RFR: 8351994: Enable Extended EVEX to REX2/REX demotion when src and dst are the same [v23]

[Jatin Bhateja]

On Thu, 15 May 2025 17:07:14 GMT, Srinivas Vamsi Parasa <sparasa at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Intel APX NDD instructions are encoded using EVEX encoding. The goal of this PR is to enable optimized instruction encoding for Intel APX NDD instructions when the non-destructive destination is same as the first source.
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>> For example:
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>> `eaddl r18, r18, r25` can be encoded as `addl r18, r25` using APX REX2 encoding
>> `eaddl r2, r2, r7` can be encoded as `addl r2, r7` using non-APX legacy encoding
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> Srinivas Vamsi Parasa has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Update src/hotspot/cpu/x86/assembler_x86.cpp
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>   Reorder comment
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>   Co-authored-by: Jatin Bhateja <jatin.bhateja at intel.com>

Hi @vamsi-parasa ,
I don't see demotion tests being generated with with python3 x86-asmtest.py --full

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24431#pullrequestreview-2844507674