Summary: 7u4 new experimental flag -XX:PredictedClassLoadedCount=#
Reviewed-by: dholmes, phh, dcubed

Summary: Add CriticalPriority == MaxPriority+1 and enable scheduling class as well as thread priority to change on Solaris.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart, kvn, twisti

Summary: fix for debug method frame::describe
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: phh, bobv, coleenp, dcubed
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Summary: Added a nop tracing infrastructure, JFR makefile changes and other infrastructure used only by JFR.
Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: markus.gronlund@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: acorn, phh, dcubed, sspitsyn

Summary: Nested locks elimination done before lock nodes expansion by looking for outer locks of the same object.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Add os::get_last_error(), replace getLastErrorString() by os::lasterror() in os_windows.cpp.
Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes
Contributed-by: erik.gahlin@oracle.com

Summary: Add rdtsc detection and inline generation.
Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes
Contributed-by: karen.kinnear@oracle.com

7123315: instanceKlass::_static_oop_field_count and instanceKlass::_java_fields_count should be u2 type.
Summary: Change instanceKlass::_static_oop_field_count and instanceKlass::_java_fields_count to u2 type.
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart, dholmes
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Summary: In os::free_memory() use mmap with the same attributes as for the heap space
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Ignatenko <aleksey.v.ignatenko@intel.com>

Summary: Revamp class os's socket method formal args to match socket.h, insert casts in appropriate places, and copyin-copyout int*'s that s/b socklen_t*'s in jvm.cpp.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes
Contributed-by: erik.gahlin@oracle.com, rickard.backman@oracle.com, nils.loodin@oracle.com, markus.gronlund@oracle.com

Summary: Add Flag::external_ext()/writable_ext(), both return false.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu

Summary: Change variables representing the number of GC workers to uint from int and size_t.  Change the parameter in work(int i) to work(uint worker_id).
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tonyp

Summary: missing release barrier in Monitor::IUnlock
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dice

Summary: UseCompressedOops is false by default on MacOS X; can still be set manually
Reviewed-by: jmelvin, kvn, dholmes

Summary: Added support for AVX extension to the x86 instruction set.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Exercise C2 more in tiered mode with Xcomp
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Added handles for references to methods in select_task()
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Change instanceKlass::_init_state field to u1 type.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, coleenp, dholmes, phh, never
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Summary: Add a file, globals_ext.hpp, containing a null interface, to be replaced by a vendor in altsrc as needed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, dholmes, johnc, jrose

Summary: Revert 7116481 to current hsx/hotspot-main
Reviewed-by: kamg

Summary: Add -XX:+UnlockCommercialVMOptions to gate use of commercial feature switches in the same way as -XX:UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions gates use of diagnostic feature switches.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, kamg

Summary: Reduce class runtime memory usage by packing 4 instanceKlass boolean fields into single u1 field. Save 4-byte for each loaded class.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, bobv, phh, twisti, never, coleenp
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Summary: Disable PrintVMOptions by default for all builds
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, twisti

Summary: Use dead nodes elimination code in PhaseIdealLoop before executing EA.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Disable PrintVMOptions in embedded debug builds so tests are unaffected by extra output
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp, phh, fparain, dsamersoff

7103224: collision between __LEAF define in interfaceSupport.hpp and /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h with gcc
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: NOmair Majid <omajid@redhat.com>

7101642: JSR 292: SIGSEGV in java.lang.invoke.MethodHandleImpl$FieldAccessor.getFieldI(Ljava/lang/Object;)I
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Integrate bsd-port/hotspot and macosx-port/hotspot changes as of 2011.09.29.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, never, phh
Contributed-by: NChristos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Kurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Alexander Strange &lt;astrange@apple.com&gt;, Mike Swingler &lt;swingler@apple.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Victor Hernandez &lt;vhernandez@apple.com&gt;, Pratik Solanki <psolanki@apple.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jcoomes, bobv

Summary: Retry the call to fast_exception_handler_bci_for() after it returned with a pending exception. Don't cache the exception handler pc computed by compute_compiled_exc_handler() if the handler is for another (nested) exception.
Reviewed-by: kamg, kvn
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: Enable invocation events for inlinees
Reviewed-by: kvn

7092278: "jmap -finalizerinfo" throws "sun.jvm.hotspot.utilities.AssertionFailure: invalid cp index 0 137"
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>