Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: add guarantee() to disqualify_method()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Check for exception during SystemDictionary::resolve_instance_class_or_null() and clean up.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, hseigel, minqi
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Summary: Store metadata on ClassFileParser instance to be cleaned up by destructor.  This enabled some refactoring of the enormous parseClassFile function.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, acorn

Summary: -Xshare:dump was creating a Symbol in C_heap.  There's an assert there that jdk jprt wasn't hitting because it was only done in product
Reviewed-by: dholmes, hseigel, iklam

Summary: Disable @Contended support for static fields
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: SystemDictionary::find(...) should not create and register ClassLoaderData objects for class loaders.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn
Contributed-by: NStefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin <erik.helin@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com

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

Summary: Fix off-by-one error
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

8006907: Hotspot should reject classfiles with multiple MethodParameters attributes
Summary: Update to Hotspot's processing of MethodParameters attributes in classfiles
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose

Summary: jcmd <pid> GC.class_stats (UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions)
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, sla, acorn
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Summary: Removed depreciated kernel VM source code from hotspot VM
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: treat anonymous classes as privileged code to restore the special handling for @Compiled during class file parsing
Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, kvn, dholmes

Summary: Added on_stack bit to flags.  Also MetadataMarkOnStack is used for more than JVMTI so had to be moved.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, stefank

Summary: Use SSE4.2 and AVX2 instructions for encodeArray intrinsic.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: misc correctness fixes
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, dice, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: dave.dice@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp

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: brutisso, jfranck

Summary: Also reviewed by: vitalyd@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: This patch addresses an alignment trap due to the storage format of method parameters data in constMethod.  It also adds code to validate constant pool indexes for method parameters data.
Reviewed-by: jrose, dholmes
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

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

Summary: Reduce scope of placeholder table entries to improve cleanup
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Fix verifier for new interface access flags
Reviewed-by: acorn, kvn
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com

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

Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Fix java names for getAndSet intrinsics
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com

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

Summary: Add three memory-ordering intrinsics to the sun.misc.Unsafe class.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

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

Summary: Move the handelization of 'last' to a point before the GC might enter.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, coleenp

Summary: Add klass_holder() to return either mirror or class_loader depending on if the class is anonymous or not.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jrose

Reviewed-by: johnc, coleenp

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

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, 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: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp