8168699: Validate special case invocations
Reviewed-by: acorn, kvn, lfoltan, ctornqvi, ahgross, vlivanov

8170812: Metaspace corruption caused by incorrect memory size for MethodCounters
Reviewed-by: kbarrett, coleenp

8157758: JDK9 does not compile on Linux with GCC 6.1 because left-shifting a negative number has undefined behavior
Summary: Replace shifts of -1 with shifts of ~0u.
Reviewed-by: kbarrett, mockner
Contributed-by: alexhenrie24@gmail.com

8132051: Better byte behavior
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, roland, kvn, jrose, ahgross
Contributed-by: coleen.phillimore@oracle.com, roland.westerlin@oracle.com, vladimir.kozlov@oracle.com, john.r.rose@oracle.com

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

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

8073705: more performance issues in class redefinition
Summary: Optimize the method pointer adjustments for prev klass versions and MNT
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

8046246: the constantPoolCacheOopDesc::adjust_method_entries() used in RedefineClasses does not scale
Summary: optimize the adjust_method_entries functions by using the orig_method_idnum() function
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

8029381: assert(is_method_type()) failed: bad cast
Summary: Access to method_type and appendix from constant pool (cpcache) needs to be guarded by is_f1_null() because of racy update/initialization.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, jrose

8042195: Introduce umbrella header orderAccess.inline.hpp.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, stefank, twisti

8031820: NPG: Fix remaining references to metadata as oops in comments
8012125: Comments for ConstantPoolCache should reflect the addition of resolved_references in ConstantPool
Summary: Updated comments in metadata header files, and renamed this_oop variables to this_cp or this_k when referring to constant pool or classes.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa

8029396: PPC64 (part 212): Several memory ordering fixes in C-code.
Summary: memory ordering fixes in GC and other runtime code showing on PPC64.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

8025937: assert(existing_f1 == NULL || existing_f1 == f1) failed: illegal field change
Summary: Create extra constant pool cache entries for invokespecial/InterfaceMethodref to hold the alternate resolution.
Reviewed-by: jrose, lfoltan, hseigel

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

8019324: assert(_f2 == 0 || _f2 == f2) failed: illegal field change
Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman
Contributed-by: David Simms <david.simms@oracle.com>

8003553: NPG: metaspace objects should be zeroed in constructors
Summary: Zero metadata in constructors, not in allocation (and some in constructors)
Reviewed-by: jmasa, sspitsyn

7182152: Instrumentation hot swap test incorrect monitor count
Summary: Add/refine new tracing support using -XX:TraceRedefineClasses=16384.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, sspitsyn

8001658: No need to pass resolved_references as argument to ConstantPoolCacheEntry::set_method_handle_common
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: Bharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>

7200949: JSR 292: rubybench/bench/time/bench_base64.rb fails with jruby.jar not on boot class path
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

7196242: vm/mlvm/indy/stress/java/loopsAndThreads crashed
Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, jmasa, 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>