Summary: Recognize VM generated method in old verifier
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavelli@oracle.com

Summary: Removed depreciated kernel VM source code from hotspot VM
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: Remove Method* from backtrace but save version so redefine classes doesn't give inaccurate line numbers.  Removed old Merlin API with duplicate code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

Summary: Also reviewed by: vitalyd@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: This patch addresses an alignment trap due to the storage format of method parameters data in constMethod.  It also adds code to validate constant pool indexes for method parameters data.
Reviewed-by: jrose, dholmes
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

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

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

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: 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>

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: change hotspot flag to be unsigned
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla, fparain, brutisso
Contributed-by: NChris Dennis <cdennis@terracottatech.com>

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

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>

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

Summary: Revamp class os's socket method formal args to match socket.h, insert casts in appropriate places, and copyin-copyout int*'s that s/b socklen_t*'s in jvm.cpp.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes
Contributed-by: erik.gahlin@oracle.com, rickard.backman@oracle.com, nils.loodin@oracle.com, markus.gronlund@oracle.com

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, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, stefank, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

Summary: Add option for gcc 4 and above, define JNIEXPORT and JNIIMPORT to visibility=default, add for jio_snprintf and others since -fvisibility=hidden overrides --version-script definitions.
Reviewed-by: kamg, never

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

Summary: Restore use of stillborn flag
Reviewed-by: acorn, alanb

Summary: move functions from hpi library to hotspot, communicate with licensees and open source community, check jdk for dependency, file CCC request
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, dsamersoff

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

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

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

6895168: JCK api/signaturetest/sigtest.basic.html#basic test fails for jdk 5.0 with HS 16 in nightly build
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, jrose

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

Reviewed-by: kamg, phh

Summary: JVM_FindClassFromBootLoader returns null if class not found
Reviewed-by: acorn, alanb, dholmes

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

Reviewed-by: xlu, mchung

Summary: preparatory but separable changes for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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

Summary: Fixed the wrong cast between types since more restrictions are imposed by gcc 4.3.2
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, acorn, phh, never