RFR: 8272736: [JVMCI] Add API for reading and writing JVMCI thread locals [v2]

[Coleen Phillimore]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 05:23:49 GMT, Tom Rodriguez <never at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 8272736: [JVMCI] Add API for reading and writing JVMCI thread locals
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>   8272736: [JVMCI] Add API for reading and writing JVMCI thread locals

src/hotspot/share/runtime/thread.hpp line 996:

> 994:     return _jvmci_reserved1;
> 995:   }
> 996: 

This makes me reprise my wish that this code was in jvmciThread.hpp and you indirect from thread to there.  Can you do that?  There's already an RFE somewhere.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5192