Summary: Create AME overpass methods and fix method search logic
Reviewed-by: kamg, acorn, lfoltan, coleenp

Summary: Reducing the number of calls to follow_class_loader to speed up the marking phase. Also removed some unnecessary calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: hseigel, lfoltan, coleenp

Summary: Add verification to check that invokespecial of an InterfaceMethodref names a method in a direct superinterface of the current class or interface in accordance with JSR 335, JVMS 4.9.2 Structural Constraints.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel, coleenp
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Reduced the number of calls to follow_class_loader and instead marked and pushed the klass holder directly. Also removed unneeded calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, mgerdin, tschatzl

Summary: null classes should be expected in profiles with conflicts
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Rewrite of the getLoadedClasses() method implementation to include anonymous classes.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Revert changes in JDK-8008962
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Check if data is in shared spaces before deallocating it.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: Missed initialization. Thanks Coleen.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, minqi

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

Summary: Remove unnecessary volatile keyword on stack locals within instanceKlass.cpp to work around Solaris Studio C++ compiler issue
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, bharadwaj, minqi

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: Need to refetch each method from InstanceKlass after all safepoints.  Removed leaky PreviousVersionInfo code.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, sspitsyn

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

8021948: Change InstanceKlass::_source_file_name and _generic_signature from Symbol* to constant pool indexes.
Summary: Change InstanceKlass::_source_file_name and _generic_signature to u2 fields.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam

Summary: Use JvmtiCachedClassFileData.
Reviewed-by: iklam, sspitsyn, dcubed

Summary: Remove -Xaprof and Klass::_alloc_count & ArrayKlass::_alloc_size.
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

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

Summary: The "delete mnt" needs to grab MemberNameTable_lock if !SafepointSynchronize::is_at_safepoint()
Reviewed-by: sla, mgerdin, dholmes, jmasa
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: The fix of perf regression is to use method_idnum() for direct indexing into NMT
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, coleenp, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Inject protection_domain, signers, init_lock into java_lang_Class
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, sla

Summary: With NPG, const KlassOop klass which is in fact a definition converted to Klass* const, which is not the original intention. The right usage is converting them to const Klass*.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

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

Summary: Call this function from the ClassLoaderData destructor instead of the system dictionary walk.
Reviewed-by: stefank, mgerdin

Summary: Lazily create and maintain the MemberNameTable to be able to update MemberName's
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: Add DumpSharedSpaces to IF condition to handle verify during -Xshare:dump.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu

Summary: when possible optimize out array bound checks, inserting predicates when needed.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: Nthomaswue <thomas.wuerthinger@oracle.com>

Summary: Store metadata on ClassFileParser instance to be cleaned up by destructor.  This enabled some refactoring of the enormous parseClassFile function.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, acorn

Summary: Zero metadata in constructors, not in allocation (and some in constructors)
Reviewed-by: jmasa, sspitsyn

Summary: fix null pointer
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: allocate method annotations and attach to ConstMethod if present
Reviewed-by: dcubed, jiangli, sspitsyn, iklam

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

Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Count number of instance classes so that it matches class metadata size
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

8005494: SIGSEGV in Rewriter::relocate_and_link() when testing Weblogic with CompressedOops and KlassPtrs
Summary: Relocate functions with jsr's when rewriting so not repeated after reading shared archive
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp