Fix if they exist, use them other then use value field only to read, this keeps consistent with the changes in 6924259.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: While looking for the sender frame check that the frame pointer should not be less than the stack pointer.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

Summary: Eliminate constMethod's _method backpointer to methodOop, and move the _constant field from methodOop to constMethod.
Reviewed-by: roland, bdelsart, kamg

7168280: Eliminate the generic signature index slot from field array for field without generic signature.
Summary: Only allocate the generic signature index slot in the field array for field with generic signature attribute.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dlong

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, sla, minqi, kvn