Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Summary: Add convenience method in StringTable, add WhiteBox method and simple sanity test
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, zgu
Contributed-by: leonid.mesnik@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Summary: Add WB API functions to enable better NMT testing
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu

Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

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>

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgronlun, rbackman

Reviewed-by: brutisso, sla, mgerdin

Summary: Add an internal testing API to HotSpot to enable more targeted testing of vm functionality
Reviewed-by: phh, dholmes