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

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>

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

Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: After appropriate testing, we need to turn on EnableMethodHandles and EnableInvokeDynamic by default.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, jrose, phh

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

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

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

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: 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: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

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

Summary: The CMS concurrent precleaning and concurrent marking phases should work around classes that are undergoing redefinition.
Reviewed-by: ysr, dcubed

Summary: low-level privileged sun.misc.Unsafe.defineAnonymousClass
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold