RFR (L): 8035857: Add tests to verify correctness of operations with BMI1 and LZCNT instructions

[Filipp Zhinkin]

Hi Vladimir,

thank you for looking at it.

On 03/21/2014 06:13 AM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> Filipp,
>
> In Asserts.java (line < longestStringLines.length) condition is 
> strange. First, you don't brake the loop, so iterates until line == 
> minLength. So the condition can simply check (minLength < 
> longestStringLines.length) and you can put 'int line' inside for(). 
> Keep loop index variable outside loop is bad practice.
I'll fix it.
>
> Can you pass WB into CPUInfo() constructor instead of 
> wb.getCPUFeatures() to shorter expression?:
>
> new CPUInfo(wb).hasFeature("bmi1")
>
> Or it is difficult?
I'll fix it too.

Thanks,
Filipp.
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
> On 3/20/14 12:12 PM, Filipp Zhinkin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like to add new tests that verifies correctness of code that
>> use BMI1 and LZCNT instructions.
>>
>> Tests executed in two JVM processes - one started in Xint mode
>> and other in Xcomp. Results obtained from these processes compared
>> and tests pass only if results are equal.
>>
>> Despite the fact that there is a test on
>> {Integer,Long}::{numberOfLeadingZeros,numberOfTrailingZeros} intrinsics
>> (compiler/6823354/Test6823354.java), I've added test cases to cover it
>> too in order to verify that everything works fine with explicitly 
>> specified
>> +UseCountTrailingZerosInstruction and +UseCountLeadingZerosInstruction.
>>
>> Test execution will be skipped if CPU on test box does not support
>> required features. In order to check supported features new WB method
>> was added. WhiteBox::getCPUFeatures() return VM_Version::cpu_features()
>> string, which is parsed in order to gather CPU features.
>>
>> Webrev: 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iignatyev/fzhinkin/8035857/webrev.00/
>> Testing: JPRT, manual, automated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Filipp.