RFR: 8141633: Implement VarHandles/Unsafe intrinsics on AArch64

[Andrew Dinn]

On 06/07/16 13:23, Andrew Haley wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/8141633-1/
> 
> Andrew Dinn: I haven't done the rewrite rules to get rid of the
> unnecessary fences.  Every possible combination of acquire/release/
> volatile is required, so we'd have to decode the various fences and
> convert them into ld{a}xr, st{l}xr.  It'd be nice to get this done,
> but perhaps not the highest priority.

The current patch looks good to me.

I don't think it will be too hard to tweak this to use the correct
acquire/release semantics. I'll take a look at that and propose it as a
follow-up.

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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