RFR: 8373495: C2: Aggressively fold loads from objects that have not escaped [v6]

[Quan Anh Mai]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 05:13:11 GMT, Quan Anh Mai <qamai at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi,
>> 
>> The current escape analysis mechanism is all-or-nothing: either the object does not escape, or it does. If the object escapes, we lose the ability to analyse the values of its fields completely, even if the object only escapes at return.
>> 
>> This PR tries to find the escape status of an object at a load, and if it is decided that the object has not escaped there, we can try folding the load aggressively, ignoring calls and memory barriers to find a corresponding store that the load observes.
>> 
>> For the runtime cost, this phase runs very fast, around 5 - 7% the runtime of EA, and about 0.5% the total runtime of C2.
>> 
>> Please take a look and leave your thoughts, thanks a lot.
>
> Quan Anh Mai has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains seven additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge branch 'master' into foldmem
>  - grammar, safe change
>  - more detailed explanations
>  - store values need normalizing
>  - Just use candidate_set directly
>  - Some runtime calls may receive a derived pointer but not the base
>  - Aggressively fold loads from objects that have not escaped

Close in favour of #28812

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28764#issuecomment-3649952432