Reviewed-by: coleenp, never, gbenson

Summary: There are unimplemented portions of the hotspot code for method handles and invokedynamic specific to SPARC.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Reviewed-by: twisti, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Some code cleanups found during the JSR 292 SPARC port.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Adding probes related to thread scheduling and class initialization
Reviewed-by: kamg, never

Summary: Passing a null pointer to an InvokeDynamic function call should lead to a NullPointerException.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Move creating stack guard pages in jni attach thread before potential java call rather than after. Also cleanup stack guard pages when jni attach fails
Reviewed-by: never, dholmes

Summary: Mark in PcDesc call sites which return oop and save the result oop across objects reallocation during deoptimization.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Rename can_post_exceptions support to can_post_on_exceptions. Add support for should_post_on_exceptions flag to permit per JavaThread optimizations.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, dcubed
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

6580131: 3/4 CompiledMethodLoad events don't produce the expected extra notifications to describe inlining
Summary: Add support for additional implementation specific info to the JVM/TI CompiledMethodLoad event via the compile_info parameter.
Reviewed-by: never, ohair, tbell, tdeneau
Contributed-by: NVasanth Venkatachalam <vasanth.venkatachalam@amd.com>

Summary: Put generated MH adapter in InvokeDynamic/MethodHandle classes to be able to indentify them easily in the compiler.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, 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

6637203: Classunloading messages go to stdout rather than Xloggc file, causing hangs when stdout is closed
Summary: Decoupled TraceClassUnloading from verbose:gc, JVMTI_VERBOSE_GC and PrintGC[Details], making it settable in a manner identical to TraceClassLoading. Reverted an inadvertent change of TraceClassUnloading output in a previous changeset from gclog back to tty.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, jmasa, poonam

Summary: We need a way to walk chained method handles in the JVM to call the right methods and to generate required bytecode adapters for the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Zero currently won't build on zSeries or PowerPC machines with assertions turned on.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

6895168: JCK api/signaturetest/sigtest.basic.html#basic test fails for jdk 5.0 with HS 16 in nightly build
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, jrose

Summary: If a JVMTI agent asks for version 1.0, then it should get version 1.0 semantics.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohair

Summary: Return error on invalid JVMTI_PHASE instead of asserting.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohair

Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

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: Fix the shadowing and incorrect macro usages
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: correctly raise exceptions, support safe bitwise "raw" conversions, fix bugs revealed by VerifyMethodHandles, remove dead code, improve debugging support
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009 through Septermber
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Summary: Make a special root-list for those few nmethods which might contain non-perm oops.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, jmasa, ysr

Reviewed-by: kamg, phh

Summary: use PcDesc to keep record of the reexecute bit instead of using DebugInfoStreams
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti

Summary: Refactor JNIHandles::checked_resolve_jmethod_id() into fast and paranoid parts.
Reviewed-by: never, alanb

Summary: Correctly count full GC operations for framework collectors. Add ForceFullGCJVMTIEpilogues as a future work around if needed.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, alanb, ysr

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Summary: JVM_FindClassFromBootLoader returns null if class not found
Reviewed-by: acorn, alanb, dholmes

Summary: Modifications to G1 so as to allow the use of compressed oops.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, coleenp, jmasa, kvn, never, phh, tonyp

Summary: Add new jvmstat counters to measure detailed class loading time
Reviewed-by: acorn, kamg

Summary: Disable escape analysis when jvmti/debugger is used. Add support for EA ibto SA.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: initial implementation, with known omissions (x86/64, sparc, compiler optim., c-oops, C++ interp.)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, never

Reviewed-by: xlu, mchung

Summary: preparatory but separable changes for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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