Summary: Do patching rather bailing out for unlinked call with appendix
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: find_method could return NULL so need explicitly check if there is error after parse_method, exit on error to avoid crash.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: fix bytecode analyzer
Reviewed-by: twisti

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

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

Summary: The fix of 8010992, disable use of global operator new and new[] which caused failure on some tests. This takes two of the bugs also add ALLOW_OPERATOR_NEW_USAGE to prevent crash for third party code calling operator new of jvm on certain platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Resurrected autobox elimination code and enabled part of it by default.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti, roland
Contributed-by: albert.noll@oracle.com

Summary: Allocate the method's profiling related metadata until they are needed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

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

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

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov
Contributed-by: NIgor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov
Contributed-by: NIgor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>

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

Summary: Define jlong as long on all LP64 platforms and add JLONG_FORMAT macro.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, mikael, kvn

8006109: test/java/util/AbstractSequentialList/AddAll.java fails: assert(rtype == ctype) failed: mismatched return types
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: collection of small changes to prepare for incremental inlining.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Add ClassLoaderData object for each anonymous class with metaspaces to allocate in.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, stefank

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Removed will_link and changed all calls to is_loaded().
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: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add LogCompilation support in C1 - both client and tiered mode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Don't clone head of OSR loop.
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

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

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>

7192406: JSR 292: C2 needs exact return type information for invokedynamic and invokehandle call sites
Reviewed-by: kvn

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: Add annotation extraction code to class file parser.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, kvn
Contributed-by: 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

Summary: Change constMethodOop::_exception_table to optionally inlined u2 table.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, coleenp, kamg