Summary: Remove -Xaprof and Klass::_alloc_count & ArrayKlass::_alloc_size.
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

8015391: NPG: With -XX:+UseCompressedKlassPointers OOME due to exhausted metadata space could occur when metaspace is almost empty
Summary: Allocate medium chunks for class metaspace when class loader has lots of classes
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jmasa

Summary: Added Atomic::inc(short*) to support this change.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed, dholmes, minqi

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>

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

Summary: The fix of 8010992, disable use of global operator new and new[] which caused failure on some tests. This takes two of the bugs also add ALLOW_OPERATOR_NEW_USAGE to prevent crash for third party code calling operator new of jvm on certain platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Summary: anti-delta fix for 8010992 until 8012902 can be fixed
Reviewed-by: acorn, minqi, rdurbin

Summary: disable use of global operator new and new[] which could cause unexpected exception and escape from NMT tracking.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

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

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael

Summary: allocate method annotations and attach to ConstMethod if present
Reviewed-by: dcubed, jiangli, sspitsyn, iklam

Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Summary: When calculating live object regions, make sure that the alignment reserve, at the end of a TLAB, is excluded.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso

Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Added assertion to catch problem earlier and removed the unused field
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael, rasbold
Contributed-by: NJeremy Manson <jeremymanson@google.com>

Summary: Instead of passing in last_entry to all the VM_ macros just expand it in the main vmStructs.cpp file.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, minqi

Reviewed-by: johnc

Summary: Move _max_locals and _size_of_parameters to ConstMethod for better sharing.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, minqi, jrose

8003848: Make ConstMethod::generic_signature_index optional and move Method::_max_stack to ConstMethod.
Summary: Make ConstMethod::generic_signature_index optional and move Method::_max_stack to ConstMethod.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, sspitsyn, coleenp

Summary: Removed duplicate entries
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp

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

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Change the flags and variables related to tenuring threshold to be unsigned
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

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

Summary: Added missed _bottom_type set in ArchDesc::defineExpand() and missed vector nodes in MatchRule::is_vector().
Reviewed-by: twisti, roland, dlong

Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank, jprovino, ohair

Summary: Simple renaming to be consistent with instanceKlass->InstanceKlass renaming
Reviewed-by: stefank, 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>