Request for review(M): 6964776: c2 should ensure the polling page is reachable on 64 bit

[Igor Veresov]

On 3/25/11 4:38 PM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:
> I think this looks good.
Thanks!
> Could you put a small comment on use the using directive to note that it's there to reexport the other testl variants hidden by the override?
Sure, updated.

igor
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> tom
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> On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Igor Veresov wrote:
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>> C1 and C2 could only use rip-relative addressing when emitting the page-polling code, which limited the distance from the code cache to the polling page is more than 2G (doesn't fit in a signed 32bit displacement). The solution in this case is to materialize the absolute pointer to the polling page in a register first, as we do on SPARC.
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>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iveresov/6964776/webrev.00/
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>> Thanks,
>> igor
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