8171008: Integrate AOT compiler into JDK
Reviewed-by: erikj, mchung, psandoz, coleenp, iklam, stefank, simonis
Contributed-by: Bharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>, Christian Thalinger <cthalinger@twitter.com>, Dean Long <dean.long@oracle.com>, Dmitrij Pochepko <dmitrij.pochepko@oracle.com>, Dmitry Chuyko <dmitry.chuyko@oracle.com>, Doug Simon <doug.simon@oracle.com>, Eric Caspole <eric.caspole@oracle.com>, Igor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>, Igor Veresov <igor.veresov@oracle.com>, John Rose <john.r.rose@oracle.com>, Morris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>, Niclas Adlertz <niclas.adlertz@oracle.com>, Rickard Backman <rickard.backman@oracle.com>

8152311: [JVMCI] allow JVMCI compiler to change the compilation policy for a method
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

8151956: Support non-continuous CodeBlobs in HotSpot
Reviewed-by: iveresov, thartmann, simonis

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

8059606: Enable per-method usage of CompileThresholdScaling (per-method compilation thresholds)
Summary: Changed interpreter and compilation policies to allow using CompileThresholdScaling on a per-method level
Reviewed-by: jrose, 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>

7131259: compile_method and CompilationPolicy::event shouldn't be declared TRAPS
Summary: Make sure that CompilationPolicy::event() doesn't throw exceptions
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

7112085: assert(fr.interpreter_frame_expression_stack_size()==0) failed: only handle empty stacks
Summary: Move the inlinee invoke notification callback into inlinee preamble
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

7066339: Tiered: policy should make consistent decisions about osr levels
Summary: Added feedback disabling flag to common(), fixed handling of TieredStopAtLevel.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

7057120: Tiered: Allow C1 to inline methods with loops
Summary: Recompile the enclosing methods without inlining of the method that has OSRed to level 4 or recompile the enclosing method at level 4.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

7043564: compile warning and copyright fixes
Summary: Fixed the warning, also fixed copyrights in a bunch of files.
Reviewed-by: johnc, kvn

7017434: Tiered needs to support reprofiling
Summary: Tiered needs to support proper method reprofiling after deopts.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

6953144: Tiered compilation
Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti