RFR: 8305055: IR check fails on some aarch64 platforms

Thu Mar 30 07:45:15 UTC 2023

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 04:13:39 GMT, Fei Gao <fgao at openjdk.org> wrote:

> As @eme64 said in [1], [JDK-8298935](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8298935) introduced some "collateral damage", disabling the vectorization of some conversions when `+AlignVector`. That affects IR checks of `TestVectorizeTypeConversion.java` and `ArrayTypeConvertTest.java` on some `aarch64` platforms like ThunderX and ThunderX2 [2].
> 
> This trivial patch is to allow IR check only when we have `-AlignVector`.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/12350#issuecomment-1470065706
> [2] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/7239150f8aff0e3dc07c5b27f6b7fb07237bfc55/src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/vm_version_aarch64.cpp#L154

+1 to Emanuel's suggestion. Looks good to me otherwise.

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Marked as reviewed by thartmann (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13236#pullrequestreview-1364511006