8000263: JSR 292: signature types may appear to be unloaded
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

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>

7023639: JSR 292 method handle invocation needs a fast path for compiled code
6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: John Rose <john.r.rose@oracle.com>, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger@oracle.com>, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

7120468: SPARC/x86: use frame::describe to enhance trace_method_handle
Summary: improvements of TraceMethodHandles for JSR292
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

7120450: complete information dumped by frame_describe
Summary: improvements of frame_describe
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

7110489: C1: 64-bit tiered with ForceUnreachable: assert(reachable(src)) failed: Address should be reachable
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, twisti

7104960: JSR 292: +VerifyMethodHandles in product JVM can overflow buffer
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, twisti

7081938: JSR292: assert(magic_number_2() == MAGIC_NUMBER_2) failed
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart

7051798: SA-JDI: NPE in Frame.addressOfStackSlot(Frame.java:244)
Reviewed-by: kvn

6990212: JSR 292 JVMTI MethodEnter hook is not called for JSR 292 bootstrap and target methods
Summary: check for single stepping when dispatching invokes from method handles
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, kvn, dsamersoff

7045514: SPARC assembly code for JSR 292 ricochet frames
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

6939861: JVM should handle more conversion operations
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose