8138737: Remove oop_ms_adjust_pointers and use oop_iterate instead
Reviewed-by: kbarrett, stefank

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

8146987: Improve Parallel GC Full GC by caching results of live_words_in_range()
Summary: A large part of time in the parallel scavenge collector is spent finding out the amount of live words within memory ranges to find out where to move an object to. Try to incrementally calculate this value.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, mgerdin, jmasa
Contributed-by: ray alex <sky1young@gmail.com>

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

8138659: Speed up InstanceKlass subclass discrimination
Summary: Add _misc_kind field and flags, move around predicates.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, 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

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

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

7195622: CheckUnhandledOops has limited usefulness now
Summary: Enable CHECK_UNHANDLED_OOPS in fastdebug builds across all supported platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, dholmes, stefank, twisti, ihse, rdurbin
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

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>

7031614: jmap -permstat fails with java.lang.InternalError in sun.jvm.hotspot.oops.OopField.getValue
Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

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