[Ping] Re: [8u-dev, ppc] RFR for (almost clean) backport of 8188868: PPC64: Support AES intrinsics on Big Endian

[Kazunori Ogata]

Ping.

May I get review for the almost clean backport?

Regards,
Ogata

Kazunori Ogata/Japan/IBM wrote on 2019/07/24 17:48:23:

> From: Kazunori Ogata/Japan/IBM
> To: hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net, jdk8u-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Date: 2019/07/24 17:48
> Subject: [8u-dev,  ppc] RFR for (almost clean) backport of 8188868: 
PPC64:
> Support AES intrinsics on Big Endian
> 
> Hi,
> 
> May I get review for backport of 8188868: PPC64: Support AES intrinsics 
on
> Big Endian?
> 
> The original patch itself can be applied cleanly (besides difference of 
> the source directory structure). However, one chunk failed because the 
> code just after the patched code was modified, so I manually applied the 

> chunk and renewed the patch.
> 
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8188868
> Webrev: 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ogatak/jdk8u_aes_be/8188868/webrev.02/
> 
> This backport is low risk and affects only PPC64 only. I verified there 
> was no degradation in "make test" results and SPECjbb 2015 ran fine. The 

> intrinsics added in this changeset improved max jOPS by 5% and critical 
jOPS by 4%. 
> 
> Regards,
> Ogata