Summary: use method cpref and klass version to provide meaningful methods name in stacktraces
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: note all MemberNames created on internal list for adjusting method entries.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, lfoltan

Summary: Add classLoader to java/lang/Class instance for fast access
Reviewed-by: alanb, lfoltan, rriggs, vlivanov, twisti, jfranck

Reviewed-by: coleenp, pliden

Summary: Keep class in CLD::_klasses list and mirror created for CDS classes if OOM during restore_shareable_info(). This keeps pointers consistent for CMS.
Reviewed-by: ehelin, stefank, jmasa, iklam

Summary: Implementation of JEP 192, http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/192
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl, coleenp

Summary: Add -XX:+VerifyStringTableAtExit option and code to verify StringTable invariants.
Reviewed-by: rdurbin, sspitsyn, coleenp

Summary: Restore the appendix argument after PopFrame() call
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: JVM_SetProtectionDomain has been deprecated since 1.5 and is being removed
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

Summary: Inject protection_domain, signers, init_lock into java_lang_Class
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, sla

Summary: Instead of terminating the VM, throw OutOfMemoryError exceptions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Lazily create and maintain the MemberNameTable to be able to update MemberName's
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: acorn, hawtin

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Remove Method* from backtrace but save version so redefine classes doesn't give inaccurate line numbers.  Removed old Merlin API with duplicate code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Add hotspot support for parameter reflection
Reviewed-by: acorn, jrose, coleenp
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: joel.franck@oracle.com

Summary: renamed to hash_code
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, brutisso
Contributed-by: erik.helin@oracle.com

Summary: Add ClassLoaderData object for each anonymous class with metaspaces to allocate in.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, stefank

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: 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: Use an alternate version of hashing algorithm for symbol string tables and after a certain bucket size to improve performance
Reviewed-by: pbk, kamg, dlong, kvn, fparain

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

Summary: Allow a version of String class that doesn't have count and offset fields.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Reviewed-by: twisti, roland, kvn, iveresov

Summary: Update the OOME stacktrace to contain Throwable.UNASSIGNED_STACK when the backtrace is filled in
Reviewed-by: mchung, phh

Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

Summary: Handle stack overflow before the first frame is called, by printing out the called method and not walking the stack.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, phh, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: kvn, kamg, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

Summary: package and class renaming only; delete unused methods and classes
Reviewed-by: twisti

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

Summary: Tag allocated memory with a magic value and verify when releasing.
Reviewed-by: phh, stefank