RFR(M): 8031754: Type speculation should favor profile data from outermost inlined method

[Roland Westrelin]

Hi Vladimir,

>>> In general I am comfortable to have inline_depth as additional type's attribute. But only for speculative types when it make sense.
>>> 
>>> So why you keep _inline_depth in remove_speculative()?
>> 
>> Because it’s never used in practice with non speculative types (it should always be InlineDepthBottom for a non speculative type). The only place where it changes the behavior of compilation is in GraphKit::record_profile_for_speculation() where it’s used only for speculative types. Anyway, I can reset it to InlineDepthBottom in remove_speculative() if you like.
> 
> Yes, please, set to InlineDepthBottom. It will be consistent with types without speculative types.

Actually, that’s not possible. Because then, that code:

2589     if (res_oopptr->remove_speculative() == res_oopptr->speculative()) {
2590       return res_oopptr->remove_speculative();

in TypeOopPtr::xmeet()

doesn’t trigger if res_oopptr has an inline depth of InlineDepthTop. remove_speculative() transforms it to InlineDepthBottom. And the type system is no longer symmetric.

Instead shouldn’t I assert in remove_speculative() that if _speculative is non NULL then _inline_depth is InlineDepthTop or InlineDepthBottom?

Roland.