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>

7151532: DCmd for hotspot native memory tracking
Summary: Implementation of native memory tracking phase 1, which tracks VM native memory usage, and related DCmd
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, fparain

Summary: Change constMethodOop::_exception_table to optionally inlined u2 table.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, coleenp, kamg

7168280: Eliminate the generic signature index slot from field array for field without generic signature.
Summary: Only allocate the generic signature index slot in the field array for field with generic signature attribute.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dlong

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

Summary: 7u4 new experimental flag -XX:PredictedClassLoadedCount=#
Reviewed-by: dholmes, phh, dcubed

Summary: Added a nop tracing infrastructure, JFR makefile changes and other infrastructure used only by JFR.
Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: markus.gronlund@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

Summary: Make CDS reorder vtables so that dump time vtables match run time order, so when redefine classes reinitializes them, they aren't in the wrong order.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn

Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: After appropriate testing, we need to turn on EnableMethodHandles and EnableInvokeDynamic by default.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, jrose, phh

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

Summary: consolidate runtime support in java.dyn.MethodHandleNatives; include transitional compatibility logic
Reviewed-by: twisti

6354181: nsk.logging.stress.threads.scmhml001 fails assertion in "src/share/vm/oops/instanceKlass.cpp, 111"
Reviewed-by: jrose, acorn

Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

Summary: Because of the removal of language support, the JDK 7 API for JSR 292 no longer includes a public class named java/dyn/InvokeDynamic.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

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

Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: never

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

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

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

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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

Reviewed-by: kamg, xlu

Summary: Fix several crashers, remove needless paths for boxed-style bootstrap method call, refactor & simplify APIs for rewriter constantPoolOop, remove sun.dyn.CallSiteImpl
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: correctly raise exceptions, support safe bitwise "raw" conversions, fix bugs revealed by VerifyMethodHandles, remove dead code, improve debugging support
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Make a special root-list for those few nmethods which might contain non-perm oops.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, jmasa, ysr

Reviewed-by: kamg, phh

Summary: Add new jvmstat counters to measure detailed class loading time
Reviewed-by: acorn, kamg

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never