8072061: Automatically determine optimal sizes for the CDS regions
Summary: See new C++ class MetaspaceClosure.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jiangli, mseledtsov

8180048: Interned string and symbol table leak memory during parallel unlinking
Summary: Make appending found dead BasicHashtableEntrys to the free list atomic.
Reviewed-by: ehelin, shade, coleenp

8150752: Share Class Data
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel, mschoene

8150607: Clean up CompactHashtable
Summary: refactored code, and added test cases for serviceability agent
Reviewed-by: jiangli, ccheung

8152380: Shared symbol table should never use alternate hashcode
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jiangli

8145940: TempNewSymbol should have correct copy and assignment functions
Summary: Add clear() to the assignment operator and add copy constructor.
Reviewed-by: mgronlun, lfoltan, kbarrett, jrose

8143255: Remove debug logging from SymbolTable::unlink() and SymbolTable::possibly_parallel_unlink()
Reviewed-by: coleenp, tschatzl

Merge

8141132: JEP 254: Compact Strings
Summary: Adopt a more space-efficient internal representation for strings.
Reviewed-by: alanb, bdelsart, coleenp, iklam, jiangli, jrose, kevinw, naoto, pliden, roland, smarks, twisti
Contributed-by: Brent Christian <brent.christian@oracle.com>, Vivek Deshpande <vivek.r.deshpande@intel.com>, Tobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann@oracle.com>, Charlie Hunt <charlie.hunt@oracle.com>, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov@oracle.com>, Roger Riggs <roger.riggs@oracle.com>, Xueming Shen <xueming.shen@oracle.com>, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>, Sandhya Viswanathan <sandhya.viswanathan@intel.com>

8140274: methodHandles and constantPoolHandles should be passed as const references
Summary: modified code to use const reference parameters
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, twisti

8059510: Compact symbol table layout inside shared archive.
Summary: Use separate compact table for shared symbols.
Reviewed-by: iklam, gziemski, shade, sla, jrose

8056084: Refactor Hashtable to allow implementations without rehashing support
Reviewed-by: gziemski, jmasa, brutisso, coleenp, tschatzl

8038654: Separate SymbolTable and StringTable code
Summary: Refactor stringTable class out of symbolTable, making sure all includes are minimal set and are sorted.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

8027476: Improve performance of Stringtable unlink
8027455: Improve symbol table scan times during gc pauses
Summary: Parallelize string table and symbol table scan during remark and full GC. Some additional statistics output if the experimental flag G1TraceStringSymbolTableScrubbing is set.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, brutisso

8019375: Internal symbol table size should be tunable.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

8019835: Strings interned in different threads equal but does not ==
Summary: Add -XX:+VerifyStringTableAtExit option and code to verify StringTable invariants.
Reviewed-by: rdurbin, sspitsyn, coleenp

8015237: Parallelize string table scanning during strong root processing
Summary: Parallelize the scanning of the intern string table by having each GC worker claim a given number of buckets. Changes were also reviewed by Per Liden <per.liden@oracle.com>.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, stefank, twisti

8015422: Large performance hit when the StringTable is walked twice in Parallel Scavenge
Summary: Combine the calls to StringTable::unlink and StringTable::oops_do in Parallel Scavenge.
Reviewed-by: pliden, coleenp

8009763: Add WB test for String.intern()
Summary: Add convenience method in StringTable, add WhiteBox method and simple sanity test
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, zgu
Contributed-by: leonid.mesnik@oracle.com

7122219: Passed StringTableSize value not verified
Summary: Check that the values specified for -XX:StringTableSize are within a certain range.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

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>

7181200: JVM new hashing code breaks SA in product mode
Summary: Made new_hash() overloaded rather than a virtual function so SA code doesn't need to be changed.
Reviewed-by: kvn, acorn, dholmes, fparain

6995781: Native Memory Tracking (Phase 1)
7151532: DCmd for hotspot native memory tracking
Summary: Implementation of native memory tracking phase 1, which tracks VM native memory usage, and related DCmd
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, fparain

7178670: runtime/7158800/BadUtf8.java fails in SymbolTable::rehash_table
Summary: Cannot delete _buckets and HashtableEntries in shared space (CDS)
Reviewed-by: acorn, kvn, dlong, dcubed, kamg

7158800: Improve storage of symbol tables
Summary: Use an alternate version of hashing algorithm for symbol string tables and after a certain bucket size to improve performance
Reviewed-by: pbk, kamg, dlong, kvn, fparain

7150058: Allocate symbols from null boot loader to an arena for NMT
Summary: Move symbol allocation to an arena so NMT doesn't have to track them at startup.
Reviewed-by: never, kamg, zgu

7115199: Add event tracing hooks and Java Flight Recorder infrastructure
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

7032129: Native memory usage grow unexpectedly for vm/oom/*InternedString tests
Reviewed-by: kvn, kamg, jcoomes

6962930: make the string table size configurable
Reviewed-by: never, phh, stefank, kamg, dholmes, coleenp

6990754: Use native memory and reference counting to implement SymbolTable
Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

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

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

6814659: separable cleanups and subroutines for 6655638
Summary: preparatory but separable changes for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Initial load