8171392: Move Klass pointers outside of ConstantPool entries so ConstantPool can be read-only
Summary: Added _resolved_klasses; moved _resolved_references to ConstantPoolCache, etc.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, lfoltan, simonis, aph

8172020: Internal Error (cpu/arm/vm/frame_arm.cpp:571): assert(obj == __null || Universe::heap()->is_in(obj)) failed: sanity check #
Summary: do check_and_handle_earlyret() on method return
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, aph, adinn, simonis

8132051: Better byte behavior
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, roland, kvn, jrose, ahgross
Contributed-by: coleen.phillimore@oracle.com, roland.westerlin@oracle.com, vladimir.kozlov@oracle.com, john.r.rose@oracle.com

8074457: Remove the non-Zero CPP Interpreter
Summary: Remove cppInterpreter assembly files and reorganize InterpreterGenerator includes
Reviewed-by: goetz, bdelsart

8136421: JEP 243: Java-Level JVM Compiler Interface
Reviewed-by: ihse, alanb, roland, coleenp, iveresov, kvn, kbarrett

8136525: Generate interpreter entries only once and avoid unnecessary jump to jump
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, aph

8081320: Backout JDK-8059340: ConstantPool::_resolved_references is missing in heap dump
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, coleenp

8059340: ConstantPool::_resolved_references is missing in heap dump
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, stefank, twisti

8078349: remove dead code - fast_iagetfield
Summary: Unused function fast_iagetfield has been removed.
Reviewed-by: hseigel, coleenp

8059606: Enable per-method usage of CompileThresholdScaling (per-method compilation thresholds)
Summary: Changed interpreter and compilation policies to allow using CompileThresholdScaling on a per-method level
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

8026253: New type profiling points: sparc support
Summary: c1 and interpreter support for new type profiling on sparc
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8010862: The Method counter fields used for profiling can be allocated lazily.
Summary: Allocate the method's profiling related metadata until they are needed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

8003250: SPARC: move MacroAssembler into separate file
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

6964458: Reimplement class meta-data storage to use native memory
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: jmasa <jon.masamitsu@oracle.com>, stefank <stefan.karlsson@oracle.com>, mgerdin <mikael.gerdin@oracle.com>, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

7172967: Eliminate constMethod's _method backpointer to methodOop.
Summary: Eliminate constMethod's _method backpointer to methodOop, and move the _constant field from methodOop to constMethod.
Reviewed-by: roland, bdelsart, kamg

7071653: JSR 292: call site change notification should be pushed not pulled
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

4930919: race condition in MDO creation at back branch locations
Summary: Reuse set_method_data_for_bcp() to setup mdp after MDO creation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6989984: Use standard include model for Hospot
Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

6953144: Tiered compilation
Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

Merge

6939207: refactor constant pool index processing
Summary: Factored cleanup of instruction decode which prepares for enhanced ldc semantics.
Reviewed-by: twisti

6941466: Oracle rebranding changes for Hotspot repositories
Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

6943304: remove tagged stack interpreter
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never, gbenson

6829193: JSR 292 needs to support SPARC
Summary: There are unimplemented portions of the hotspot code for method handles and invokedynamic specific to SPARC.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

6919934: JSR 292 needs to support x86 C1
Summary: This implements JSR 292 support for C1 x86.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose, kvn

6614597: Performance variability in jvm2008 xml.validation
Summary: Fix incorrect marking of methods as not compilable.
Reviewed-by: never

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