Reviewed-by: dholmes, tbell, erikj, ihse, ohrstrom

Reviewed-by: ohair, dholmes

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, nloodin, mgronlun, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Remove the workaround of 7187454 problem which was restored incorrectly during NPG merge.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

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: johnc

Summary: Added capability to load support classes for other cpus
Reviewed-by: coleenp, bobv, sla
Contributed-by: NBill Pittore <bill.pittore@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Add some quotes around the classpath in the project file rule.
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: add "arm" to the list of processors that need -fPIC
Reviewed-by: vladidan, dholmes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: This fix is the minimum number of Makefile changes to enable building HotSpot with MinGW/MSYS
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, dcubed, tbell, ohair
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Change DEBUG_BINARIES option logic to be more clear.
Reviewed-by: fparain, andrew

Summary: Added new FormatBufferResource class to use thread's resource area for error message buffer.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Lower compiler optimization level when compiling jvmtiClassFileReconstituter.cpp as a workaround for the solaris x86 5.10 cc bug.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

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>

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: libjvm_g_db.so and libjvm_g_dtrace.so links in .diz file still had 64 directory
Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes, sspitsyn

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

Summary: Missing .PHONY targets in makefile
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dsamersoff

Summary: build powerpc with -fPIC
Reviewed-by: mikael, vladidan, roland
Contributed-by: dean.long@oracle.com

7175255: symlinks are wrong, which caused jdk8-promote-2 to fail (client/64/64 directories in debuginfo zips)
Summary: Fix bad paths in client/64 and server/64 debug info and symlink creation
Reviewed-by: ohair, dholmes

Summary: Simple change to enable proper builds of arm target
Reviewed-by: ohair, dholmes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Add -fpch-deps flag to gcc builds
Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Run SPECjbb in headless mode and enable SPECjbb runs on OSX
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Work around 'gobjcopy' failure on Solaris X64 by adding a temporary tool that removes the SHF_ALLOC flag from "empty" section headers.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, acorn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kvn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Always disable ZIP_DEBUGINFO_FILES on Windows.
Reviewed-by: acorn