RFR: 8255351: Add detection for Graviton 1 & 2 CPUs

Mon Nov 23 21:07:09 UTC 2020

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 12:39:47 GMT, Eugene Astigeevich <github.com+42899633+eastig at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This commit adds detection for Graviton 1 (as Cortex-A72) and for Graviton 2 (as Neoverse N1) and enables UseSIMDForMemoryOps for them.
> 
> The patch passed jtreg tier1-2 and all gtest tests with linux-aarch64-server-release build.

Yes, that's good. Handling potential regressions/improvements in #1293 is fine for me.

Evgeny works for the Amazon Corretto team and is covered by the Amazon OCA.

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Marked as reviewed by simonis (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1315