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

Summary: Don't use HS_DTRACE_PROBE_CDECL_N and HS_DTRACE_PROBE_N directly.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, dholmes, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: NMark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>

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

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

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: acorn, kamg, sspitsyn, dholmes

Summary: Added a nop tracing infrastructure, JFR makefile changes and other infrastructure used only by JFR.
Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: markus.gronlund@oracle.com

Summary: Fixed G1CollectedHeap::is_in, added tests, cleaned up comments and made Space::is_in pure virtual.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp, jcoomes

Summary: arrayOopDesc::max_array_length() should return a value that does not overflow a size_t if it is converted to bytes.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes

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: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, jwilhelm, kvn

Summary: Also reviewed by mikael.gerdin@oracle.com; stdlib:qsort() does byte-by-byte swapping on Windows. This leads to pointer shearing. Fix is to implement a quicksort that does full pointer updates.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp, ysr

Summary: A referent object that is only weakly reachable at the start of concurrent marking but is re-attached to the strongly reachable object graph during marking may not be marked as live. This can cause the reference object to be processed prematurely and leave dangling pointers to the referent object. Implement a read barrier for the java.lang.ref.Reference::referent field by intrinsifying the Reference.get() method, and intercepting accesses though JNI, reflection, and Unsafe, so that when a non-null referent object is read it is also logged in an SATB buffer.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, never, tonyp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

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: move functions from hpi library to hotspot, communicate with licensees and open source community, check jdk for dependency, file CCC request
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, dsamersoff

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

Summary: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, apetrusenko, never, dcubed

Summary: Move creating stack guard pages in jni attach thread before potential java call rather than after. Also cleanup stack guard pages when jni attach fails
Reviewed-by: never, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Zero currently won't build on zSeries or PowerPC machines with assertions turned on.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Fix the shadowing and incorrect macro usages
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: kamg, phh

Reviewed-by: xlu, mchung

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

6791815: Fix for 6471657 can cause deadlock on non-Solaris platforms when initializing direct buffer support
Summary: Place the state transition inside the loop so that the VMThread could proceed for safepoint
Reviewed-by: dholmes, never, acorn

Summary: Make reguard_stack change access to RW, not execute and use os::protect_memory with the new parameter when change needed to X.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jcoomes

Summary: allocate alignment-sized page(s) below java heap so that memory accesses at heap_base+1page give signal and cause an implicit null check
Reviewed-by: kvn, jmasa, phh, jcoomes

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

Summary: This fix enables the generation of core file when process runs out of C-heap.
Reviewed-by: sbohne

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold