8021948: Change InstanceKlass::_source_file_name and _generic_signature from Symbol* to constant pool indexes.
Summary: Change InstanceKlass::_source_file_name and _generic_signature to u2 fields.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam

Summary: USe err_msg() to create a proper assertion message.
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp, iklam

Reviewed-by: kvn, kmo, shade

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Store metadata on ClassFileParser instance to be cleaned up by destructor.  This enabled some refactoring of the enormous parseClassFile function.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, acorn

Summary: allocate method annotations and attach to ConstMethod if present
Reviewed-by: dcubed, jiangli, sspitsyn, iklam

Summary: HotSpot changes to support @Contended annotation.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, jrose
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: joel.franck@oracle.com

Summary: Add ClassLoaderData object for each anonymous class with metaspaces to allocate in.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, stefank

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Add generic type analysis and default method selection algorithms
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

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: Add annotation extraction code to class file parser.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, kvn
Contributed-by: michael.haupt@oracle.com

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

Summary: Move symbol allocation to an arena so NMT doesn't have to track them at startup.
Reviewed-by: never, kamg, zgu

7109878: The instanceKlass EnclosingMethhod attribute fields can be folded into the _inner_class field.
Summary: Fold instanceKlass::_enclosing_method_class_index and instanceKlass::_enclosing_method_method_index into the instanceKlass::_inner_classes array.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

7123315: instanceKlass::_static_oop_field_count and instanceKlass::_java_fields_count should be u2 type.
Summary: Change instanceKlass::_static_oop_field_count and instanceKlass::_java_fields_count to u2 type.
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart, dholmes
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

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

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

Reviewed-by: twisti

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

Summary: The logic of ClassFileParser::java_dyn_MethodHandle_fix_pre needs to take care of an already changed vmentry signature.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

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

6930553: classfile format checker allows invalid method descriptor in CONSTANT_NameAndType_info in some cases
Summary: Check NameAndType_info signatures aggressively, even when unreferenced
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, never

Reviewed-by: kamg, phh

Reviewed-by: jmasa, iveresov

Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

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

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

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified starting July 2008 to Dec 2008
Reviewed-by: katleman, ohair, tbell

Summary: low-level privileged sun.misc.Unsafe.defineAnonymousClass
Reviewed-by: kvn