8025088: Missing cases for JVM_CONSTANT_MethodHandleInError cause crash if debugger steps into error-tagged method handle
Summary: Need to refetch each method from InstanceKlass after all safepoints.  Removed leaky PreviousVersionInfo code.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: reference_map[] array had uninitialized junk that was causing a bogus bootstrap method to be found.
Reviewed-by: hseigel, dcubed, sspitsyn

Summary: Enhance method resolution and resulting data structures, plus some refactoring.
Reviewed-by: twisti, acorn, jrose

Summary: Minimize redundant verifications of Klasses.
Reviewed-by: hseigel, jmasa

Summary: Added dumping of object sizes in CDS archive, sorted by MetaspaceObj::Type
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dholmes, dcubed

Summary: Re-use InstanceKlass::_init_lock locking ConstantPool as well.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn

Summary: References from operands to CP entries and back must be correct after CP merge
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Add the -Wunused-function flag and remove a number of unused functions.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, kvn

Summary: added guarantee() to print_entry_on()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Zero Symbol* for constant pool strings to indicate pseudo_strings (objects that aren't strings).  Clean up JVM_CONSTANT_Object and unused flags.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, jrose

Summary: Simple typos that need to be fixed
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

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

Summary: When constant pool is copied in merge_constant_pools the invokedynamic operands must be copied before.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@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: 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: Add ClassLoaderData object for each anonymous class with metaspaces to allocate in.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, stefank

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

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

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

7195867: NPG: SAJDI tests fail with sun.jvm.hotspot.types.WrongTypeException: No suitable match for type
Summary: Need to restore the vtable in metadata when we restore the type from the shared archive.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jcoomes, jmasa, jrose

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: Changed "return false" to "return NULL"
Reviewed-by: dholmes, rottenha
Contributed-by: dbhole@redhat.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: never

Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

Summary: Redefine classes copies the constant pool while the constant pool may be resolving strings or classes
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dsamersoff, acorn

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: Distinguish pool indexes from cache indexes in recently changed code.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add JVM_CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic records to constant pool to determine per-instruction BSMs.
Reviewed-by: twisti

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

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