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, jrose, kevinw, brutisso, twisti, jmasa

Summary: Nested locks elimination done before lock nodes expansion by looking for outer locks of the same object.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Summary: changes necessary for some JSR292 ports
Reviewed-by: jrose, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Fix integer overflow problem in the code generated by loop optimizer.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: removed an ifdef IA32 around harmless code useful for some ports
Reviewed-by: chrisphi, never

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

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

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, kvn, dcubed

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

6986270: guarantee(*bcp != Bytecodes::_monitorenter || exec_mode != Deoptimization::Unpack_exception) fails
Summary: Propagate the compiler type of the deopting method to vframeArrayElement::unpack_on_stack()
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

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

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

Summary: Fix assert since top deoptimized frame has last_sp == interpreter_frame_monitor_begin if there are no expressions.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Mark in PcDesc call sites which return oop and save the result oop across objects reallocation during deoptimization.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Fix incorrect marking of methods as not compilable.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: We need to introduce a new MH deopt handler so we can easily determine if the deopt happened at a MH call site or not.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Reviewed-by: mr

Summary: We need to introduce a new MH deopt handler so we can easily determine if the deopt happened at a MH call site or not.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Loop predication implementation
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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

Summary: Disable escape analysis when jvmti/debugger is used. Add support for EA ibto SA.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: Relocking of a thread-local object during deoptimization is broken
Reviewed-by: kbr, jrose, never

Summary: Deoptimization code for reallocation and relocking scalar replaced objects has to be fixed.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never