Summary: check the state of caller and callee nmethods and skip call site patching if any of them is not alive
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Summary: Fixed proper sweeping of small code cache sizes
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Ensure ensure correct initialization of compiler runtime
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: New default methods list with inherited superinterface methods
Reviewed-by: minqi, sspitsyn, coleenp

Summary: Code cache sweeping based on method hotness; removed speculatively disconnect
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Enable CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS in fastdebug builds across all supported platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, dholmes, stefank, twisti, ihse, rdurbin
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Allocation in the code cache returns NULL instead of failing the entire VM
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

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

Summary: declare all user-defined operator new()s within Hotspot code with the empty throw() exception specification
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, dholmes, hseigel, dcubed, kvn, ccheung
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Method pointer for zombie methods may be invalid
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Add a list of nmethods to the RSet for a region that contain references into the region. Skip scanning the code cache during root scanning and scan the nmethod lists during RSet scanning instead.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso, mgerdin, twisti, kvn

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

Summary: remove unused breakpoint relocation type
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: jeremymanson@google.com, calvin.cheung@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>

Summary: Added command line parameter to define a threshold at which C1 compilation threshold for  is increased.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Walk the compiledIC relocation records to keep Method* from being deallocated.
Reviewed-by: dlong, kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu, hseigel

Summary: Keep sweeping regardless of if we are flushing
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: refactored code to allow platform-specific differences
Reviewed-by: dlong, twisti
Contributed-by: NGoetz Lindenmaier <goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com>

Summary: nmethod::preserve_callee_argument_oops() must take appendix into account.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Remove continous free block requirement
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to nmethod constructor and checks to ensure CodeCache has space before allocation
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to set_to_interpreted()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: support for strings that have same life-time as code that uses them.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: ASSERT and other symbols used incorrectly with #if are supposed to be defined or not.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael

Summary: Adding more detailed output on CodeCache usage
Reviewed-by: kvn, vladidan
Contributed-by: NAlexander Harlap <alexander.harlap@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: When java process crashed in compiler thread, repeat the compilation process will help finding root cause. This is done with using SA dump application class data and replay data from core dump, then use debug version of jvm to recompile the problematic java method.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@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: Add generic type analysis and default method selection algorithms
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Move decoding into Dependencies::DepStream::argument, so no caller could see encoded context value (NULL) anymore.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Removed the unused keep_alive parameter
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, kamg, coleenp

Summary: There was a rogue os::breakpoint() call in log_dependency left over from the jsr292 merge.  Also changed verify_oop() calls for metadata to verify_{method,klass}_ptr.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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>