[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR(M): 8233743: AArch64: Make r27 conditionally allocatable

[Andrew Haley]

On 12/20/19 10:21 AM, Pengfei Li wrote:
> Since Nick's recent metaspace reservation fix [1] has completely removed the use of r27, my patch becomes much simpler now. I have removed the condition of UseCompressedClassPointers, rebased the code and created a new webrev. Could you please help review again?

What happens when we use Graal as a replacement for C2, particularly
when Graal needs a heap base register?

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