Summary: support for strings that have same life-time as code that uses them.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Zero metadata in constructors, not in allocation (and some in constructors)
Reviewed-by: jmasa, sspitsyn

Summary: Zero Symbol* for constant pool strings to indicate pseudo_strings (objects that aren't strings).  Clean up JVM_CONSTANT_Object and unused flags.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, jrose

8009761: Deoptimization on sparc doesn't set Llast_SP correctly in the interpreter frames it creates
Summary: deoptimization doesn't set up callee frames so that they restore caller frames correctly.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: removed unused IA64 specific code
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, dholmes

Summary: Added on_stack bit to flags.  Also MetadataMarkOnStack is used for more than JVMTI so had to be moved.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, stefank

Summary: Use methodHandle.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, twisti, sspitsyn

8005494: SIGSEGV in Rewriter::relocate_and_link() when testing Weblogic with CompressedOops and KlassPtrs
Summary: Relocate functions with jsr's when rewriting so not repeated after reading shared archive
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: When java process crashed in compiler thread, repeat the compilation process will help finding root cause. This is done with using SA dump application class data and replay data from core dump, then use debug version of jvm to recompile the problematic java method.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Change types of above methods and field to InstanceKlass and remove unneeded casts from the source files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Disallow non-virtual calls even when ACC_SUPER is absent.
Reviewed-by: kvn, acorn

8001658: No need to pass resolved_references as argument to ConstantPoolCacheEntry::set_method_handle_common
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NBharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, twisti
Contributed-by: NRoman Kennke <rkennke@redhat.com>

Summary: Add generic type analysis and default method selection algorithms
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

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

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

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

Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, jmasa, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, 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>

7192406: JSR 292: C2 needs exact return type information for invokedynamic and invokehandle call sites
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

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: kvn, never

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: use x87 instructions to implement exp() and pow() in interpreter/c1/c2.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti

Summary: Pass the codeBuffer to the Stub constructor, and adapts the disassembler to print the comments.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

Summary: Make sure that CompilationPolicy::event() doesn't throw exceptions
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kvn

7094138: JSR 292: JRuby junit test fails in CallSite.setTargetNormal: obj->is_oop() failed: sanity check
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

Summary: InterpreterRuntime::popframe_move_outgoing_args() is required for the ARM interpreter.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti