RFR: 8371065: C2 SuperWord: VTransformLoopPhiNode::apply set wrong type, led to wrong constant folding of phi

[Quan Anh Mai]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 15:20:37 GMT, Emanuel Peter <epeter at openjdk.org> wrote:

> In `VTransformLoopPhiNode::apply`, we may have to modify the type of the phi node, because it may have been turned from a scalar phi to a vector phi by `VTransformReductionVectorNode::optimize_move_non_strict_order_reductions_out_of_loop`. This logic was refactored in https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/27704, and I missed an edges case.
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> The issue is when we also (uslessly) set the type of phis that stay scalar: the `in1` type can be a constant, and then we set the `phi` type to be constant. And then the phi wrongly constant folds.
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> I now limit the modification to cases where the `phi` used to be for scalars, but now is for vectors. In those cases we should not have a constant. For good measure, I also added a corresponding assert.
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> Thanks @rwestrel for filing this issue and spending a lot of time reproducing it without his changes.
> I tried to find a simpler reproducer, but it was difficult: We need a constant on the lhs of the phi in the main-loop. But this requires us to constant-fold the pre-loop phi, and somehow magically not constant fold the phi of the main-loop. That is quite tricky, and I gave up.

LGTM, another approach may be to add a method `Type::local_bottom` that will return the local bottom of a type (e.g. `Type::INT` for an `Int`).

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Marked as reviewed by qamai (Committer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28113#pullrequestreview-3429411423