Summary: GC workers now recognize an intermediate transient state of blocks which are allocated but have not yet completed initialization. blk_start() calls do not attempt to determine the size of a block in the transient state, rather waiting for the block to become initialized so that it is safe to query its size. Audited and ensured the order of initialization of object fields (klass, free bit and size) to respect block state transition protocol. Also included some new assertion checking code enabled in debug mode.
Reviewed-by: chrisphi, johnc, poonam

Summary: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Use GrowableArray and VectorSet allocated in ciEnv arena.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add new CP types CONSTANT_MethodHandle, CONSTANT_MethodType; extend 'ldc' bytecode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: Add a stress-test flag for running MethodComparator over many inputs.  Fix bugs that crop up.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Factored cleanup of instruction decode which prepares for enhanced ldc semantics.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: split MethodHandle.invoke into invokeExact and invokeGeneric; also clean up JVM-to-Java interfaces
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Adding probes related to thread scheduling and class initialization
Reviewed-by: kamg, never

Summary: Passing a null pointer to an InvokeDynamic function call should lead to a NullPointerException.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: This implements JSR 292 support for C1 x86.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose, kvn

Summary: Use an explicit stack for object arrays and process them in chunks.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, apetrusenko

Summary: Rename marking stack sizing flags to be common between G1 and CMS
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: Add missing handles.inline.hpp for codeCache.cpp.
Reviewed-by: never

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

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: Interval checking is now being performed on the values passed in for these two flags. The current acceptable range for RefDiscoveryPolicy is [0..1], and for TLABWasteTargetPercent it is [1..100].
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, ysr

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

6580131: 3/4 CompiledMethodLoad events don't produce the expected extra notifications to describe inlining
Summary: Add support for additional implementation specific info to the JVM/TI CompiledMethodLoad event via the compile_info parameter.
Reviewed-by: never, ohair, tbell, tdeneau
Contributed-by: NVasanth Venkatachalam <vasanth.venkatachalam@amd.com>

Summary: More informative disassembly in product mode.  Also, a more consistent CompileCommand syntax.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Put generated MH adapter in InvokeDynamic/MethodHandle classes to be able to indentify them easily in the compiler.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Summary: C2 needs some additional optimizations to be able to handle MethodHandle invokes and invokedynamic instructions at the best performance.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: C2 implementation for invokedynamic support.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: We need a way to walk chained method handles in the JVM to call the right methods and to generate required bytecode adapters for the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Introduced a new write_ref_array(HeapWords* start, size_t count) method that does the requisite MemRegion range calculation so (some of the) clients of the erstwhile write_ref_array(MemRegion mr) do not need to worry. This removed all external uses of array_size(), which was also simplified and made private. Asserts were added to catch other possible issues. Further, less essential, fixes stemming from this investigation are deferred to CR 6904516 (to follow shortly in hs17).
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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: Treat ProfileData in MDO's as a source of weak, not strong, roots. Fixes the bug for stop-world collection -- the case of concurrent collection will be fixed separately.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, jmasa, kvn, never

Summary: Modifications to G1 so as to allow the use of compressed oops.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, coleenp, jmasa, kvn, never, phh, tonyp

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

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, phh

Summary: A similar function to getisax(2) should be used to determine all possible instruction set extensions.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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

Summary: Remove incorrect optimization in klassItable::adjust_method_entries(). Add RedefineClasses() tracing support for obsolete method entry.
Reviewed-by: acorn, swamyv

Summary: Some fixes which are required to build on recent GCCs.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn
Contributed-by: langel@redhat.com

Summary: There is very much duplicated code in vm_version_x86_{32,64}.{cpp,hpp}.  Refactoring these would help maintainability.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never