8186842: Use Java class loaders for creating the CDS archive
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jiangli, iklam, mseledtsov
Contributed-by: calvin.cheung@oracle.com, ioi.lam@oracle.com

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

8155672: Remove instanceKlassHandles and KlassHandles
Summary: Summary: Use unhandled pointers for Klass and InstanceKlass, remove handles with no implementation.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, lfoltan, vlivanov, sspitsyn

8158854: Ensure release_store is paired with load_acquire in lock-free code
Reviewed-by: shade, dcubed, zgu

8142968: Module System implementation
Summary: Initial integration of JEP 200, JEP 260, JEP 261, and JEP 282
Reviewed-by: acorn, ccheung, coleenp, ctornqvi, dholmes, dsimms, gtriantafill, iklam, jiangli, mgronlun, mseledtsov, cjplummer, sspitsyn, stefank, twisti, hseigel, lfoltan, alanb, mchung, dfazunen
Contributed-by: alan.bateman@oracle.com, alex.buckley@oracle.com, jonathan.gibbons@oracle.com, karen.kinnear@oracle.com, mandy.chung@oracle.com, mark.reinhold@oracle.com, harold.seigel@oracle.com, lois.foltan@oracle.com, calvin.cheung@oracle.com, christian.tornqvist@oracle.com, erik.joelsson@oracle.com, george.triantafillou@oracle.com, igor.ignatyev@oracle.com, ioi.lam@oracle.com, james.laskey@oracle.com, jean-francois.denise@oracle.com, jiangli.zhou@oracle.com, markus.gronlund@oracle.com, serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com, staffan.larsen@oracle.com, sundararajan.athijegannathan@oracle.com

8148481: Devirtualize Klass::vtable
Summary: Move remainder of vtable related methods to Klass
Reviewed-by: cjplummer, coleenp

8148047: Move the vtable length field to Klass
Reviewed-by: cjplummer, twisti, coleenp, kbarrett

8145628: hotspot metadata classes shouldn't use HeapWordSize or heap related macros like align_object_size
Summary: Use align_metadata_size, align_metadata_offset and is_metadata_aligned for metadata rather than align_object_size, etc. Use wordSize rather than HeapWordSize for metadata. Use align_ptr_up rather than align_pointer_up (all the related functions are ptr).
Reviewed-by: hseigel, jmasa, cjplummer

8140485: Class load and creation cleanup
Reviewed-by: hseigel, coleenp, sspitsyn

8139203: Consistent naming for klass type predicates
8138923: Remove oop coupling with InstanceKlass subclasses
Summary: Renamed oop_is_instance and friends, removed the functions in oop that dug down into InstanceKlass.
Reviewed-by: jrose, lfoltan, stefank

8129417: Oop iteration clean-up to remove oop_ms_follow_contents
Reviewed-by: pliden, ehelin

8080746: Refactor oop iteration macros to be more general
Reviewed-by: stefank, pliden

8067480: Crash in klassItable::initialize_itable_for_interface when running vm.runtime.defmeth.StaticMethodsTest.
Summary: A static method should be skipped in entirety by find_instance_method(), searching should continue to find an overpass method of the same name and signature if present.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel

8036805: Correct linker method lookup.
Summary: Correct handling of array of primitive type qualifiers during field and method resolution.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel, ahgross

8049105: Move array component mirror to instance of java/lang/Class (hotspot part 2)
Summary: This removes component mirrors from arrayKlass metadata and the C2 intrinsic for them.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, mgerdin

8046070: Class Data Sharing clean up and refactoring
Summary: Cleaned up CDS to be more configurable, maintainable and extensible
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn, mchung

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

8027146: Class loading verification failure if GC occurs in Universe::flush_dependents_on
Summary: Remove search in system dictionary and hacks, replace with verifying in CLD::_klasses list.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn

7133260: AllocationProfiler uses space in metadata and doesn't seem to do anything useful.
Summary: Remove -Xaprof and Klass::_alloc_count & ArrayKlass::_alloc_size.
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

8016325: JVM hangs verifying system dictionary
Summary: Minimize redundant verifications of Klasses.
Reviewed-by: hseigel, jmasa

6479360: PrintClassHistogram improvements
Summary: jcmd <pid> GC.class_stats (UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions)
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, sla, acorn
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

8000213: NPG: Should have renamed arrayKlass and typeArrayKlass
Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, 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>

7118863: Move sizeof(klassOopDesc) into the *Klass::*_offset_in_bytes() functions
Summary: Moved sizeof(klassOopDesc), changed the return type to ByteSize and removed the _in_bytes suffix.
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart, coleenp, jrose

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

7011386: race in objArrayKlass::array_klass_impl
Summary: Move _lower_dimension field initialization before _higher_dimension and add storestore barrier.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, iveresov, never

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

6953477: Increase portability and flexibility of building Hotspot
Summary: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

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

6914300: ciEnv should export all well known classes
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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