RFR: 8371065: C2 SuperWord: VTransformLoopPhiNode::apply set wrong type, led to wrong constant folding of phi [v8]

Emanuel Peter epeter at openjdk.org
Tue Nov 11 07:25:49 UTC 2025


> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> ---------
> 
> 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.

Emanuel Peter has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:

 - cleanup
 - refine fix

-------------

Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28113/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28113/files/dfc7c87e..5f720e72

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28113&range=07
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=28113&range=06-07

  Stats: 14 lines in 2 files changed: 4 ins; 6 del; 4 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28113.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/28113/head:pull/28113

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28113


More information about the hotspot-compiler-dev mailing list