RFR: 8267807: C2: Downcast receiver to target holder during inlining

[Roland Westrelin]

On Wed, 26 May 2021 17:58:52 GMT, Vladimir Ivanov <vlivanov at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Virtual method calls involve an implicit subtype check against callee holder. 
> But if receiver type is too broad, it has to be narrowed before parsing the callee method.
> Otherwise, it may cause problems during parsing and currently it simply blocks inlining. 
> 
> Proposed fix implements the narrowing step and re-enables inlining.
> 
> Testing:
> - [x] hs-tier1 - hs-tier9

Looks good to me

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Marked as reviewed by roland (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4212