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

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

Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: split MethodHandle.invoke into invokeExact and invokeGeneric; also clean up JVM-to-Java interfaces
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: During the work for 6829187 we have fixed a number of basic bugs which are logically grouped with 6815692 and 6858164 but which must be reviewed and pushed separately.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: We need a way to walk chained method handles in the JVM to call the right methods and to generate required bytecode adapters for the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fix several crashers, remove needless paths for boxed-style bootstrap method call, refactor & simplify APIs for rewriter constantPoolOop, remove sun.dyn.CallSiteImpl
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: correctly raise exceptions, support safe bitwise "raw" conversions, fix bugs revealed by VerifyMethodHandles, remove dead code, improve debugging support
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: initial implementation, with known omissions (x86/64, sparc, compiler optim., c-oops, C++ interp.)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, never

Summary: preparatory but separable changes for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 03/09
Reviewed-by: katleman, tbell, ohair

Summary: VM support for deadlock fix. Library fix in 4735126. See API proposal.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, blacklion

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: Use the gap also for a narrow oop field and a boxing object value.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never

Summary: combine many scalar variables into a single enum-indexed array in SystemDictionary.
Reviewed-by: kvn