Summary: Remove the SharedSkipVerify flag
Reviewed-by: kamg, sspitsyn, coleenp
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Remove buggy experimental option
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Change the flags and variables related to tenuring threshold to be unsigned
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Reviewed-by: johnc

Reviewed-by: brutisso, neliasso

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

8000230: Change os::print_location to be more descriptive when a location is pointing into an object
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, twisti

Summary: Added missed _bottom_type set in ArchDesc::defineExpand() and missed vector nodes in MatchRule::is_vector().
Reviewed-by: twisti, roland, dlong

Summary: The warnings associated with the UseMemSetInBOT flag are duplicated in CMS and G1. The separate warnings have been removed and single instance of the warning has been placed in a common location.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr

Summary: Print out statistics of collected NMT data if it is on at VM exits
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti

Summary: Solaris only, record stack info to NMT after stack size adjustment was made for primordial threads
Reviewed-by: kvn, acorn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla, fparain
Contributed-by: NDmytro Sheyko <dmytro_sheyko@hotmail.com>

Summary: Move the first part of the GC logging, including timestamp, to the start of the GC
Reviewed-by: johnc, jwilhelm

Summary: Thread stack's base address can be NULL if it is not started or exited before recording the base
Reviewed-by: kvn, fparain

7181995: NMT ON: NMT assertion failure assert(cur_vm->is_uncommit_record() || cur_vm->is_deallocation_record
Summary: Fixed virtual memory records merge and promotion logic, should be based on sequence number vs. base address order
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

7196103: NPG: Unable to allocate bit map for parallel garbage collection for the requested heap size
Summary: Don't allocate huge class metaspace size by default on x64
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, kvn

Summary: Simple renaming to be consistent with instanceKlass->InstanceKlass renaming
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

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>

Summary: Added capability to load support classes for other cpus
Reviewed-by: coleenp, bobv, sla
Contributed-by: NBill Pittore <bill.pittore@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: NTao Mao <tao.mao@oracle.com>

7178363: G1: Remove the serial code for PrintGCDetails and make it a special case of the parallel code
Summary: Also reviewed by vitalyd@gmail.com. Introduced the WorkerDataArray class. Fixed some minor logging bugs.
Reviewed-by: johnc, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Provide additional detail in VerifyError messages
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, acorn

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>

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dholmes, coleenp, kamg

Summary: Updated core path location to reflect macosx default
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kamg

Summary: change hotspot flag to be unsigned
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla, fparain, brutisso
Contributed-by: NChris Dennis <cdennis@terracottatech.com>

Summary: Send warnings to output stream
Reviewed-by: dholmes, fparain

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

Summary: Change constMethodOop::_exception_table to optionally inlined u2 table.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, coleenp, kamg

Summary: In fieldDescriptor::generic_signature() returns NULL immediately if the field has no generic signature.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Summary: Increase vector size up to 256-bits for YMM AVX registers on x86.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, roland

Summary: Use an alternate version of hashing algorithm for symbol string tables and after a certain bucket size to improve performance
Reviewed-by: pbk, kamg, dlong, kvn, fparain

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Summary: Eliminate constMethod's _method backpointer to methodOop, and move the _constant field from methodOop to constMethod.
Reviewed-by: roland, bdelsart, kamg

Summary: Simplify code, remove unused code, remove ExitAfterGCNum
Reviewed-by: huntch, johnc

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kamg

7168280: Eliminate the generic signature index slot from field array for field without generic signature.
Summary: Only allocate the generic signature index slot in the field array for field with generic signature attribute.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dlong