Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, kamg, hosterda

Summary: Added new method inc_stat_counter() to increment long statistic values and use atomic long load and store.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, jrose, phh, never

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

Reviewed-by: mchung, acorn

6583275: Hotspot crash in vm_perform_shutdown_actions due to uninitialized TLS during out of memory handling
Summary: Call get_thread_slow() in vm_perform_shutdown actions and add null check.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, jcoomes

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

Summary: Fix the compiler error. Allow to build just c2 specifying FORCE_TIERED=0 on the command line.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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

Reviewed-by: kamg, ysr, dholmes, johnc

Summary: Add mechanism to ignore unsupported flags for a set period of time
Reviewed-by: acorn, never, coleenp

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: This fix enables the generation of core file when process runs out of C-heap.
Reviewed-by: sbohne

Summary: Remove -XX:+CacheTimeMillis option and associated functionality
Reviewed-by: acorn, never