RFR: 8264063: Outer Safepoint poll load should not reference the head of inner strip mined loop.

[Vladimir Kozlov]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 03:48:15 GMT, Pengfei Li <pli at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Should we also remove below part of code in `loopTransform.cpp` in this patch?
> 
> ```
> 3704         if (n->is_CountedLoop() && n->as_CountedLoop()->is_strip_mined()) {
> 3705           // In strip-mined counted loops, the CountedLoopNode may be
> 3706           // used by the address polling node of the outer safepoint.
> 3707           // Skip this use because it's safe.
> 3708           Node* sfpt = n->as_CountedLoop()->outer_safepoint();
> 3709           Node* polladr = sfpt->in(TypeFunc::Parms+0);
> 3710           if (use == polladr) {
> 3711             continue;
> 3712           }
> 3713         }
> ```

I thought that it does not harm to have this code but on other hand it will be not executed anymore.
I will removed it and I will run ArrayFill.java to make sure optimization works with strip mined loops.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3365