Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, ahgross, acorn, vlivanov

Summary: Adds a missing null check (guarantee) found by Parfait.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, shade

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mschoene
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kevinw, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kevinw, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

8026335: hs_err improvement: Print exact compressed oops mode and the heap base value.
8026331: hs_err improvement: Print if we have seen any OutOfMemoryErrors or StackOverflowErrors
Summary: Add requested things to hs_err file.
Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Null the InterpreterRuntime::member_name_arg_or_null return value when it is necessary
Reviewed-by: jbachorik, coleenp, twisti

Summary: Interpreter::remove_activation_entry() is not defined for the C++ interpreter
Reviewed-by: roland, coleenp
Contributed-by: NSeverin Gehwolf <sgehwolf@redhat.com>

Summary: OOM during reallocation of scalar replaced objects in deoptimization causes crashes
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, sspitsyn

8043029: Change 8037816 breaks HS build with older GCC versions which don't support diagnostic pragmas
8043164: Format warning in traceStream.hpp
Summary: Backport of main fix + two corrections, enables clang compilation, turns on format attributes, corrects/mutes warnings
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, iveresov, twisti

Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Summary: Implement profiling for c2 jit compilation. Also enable new cppInterpreter features.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Restore the appendix argument after PopFrame() call
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, hseigel

Summary: Allocate the method's profiling related metadata until they are needed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Summary: Add the -Wunused-function flag and remove a number of unused functions.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, kvn

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

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: jrose, kvn

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

Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, jmasa, kvn

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>

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

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

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

Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart