RFR: 8339790: Support Intel APX setzucc instruction [v4]

[Vladimir Kozlov]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:37:27 GMT, Jatin Bhateja <jbhateja at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> - Support APX variant of SETcc, which supports zero-upper semantics (full register writer). Sets the destination operand to 0 or 1 depending on the settings of the status flags (CF, SF, OF, ZF, and PF) in the EFLAGS register. The destination operand points to a byte register or a byte in memory. The
>> condition code suffix (cc) indicates the condition being tested for. Additionally, if ND = 1 and the destination is a GPR, then also set the upper 56 bits of the GPR to 0.
>> - This saves emitting an explicit MOVZX instruction after setCC.
>> - These new instructions are encoded using 4 byte Extended EVEX encoding.
>> 
>> Validation performed over stand alone test point using Intel SDE.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Jatin
>
> Jatin Bhateja has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Review comments resolution.

Good.

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Marked as reviewed by kvn (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20920#pullrequestreview-2304195956