Summary: With NPG, const KlassOop klass which is in fact a definition converted to Klass* const, which is not the original intention. The right usage is converting them to const Klass*.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Constrain between zero and 8K
Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: Set vtable index as appropriate for static interface methods and for interface methods invoked via invokespecial. To be improved in a later enhancement to CallInfo.
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Summary: Remove command line restriction.  It should just work.
Reviewed-by: ctornqvi, coleenp, dholmes

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

Summary: Update JNIEXPORT and JNIIMPORT to work with other compilers that don't necessarily have the __attribute__ type qualifier
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Clear out class_file_bytes so they aren't deallocated twice
Reviewed-by: dcubed, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

8013120: NMT: Kitchensink crashes with assert(next_region == NULL || !next_region->is_committed_region()) failed: Sanity check
Summary: Fixed NMT to deal with releasing virtual memory region when there are still committed regions within it
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp

8013648: Guarantee(VerifyBeforeGC || VerifyDuringGC || VerifyBeforeExit || VerifyAfterGC) failed: too expensive
Summary: Fix code to call correct version of function find_class().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rdurbin, dcubed

Reviewed-by: acorn, sla

Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: mchung, hseigel, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

Summary: remove unused parameter in dtrace macros
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: albert.noll@oracle.com

Summary: Do not treat static methods as miranda methods.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: Auto adjust number of stack guard pages on systems with large memory page size
Reviewed-by: bobv, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, hseigel

Summary: Grab and drop SR_lock to get the thread to honor the safepoint protocol
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Reserved memory had PROT_READ+PROT_WRITE access on Linux/bsd, now changed to PROT_NONE.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ctornqvi

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

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

8013129: Possible deadlock with Metaspace locks due to mixed usage of safepoint aware and non-safepoint aware locking
Summary: Change Metaspace::deallocate to take lock with _no_safepoint_check_flag
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, alanb, cjplummer, olagneau
Contributed-by: NCarlos Lucasius <carlos.lucasius@oracle.com>

Summary: Change the assert to if check as MethodCounters could be NULL under TieredCompilation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Summary: Remove support for parsing class files with four-byte flags fields in MethodParameters attributes
Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgerdin

Summary: remove unused constructors and helper methods for ReservedHeapSpace and ReservedSpace
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jmasa, johnc, tschatzl

Summary: Re-use InstanceKlass::_init_lock locking ConstantPool as well.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: References from operands to CP entries and back must be correct after CP merge
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

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

Summary: Change jmpb() to jmp().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rdurbin, dcubed

Summary: Call this function from the ClassLoaderData destructor instead of the system dictionary walk.
Reviewed-by: stefank, mgerdin

Summary: Made NMT query safepoint aware.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso