8138923: Remove oop coupling with InstanceKlass subclasses
Renamed oop_is_instance and friends, removed the functions in oop that dug down into InstanceKlass.
Reviewed-by: jrose, lfoltan, stefank
Validate the arguments to all JVM command-line flags so as to avoid crashes, and ensure that appropriate error messages are displayed when they are invalid.
Reviewed-by: ddmitriev, dholmes, kbarrett, drwhite, brutisso, coleenp
Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Co-authored-by: Stefan Karlsson <stefan.karlsson@oracle.com>
Co-authored-by: Mikael Gerdin <mikael.gerdin@oracle.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Rodriguez <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Integrate bsd-port/hotspot and macosx-port/hotspot changes as of 2011.09.29.
Co-authored-by: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
Co-authored-by: Kurt Miller <kurt@intricatesoftware.com>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Mike Swingler <swingler@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Roger Hoover <rhoover@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Victor Hernandez <vhernandez@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Pratik Solanki <psolanki@apple.com>
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, never, phh