Guarantee is to ensure classloader is a valid oop will help catch the errors at an early stage rather than crashing the JVM later on in the GC
Reviewed-by: coleenp
SystemDictionary::find(...) should not create and register ClassLoaderData objects for class loaders.
Co-authored-by: Erik Helin <erik.helin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn
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