Summary: Neglected to copy the annotations in clone_with_new_data when they were moved to ConstMethod.
Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Check for exception during SystemDictionary::resolve_instance_class_or_null() and clean up.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, hseigel, minqi
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Summary: Some zeroing was missed for bug 8003553, causing empty stack traces and Xcom crashes, add back zeroing to metablock
Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman

Summary: Zero metadata in constructors, not in allocation (and some in constructors)
Reviewed-by: jmasa, sspitsyn

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

Summary: Add/refine new tracing support using -XX:TraceRedefineClasses=16384.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov
Contributed-by: NIgor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>

Summary: jcmd <pid> GC.class_stats (UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions)
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, sla, acorn
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Summary: Added on_stack bit to flags.  Also MetadataMarkOnStack is used for more than JVMTI so had to be moved.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, stefank

Summary: Add hotspot support for parameter reflection
Reviewed-by: acorn, jrose, coleenp
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

Summary: Use methodHandle.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, twisti, sspitsyn

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

Summary: Make metaspace::contains be lock free and used to see if something is in metaspace, also compare Method* with vtbl pointer.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, dcubed, jmasa

8003848: Make ConstMethod::generic_signature_index optional and move Method::_max_stack to ConstMethod.
Summary: Make ConstMethod::generic_signature_index optional and move Method::_max_stack to ConstMethod.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, sspitsyn, coleenp

Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Change types of above methods and field to InstanceKlass and remove unneeded casts from the source files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Use new x86 AES instructions for AESCrypt.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, roland
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

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

Summary: add LogCompilation support in C1 - both client and tiered mode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

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

Summary: Simple renaming to be consistent with instanceKlass->InstanceKlass renaming
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

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>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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: Need to copy the inlined exception table to the new constMethodOop during method rewriting.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Eliminate constMethod's _method backpointer to methodOop, and move the _constant field from methodOop to constMethod.
Reviewed-by: roland, bdelsart, kamg

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fixed warnings which prevent building VM with old compilers.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Also reviewed by mikael.gerdin@oracle.com; stdlib:qsort() does byte-by-byte swapping on Windows. This leads to pointer shearing. Fix is to implement a quicksort that does full pointer updates.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp, ysr

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Removed extra change from another bug fix that caused this regression
Reviewed-by: phh, dcubed, kvn, kamg, never

Summary: Unrewrite bytecodes for OOM error allocating the constant pool cache.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn, never

Summary: Make MH verification tests more correct, robust, and informative.  Fix lingering symbol refcount problems.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti

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