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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, kevinw, brutisso, twisti, jmasa

Summary: Add CriticalPriority == MaxPriority+1 and enable scheduling class as well as thread priority to change on Solaris.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

Summary: Make sure that CompilationPolicy::event() doesn't throw exceptions
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Fixed several EA issues with Connection Graph construction.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Use dead nodes elimination code in PhaseIdealLoop before executing EA.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Avoid CMove in a loop if possible. May generate CMove if it could be moved outside a loop.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Integrate bsd-port/hotspot and macosx-port/hotspot changes as of 2011.09.29.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, never, phh
Contributed-by: NChristos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Kurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Alexander Strange &lt;astrange@apple.com&gt;, Mike Swingler &lt;swingler@apple.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Victor Hernandez &lt;vhernandez@apple.com&gt;, Pratik Solanki <psolanki@apple.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Avoid blocking in CompileBroker::compile_method_base() if the current thread holds the pending list lock.
Reviewed-by: never, brutisso, ysr

Summary: Eliminate the race condition.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use largest_free_block() instead of unallocated_capacity().
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never, ysr

Reviewed-by: kvn, chrisphi, twisti

Summary: The reference handler java thread and the GC could dead lock
Reviewed-by: never, johnc, jcoomes

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

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

Summary: 6970683 and 6953144 introduced changes that need to be implemented for Zero and Shark.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Fix policy reaction to C1 comilation failures, make C1 properly report errors.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Shark is a JIT compiler for Zero that uses the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, ysr

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

Reviewed-by: never, kvn
Contributed-by: eric.caspole@amd.com

Summary: Get java.io.tmpdir property in os::get_temp_directory() and call this instead of harcoding "/tmp".  Don't assume trailing file_separator either.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kamg

Summary: Add missing guard.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Print "made not compilable" line  only for deoptimizations.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Speculatively unload the oldest nmethods when code cache gets full.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn
Contributed-by: eric.caspole@amd.com

Summary: Smaller fixes to ensure that Zero still works with non-standard options.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

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

6788527: Server vm intermittently fails with assertion "live value must not be garbage" with fastdebug bits
Summary: Cache Jvmti and DTrace flags used by Compiler.
Reviewed-by: never