x86 registers passed to other ISA target assemblers

[Venkatachalam, Vasanth]

Hi,

I noticed that when running BasicPTXTest.java, the PTX assembler is getting passed AMD64 Registers. This became apparent when I hacked the assembler routines to print the names of the Register parameters passed.

After single stepping through the code to understand how AMD64 registers are coming into the picture, I found a routine AMD64HotspotGraalRuntime.makeInstance(), which is instantiating a new
new AMD64HotspotGraalRuntime(). It looks like this routine is getting called by graalVMToCompiler.cpp in the below lines:

Handle VMToCompiler::graalRuntime() {
  if (JNIHandles::resolve(_graalRuntimePermObject) == NULL) {
#ifdef AMD64
    Symbol* name = vmSymbols::com_oracle_graal_hotspot_amd64_AMD64HotSpotGraalRuntime();
#endif
    KlassHandle klass = loadClass(name);

    JavaValue result(T_OBJECT);
    JavaCalls::call_static(&result, klass, vmSymbols::makeInstance_name(), vmSymbols::getInstance_signature(), Thread::current());

>From the above code, it looks like the VM is defaulting  to use the AMD64 runtime in cases where you are running on an AMD64 platform, even if we are running a test case for one of the other ISAs (BasicPTXTest) that simply prints out the code that is generated (without executing the code).
Am I correct in thinking this is why AMD64 registers are getting passed into the PTX Assembler?


Vasanth