Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Change the flags and variables related to tenuring threshold to be unsigned
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr

Summary: restore java/lang/ClassLoader.addClass() upcall
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, jmasa

Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc, ysr
Contributed-by: NHal Mo <kungu.mjh@taobao.com>

Summary: Fix the iteration over the system classes and report the correct reference kind.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rbackman

7196103: NPG: Unable to allocate bit map for parallel garbage collection for the requested heap size
Summary: Don't allocate huge class metaspace size by default on x64
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, kvn

Summary: Simple renaming to be consistent with instanceKlass->InstanceKlass renaming
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

Reviewed-by: jcoomes, brutisso

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

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jcoomes

Summary: If the commit fails, the size isn't set so the assert fails.
Reviewed-by: kamg

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>

Summary: Employ PLABStats instances to record information about survivor and old PLABs, and use the recorded stats to adjust the sizes of survivor and old PLABS.
Reviewed-by: johnc, ysr
Contributed-by: NBrandon Mitchell <brandon@twitter.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

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: Use an alternate version of hashing algorithm for symbol string tables and after a certain bucket size to improve performance
Reviewed-by: pbk, kamg, dlong, kvn, fparain

Summary: Add "using" keyword to import base class functions from FreeList<T> to fix template name lookup in gcc 4.7
Reviewed-by: brutisso, iveresov

Summary: Simplify code, remove unused code, remove ExitAfterGCNum
Reviewed-by: huntch, johnc

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, johnc

Summary: Allow a version of String class that doesn't have count and offset fields.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp

Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

Summary: Change the _host_klass to be conditionally created embedded instanceKlass field.
Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Fix naming style to be consistent with the predominant hotspot style.
Reviewed-by: ysr, brutisso

Summary: removed oop_verify_old_oop and allow_dirty. Also reviewed by: alexlamsl@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: jmasa, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Summary: Make the FreeChunk, FreeList, TreeList, and BinaryTreeDictionary classes usable outside CMS.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, johnc, jwilhelm
Contributed-by: coleen.phillimore@oracle.com

Summary: Move symbol allocation to an arena so NMT doesn't have to track them at startup.
Reviewed-by: never, kamg, zgu

Summary: Check clean words instead of clean bytes
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, jmasa, jwilhelm, ysr
Contributed-by: alexey.ragozin@gmail.com

7109878: The instanceKlass EnclosingMethhod attribute fields can be folded into the _inner_class field.
Summary: Fold instanceKlass::_enclosing_method_class_index and instanceKlass::_enclosing_method_method_index into the instanceKlass::_inner_classes array.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

7154670: The instanceKlass _implementors[] and _nof_implementors are not needed for non-interface klass.
Summary: Change implementor to embedded instanceKlass field.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, minqi, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: resize covered region only after successfully mapping shared archive
Reviewed-by: brutisso, ysr
Contributed-by: dean.long@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, kevinw, brutisso, twisti, jmasa

Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, dholmes