Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

Summary: This is the renaming part of 6961697 to keep the actual changes small for review.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add JVM_CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic records to constant pool to determine per-instruction BSMs.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti

6965671: fatal error: acquiring lock JNIGlobalHandle_lock/16 out of order with lock CodeCache_lock/1
Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

Reviewed-by: dcubed, kvn, twisti

Summary: Add new CP types CONSTANT_MethodHandle, CONSTANT_MethodType; extend 'ldc' bytecode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

Summary: Add a stress-test flag for running MethodComparator over many inputs.  Fix bugs that crop up.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Change two uses of get_index_u2 to get_index_u2_cpcache; also tweak some debugging print functions
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Factored cleanup of instruction decode which prepares for enhanced ldc semantics.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Adjust MethodType lookup logic to search off the BCP, but not to cache those results
Reviewed-by: twisti

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

Reviewed-by: coleenp, never, gbenson

Summary: There are unimplemented portions of the hotspot code for method handles and invokedynamic specific to SPARC.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Reviewed-by: twisti, dcubed

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Some code cleanups found during the JSR 292 SPARC port.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Adding probes related to thread scheduling and class initialization
Reviewed-by: kamg, never

Summary: Passing a null pointer to an InvokeDynamic function call should lead to a NullPointerException.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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

Summary: Mark in PcDesc call sites which return oop and save the result oop across objects reallocation during deoptimization.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Rename can_post_exceptions support to can_post_on_exceptions. Add support for should_post_on_exceptions flag to permit per JavaThread optimizations.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, dcubed
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

6580131: 3/4 CompiledMethodLoad events don't produce the expected extra notifications to describe inlining
Summary: Add support for additional implementation specific info to the JVM/TI CompiledMethodLoad event via the compile_info parameter.
Reviewed-by: never, ohair, tbell, tdeneau
Contributed-by: NVasanth Venkatachalam <vasanth.venkatachalam@amd.com>

Summary: Put generated MH adapter in InvokeDynamic/MethodHandle classes to be able to indentify them easily in the compiler.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: C2 needs some additional optimizations to be able to handle MethodHandle invokes and invokedynamic instructions at the best performance.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6637203: Classunloading messages go to stdout rather than Xloggc file, causing hangs when stdout is closed
Summary: Decoupled TraceClassUnloading from verbose:gc, JVMTI_VERBOSE_GC and PrintGC[Details], making it settable in a manner identical to TraceClassLoading. Reverted an inadvertent change of TraceClassUnloading output in a previous changeset from gclog back to tty.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, jmasa, poonam

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

6895168: JCK api/signaturetest/sigtest.basic.html#basic test fails for jdk 5.0 with HS 16 in nightly build
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, jrose

Summary: If a JVMTI agent asks for version 1.0, then it should get version 1.0 semantics.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohair

Summary: Return error on invalid JVMTI_PHASE instead of asserting.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohair