4505697: nsk/jdi/ExceptionEvent/_itself_/exevent006 and exevent008 tests fail with InvocationTargetException
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, sspitsyn

Summary: note all MemberNames created on internal list for adjusting method entries.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, lfoltan

Summary: Implemented the interface in sun.misc.URLClassPath and corresponding JVM_XXX APIs
Reviewed-by: mchung, acorn, jiangli, dholmes

Summary: Cleaned up CDS to be more configurable, maintainable and extensible
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn, mchung

Summary: Improve protection domain check in forName()
Reviewed-by: mchung, acorn, jdn

8043029: Change 8037816 breaks HS build with older GCC versions which don't support diagnostic pragmas
8043164: Format warning in traceStream.hpp
Summary: Backport of main fix + two corrections, enables clang compilation, turns on format attributes, corrects/mutes warnings
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, iveresov, twisti

Reviewed-by: mgronlun, kamg

Reviewed-by: sla, zgu

8033150: invokestatic: IncompatibleClassChangeError trying to invoke static method from a parent in presence of conflicting defaults.
Summary: A static method should be preferred during method resolution over an overpass, search the current class as well as its superclasses.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, kamg

Summary: Move redo of ParkEvent.unpark() after JVMTI_EVENT_MONITOR_WAITED event handler is called.
Reviewed-by: rdurbin, acorn, sspitsyn, dsimms, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, stefank, twisti

Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes, twisti
Contributed-by: mandy.chung@oracle.com

Summary: The two functions were used to support JDK 1.3 but are no longer in use
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi, twisti, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn

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

Summary: Added AIX includes alpha-sorted before BSD. Fix compilation issues with xlC in shared code. Basic shared platform dependend adaption (vm_version etc.).
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, stefank

Summary: JVM_SetProtectionDomain has been deprecated since 1.5 and is being removed
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

Summary: replace linked data structure with array (performance)
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: christian.thalinger@oracle.com, david.r.chase@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: 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

Reviewed-by: acorn, hawtin

Reviewed-by: dcubed, rbackman
Contributed-by: NJoel Borggren-Franck <joel.franck@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Don't expose vm generated overpass (bridges to default methods).
Reviewed-by: dholmes, fparain

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

Summary: Removed is_kernel_jvm from jvm_version_info as Kernel VM has been deprecated
Reviewed-by: mchung, coleenp

8006907: Hotspot should reject classfiles with multiple MethodParameters attributes
Summary: Update to Hotspot's processing of MethodParameters attributes in classfiles
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose

Summary: Recognize VM generated method in old verifier
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavelli@oracle.com

Summary: Removed depreciated kernel VM source code from hotspot VM
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: Remove Method* from backtrace but save version so redefine classes doesn't give inaccurate line numbers.  Removed old Merlin API with duplicate code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

Summary: Also reviewed by: vitalyd@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: This patch addresses an alignment trap due to the storage format of method parameters data in constMethod.  It also adds code to validate constant pool indexes for method parameters data.
Reviewed-by: jrose, dholmes
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

Summary: Add hotspot support for parameter reflection
Reviewed-by: acorn, jrose, coleenp
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

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