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

8158946: btree009 fails with assert(s > 0) failed: Bad size calculated
Summary: Set oop_size before setting _klass
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, kbarrett, tschatzl

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

8079792: GC directory structure cleanup
Reviewed-by: brutisso, stefank, david

8075955: Replace the macro based implementation of oop_oop_iterate with a template based solution
Reviewed-by: brutisso, coleenp, kbarrett, sjohanss

8075957: Reduce calls to the GC specific object visitors in oopDesc
Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin, pliden

8075247: Cleanup specialized_oop_closures.hpp
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso, tschatzl

8075242: Remove SpecializationStats
Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin

8054819: Rename HeapRegionSeq to HeapRegionManager
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa

8046670: Make CMS metadata aware closures applicable for other collectors
Reviewed-by: ehelin, mgerdin

8028497: SIGSEGV at ClassLoaderData::oops_do(OopClosure*, KlassClosure*, bool)
Summary: Keep class in CLD::_klasses list and mirror created for CDS classes if OOM during restore_shareable_info(). This keeps pointers consistent for CMS.
Reviewed-by: ehelin, stefank, jmasa, iklam

8029233: Update copyright year to match last edit in jdk8 hotspot repository for 2013
Summary: Copyright year updated for files modified during 2013
Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

8028993: Full collections with ParallelScavenge slower in JDK 8 compared to 7u40
Summary: Reducing the number of calls to follow_class_loader to speed up the marking phase. Also removed some unnecessary calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, mgerdin

8027675: Full collections with Serial slower in JDK 8 compared to 7u40
Summary: Reduced the number of calls to follow_class_loader and instead marked and pushed the klass holder directly. Also removed unneeded calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, mgerdin, tschatzl

8005915: Unify SERIALGC and INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS
Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

7195833: NPG: Rename instanceClassLoaderKlass, instanceRefKlass and instanceMirrorKlass
Summary: Simple renaming to be consistent with instanceKlass->InstanceKlass renaming
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

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>

7098528: crash with java -XX:+ExtendedDTraceProbes
Reviewed-by: kvn

7017732: move static fields into Class to prepare for perm gen removal
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank