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: Increase vector size up to 256-bits for YMM AVX registers on x86.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, roland

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

Summary: adds store store barrier after initialization of header and body of objects.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: allow reg_class definition as a function.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: ADLC generates code to prepare the register string to be printed in a char array but then calls print without the char array as an argument.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

Summary: abstracted way to declare that the MachNode has the effect of a call (kills caller save registers, preserves callee save registers)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

Summary: on T4 2 BIS instructions should be issued to prefetch 64 bytes
Reviewed-by: iveresov, phh, twisti

Summary: save/restore label and block in scratch_emit_size()
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Use new short branch instruction in C2 generated code.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: replace MemBarAcquire/MemBarRelease nodes on the monitor enter/exit code paths with new MemBarAcquireLock/MemBarReleaseLock nodes
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Remove flags which duplicate information in Node::NodeClasses.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

7010070: Update all 2010 Oracle-changed OpenJDK files to have the proper copyright dates - second pass
Summary: Update the copyright to be 2010 on all changed files in OpenJDK
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Enables cross building of a c2 VM. Support masking of shift counts when the processor architecture mandates it.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Updated create.bat and ProjectCreator
Reviewed-by: brutisso, stefank, ohair

Summary: Add TEMP edges (and KILL projections) before duplicated operands are removed in Expand() methods.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: oops should be loaded from the constant table of an nmethod instead of materializing them with a long code sequence.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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

Summary: This is the renaming part of 6961697 to keep the actual changes small for review.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: pbk, kvn

6875866: Intrinsic for String.indexOf() is broken on x86 with SSE4.2
Summary: Modify String intrinsic methods to pass char[] pointers instead of string oops.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Store the return value of fwrite and check it matches the size of the array.
Reviewed-by: twisti, dholmes

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: 6797305 handles load widening but no shortening which should be covered here.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Use SSE 4.2 in intrinsics for String.{compareTo/equals/indexOf} and Arrays.equals.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Summary: Allow Hotspot builds with latest Windows SDK 6.1 on 64bit Windows 2003
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell, jcoomes

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 03/09
Reviewed-by: katleman, tbell, ohair