Summary: move functions from hpi library to hotspot, communicate with licensees and open source community, check jdk for dependency, file CCC request
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, dsamersoff

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Summary: Allow CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic nodes to have any number of extra operands.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: The logic of ClassFileParser::java_dyn_MethodHandle_fix_pre needs to take care of an already changed vmentry signature.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Update verifier to conform to spec re: reference vs. 'Object' types
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

6891959: HotSpot should not throw ClassFormatError if a class has a field with '>' and/or '<' in its name
Summary: Class file parser needs to look for and disallow '[' in names.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never

Summary: Repair stackmap table attribute when relocating bytecode
Reviewed-by: acorn, never

Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Naked oop in verificationType::is_reference_assignable_from()
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

Summary: Must check locals for null when processing chop frame
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

Summary: Added more checks into ResourceObj and growableArray to verify correctness of allocation type.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Check if klassOop != NULL rather than klass_part != NULL
Reviewed-by: kamg, never

Summary: Add JVM_CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic records to constant pool to determine per-instruction BSMs.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add new CP types CONSTANT_MethodHandle, CONSTANT_MethodType; extend 'ldc' bytecode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

6930553: classfile format checker allows invalid method descriptor in CONSTANT_NameAndType_info in some cases
Summary: Check NameAndType_info signatures aggressively, even when unreferenced
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, never

Summary: Fix errors in 6939207.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Factored cleanup of instruction decode which prepares for enhanced ldc semantics.
Reviewed-by: twisti

6693236: A class file whose version number is greater than to 50.0 must be verified using the typechecker
Summary: Disable failover verification for classfiles >= v51
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, dholmes

Summary: Adjust MethodType lookup logic to search off the BCP, but not to cache those results
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: split MethodHandle.invoke into invokeExact and invokeGeneric; also clean up JVM-to-Java interfaces
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: never, twisti
Contributed-by: NHiroshi Yamauchi <yamauchi@google.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, apetrusenko, never, dcubed

Summary: Use FieldsAllocationStyle=2 to allocate non static oop fields in super and sub classes together
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: the guarantee is too strict and the test will fail (incorrectly) if the class is not in the system dictionary but in the placeholders.
Reviewed-by: acorn, phh

Summary: Fixed missing pre-barrier calls for G1, modified C1 to call pre- and correct post-barrier interfaces, deleted obsolete interface, (temporarily) disabled redundant deferred barrier in BacktraceBuilder.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, kvn, never

Summary: Add safepoint after CompileTheWorldSafepointInterval (100) compilations and do full sweep of CodeCache each time.
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: eric.caspole@amd.com

Summary: Loader constraints track array elements, not arrays themselves.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kevinw

Summary: Put generated MH adapter in InvokeDynamic/MethodHandle classes to be able to indentify them easily in the compiler.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: C2 needs some additional optimizations to be able to handle MethodHandle invokes and invokedynamic instructions at the best performance.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: During the work for 6829187 we have fixed a number of basic bugs which are logically grouped with 6815692 and 6858164 but which must be reviewed and pushed separately.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: We need a way to walk chained method handles in the JVM to call the right methods and to generate required bytecode adapters for the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn

6899467: System property java.class.version out-of-sync with VM for jdk 5.0 with HS 16 in nightly build
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, dholmes, ysr

Summary: changes for method handles and invokedynamic
Reviewed-by: kvn