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

8180763: Improve inlining of Symbol::equals(char*,int) into CompactHashtable
Reviewed-by: iklam, jiangli

8157907: Incorrect inclusion of atomic.hpp instead of atomic.inline.hpp
Summary: Remove atomic.inline.hpp and move the contents back into atomic.hpp
Reviewed-by: stefank, pliden, simonis

8162340: Better class stream parsing
Summary: Check platform and boot loader for java/* packages
Reviewed-by: lfoltan, coleenp, dholmes

8153967: Remove top.hpp
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jwilhelm

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

8139996: CompileCommand prints quoted ascii strings
Summary: Print symbols as utf8
Reviewed-by: kvn

8130115: REDO - Reduce Symbol::_identity_hash to 2 bytes
Summary: Convert Symbol::_identity_hash from integer to short integer to save two bytes. Also change identity_hash() to have 'this' and first two bytes of symbol join the calculation.
Reviewed-by: iklam, coleenp, shade

8025692: Log what methods are touched at run-time
Summary: Added two diagnostic flags, LogTouchedMethods and PrintTouchedMethodsAtExit to list all methods that have been touched at run time. Added new jcmd, VM.print_touched_methods.
Reviewed-by: acorn, iklam

8130135: backout 8087143 due to failures in 8130115
Reviewed-by: minqi, coleenp

8087143: Reduce Symbol::_identity_hash to 2 bytes
Summary: Convert Symbol::_identity_hash from integer to short integer to save two bytes. Also change identity_hash() to have 'this' and first two bytes of symbol join the calculation.
Reviewed-by: iklam, coleenp, shade

8033792: AltHashing used jint for imprecise bit shifting
Summary: AltHashing used jint the way of juint in bit shifting which could lead loss of precision. Fix by change _seed defined as juint.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

8014013: CallInfo structure no longer accurately reports the result of a LinkResolver operation
Summary: Enhance method resolution and resulting data structures, plus some refactoring.
Reviewed-by: twisti, acorn, jrose

8021954: VM SIGSEGV during classloading on MacOS; hs_err_pid file produced
Summary: declare all user-defined operator new()s within Hotspot code with the empty throw() exception specification
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, dholmes, hseigel, dcubed, kvn, ccheung
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

8009575: Reduce Symbol::_refcount from 4 bytes to 2 bytes
Summary: Added Atomic::inc(short*) to support this change.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed, dholmes, minqi

8008959: Fix non-PCH build on Linux, Windows and MacOS X
Summary: Fix the build without precompiled headers by either including the missing ".inline.hpp" files into the appropriate files or by turning inline-functions declared in header files into ordinary functions in ".cpp" files.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank, dholmes

6830717: replay of compilations would help with debugging
Summary: When java process crashed in compiler thread, repeat the compilation process will help finding root cause. This is done with using SA dump application class data and replay data from core dump, then use debug version of jvm to recompile the problematic java method.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

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>

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

7010070: Update all 2010 Oracle-changed OpenJDK files to have the proper copyright dates - second pass
Summary: Update the copyright to be 2010 on all changed files in OpenJDK
Reviewed-by: ohair

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