Summary: Removed the unused keep_alive parameter
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, kamg, coleenp

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>

6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: NJohn Rose &lt;john.r.rose@oracle.com&gt;, Christian Thalinger &lt;christian.thalinger@oracle.com&gt;, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@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

Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

Summary: Eliminate the race condition.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use largest_free_block() instead of unallocated_capacity().
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never, ysr

Summary: remove clear_scratch_buffer_blob and let init_scratch_buffer_blob free and allocate a new blob if required.
Reviewed-by: twisti

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, dholmes, coleenp

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: This moves the oops from Codeblob to nmethod.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: never, kvn
Contributed-by: eric.caspole@amd.com

Summary: ScavengeRootsInCode can lead to unfixed code-embedded oops.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Speculatively unload the oldest nmethods when code cache gets full.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn
Contributed-by: eric.caspole@amd.com

Summary: Make a special root-list for those few nmethods which might contain non-perm oops.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, jmasa, ysr