[jdk18] RFR: 8279930: Synthetic cast causes generation of store barriers when using heap segments

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

When looking at larger benchmarks, I noted a discrepancy between the performance of off-heap segments and on-heap segments. Looking at the assembly for the `MemorySegment::asSlice` method I could see some additional barriers in the off-heap case, but could not initially make sense of them. Vlad pointed me at G1 (in fact no such barrier was emitted when using a different GC, such as the serial GC, or ZGC), and later Erik narrowed the problem down to a failure in a C2 optimization to remove barriers around initializing stores. This problem was caused by a synthetic cast added by javac to a value (the base object) that initialized the newly created memory segment slice. Because of that case, C2 missed the store as an "initializing" one, and inserted additional barriers. This patch should make performance of on-heap segments a lot more reliable, especially when slicing is involved.

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Commit messages:
 - Minor javadoc fix
 - Merge branch 'master' into remove_generics_heap_segments
 - Initial push

Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk18/pull/97/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk18&pr=97&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8279930
  Stats: 199 lines in 3 files changed: 172 ins; 0 del; 27 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk18/pull/97.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk18 pull/97/head:pull/97

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk18/pull/97