Summary: Add classLoader to java/lang/Class instance for fast access
Reviewed-by: alanb, lfoltan, rriggs, vlivanov, twisti, jfranck

Summary: Cleaned up CDS to be more configurable, maintainable and extensible
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn, mchung

Summary: Add C2 SHA intrinsics on SPARC
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: james.cheng@oracle.com

Summary: Fix the arbitrary alignment issue in SPARC AES crypto stub routines.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@oracle.com

Summary: Add intrinsics/stub routines support for single-block and multi-block (as used by Cipher Block Chaining mode) AES encryption and decryption operations on the SPARC platform.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Catch missing-because-illegal case for itable entries and use an exception-throwing method instead of null.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jrose, coleenp

Summary: MagicLambdaImpl was removed from jdk side, this should be done in vm side too
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, rdurbin

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: rbackman, twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com, vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

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

Summary: this fix also removes the -XX:+UseStringCache option
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, iklam

Summary: add intrinsics using new instruction to interpreter, C1, C2, for suitable x86; add test
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Inject protection_domain, signers, init_lock into java_lang_Class
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, sla

Summary: Resurrected autobox elimination code and enabled part of it by default.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Reviewed-by: acorn, sla

Reviewed-by: acorn, hawtin

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Removed depreciated kernel VM source code from hotspot VM
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: Use SSE4.2 and AVX2 instructions for encodeArray intrinsic.
Reviewed-by: roland

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: HotSpot changes to support @Contended annotation.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, jrose
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: Add hotspot support for parameter reflection
Reviewed-by: acorn, jrose, coleenp
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

Summary: Fix java names for getAndSet intrinsics
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: joel.franck@oracle.com

Summary: Add three memory-ordering intrinsics to the sun.misc.Unsafe class.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, kmo

Summary: Use new x86 AES instructions for AESCrypt.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, roland
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: restore java/lang/ClassLoader.addClass() upcall
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, 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>

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>

Summary: Add annotation extraction code to class file parser.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, kvn
Contributed-by: michael.haupt@oracle.com

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

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

Summary: Allow a version of String class that doesn't have count and offset fields.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp