RFR: 8286941: Add mask IR for partial vector operations for ARM SVE [v5]

[Xiaohong Gong]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 03:53:26 GMT, Ningsheng Jian <njian at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Xiaohong Gong has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains six commits:
>> 
>>  - Merge branch 'jdk:master' into JDK-8286941
>>  - Fix the ci build issue
>>  - Address review comments, revert changes for gatherL/scatterL rules
>>  - Merge branch 'jdk:master' into JDK-8286941
>>  - Revert transformation from MaskAll to VectorMaskGen, address review comments
>>  - 8286941: Add mask IR for partial vector operations for ARM SVE
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> src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/assembler_aarch64.hpp line 3636:
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>> 3634: #undef INSN
>> 3635: 
>> 3636: // SVE predicate generation (32-bit and 64-bit variants)
> 
> Suggestion:
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> // SVE integer compare scalar count and limit

Thanks for the comments! I'v updated the patch.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9037