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>

Summary: improvements of TraceMethodHandles for JSR292
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: improvements of frame_describe
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart, kvn, twisti

Summary: Moved sizeof(klassOopDesc), changed the return type to ByteSize and removed the _in_bytes suffix.
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart, coleenp, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: twisti, roland, kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Add new short branch instruction to Hotspot sparc assembler.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jrose

Summary: check for single stepping when dispatching invokes from method handles
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, kvn, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, never

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: package and class renaming only; delete unused methods and classes
Reviewed-by: twisti

7012914: JSR 292 MethodHandlesTest C1: frame::verify_return_pc(return_address) failed: must be a return pc
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: The test of 6991596 fails on SPARCV9.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, never

Summary: SPARC code missing from fix to 6939224
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

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

Summary: C1 for SPARC needs to support JSR 292.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

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

Reviewed-by: coleenp, never, gbenson

Summary: There are unimplemented portions of the hotspot code for method handles and invokedynamic specific to SPARC.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Summary: initial implementation, with known omissions (x86/64, sparc, compiler optim., c-oops, C++ interp.)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, never