Summary: Enhance method resolution and resulting data structures, plus some refactoring.
Reviewed-by: twisti, acorn, jrose

8017571: JSR292: JVM crashing on assert "cast to instanceKlass" while producing MethodHandle for array methods with MethodHandle.findVirtual
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: The fix of perf regression is to use method_idnum() for direct indexing into NMT
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, coleenp, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Set vtable index as appropriate for static interface methods and for interface methods invoked via invokespecial. To be improved in a later enhancement to CallInfo.
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, hseigel

Summary: Lambda changes; spec 0.6.2 - remove the restriction that was added as part of recent changes made to support upcoming changes to compilation of lambda methods.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: Lazily create and maintain the MemberNameTable to be able to update MemberName's
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Lambda changes; spec 0.6.2 - Allow static invokestatic and invokespecial calls to InterfaceMethod_ref
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

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>

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart, kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, twisti

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

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Reviewed-by: twisti, roland, kvn, iveresov

Summary: Added feedback disabling flag to common(), fixed handling of TieredStopAtLevel.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

7049415: Failure of resolution of sym.reference to the c.s.s. should be wrapped in BootstrapMethodError
Summary: Delegate invokedynamic linkage errors to MethodHandleNatives.raiseException.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose

7044892: JSR 292: API entry points sometimes throw the wrong exceptions or doesn't throw the expected one
Summary: Fix to 7042656: JSR292: invokeExact/Generic doesn't throw UnsupportedOperationException if invoked via Method.invoke
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, never

Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Make MH verification tests more correct, robust, and informative.  Fix lingering symbol refcount problems.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: After appropriate testing, we need to turn on EnableMethodHandles and EnableInvokeDynamic by default.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, jrose, phh