RFR: 8260355: AArch64: deoptimization stub should save vector registers [v4]

[Vladimir Ivanov]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 10:21:02 GMT, Nick Gasson <ngasson at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is an AArch64 port of the fix for JDK-8256056 "Deoptimization stub
>> doesn't save vector registers on x86". The problem is that a vector
>> produced by the Vector API may be stored in a register when the deopt
>> blob is called. Because the deopt blob only stores the lower half of
>> vector registers, the full vector object cannot be rematerialized during
>> deoptimization. So the following will crash on AArch64 with current JDK:
>> 
>>   make test TEST="jdk/incubator/vector" \
>>     JTREG="VM_OPTIONS=-XX:+DeoptimizeALot -XX:DeoptimizeALotInterval=0"
>> 
>> The fix is to store the full vector registers by passing
>> save_vectors=true to save_live_registers() in the deopt blob. Because
>> save_live_registers() places the integer registers above the floating
>> registers in the stack frame, RegisterSaver::r0_offset_in_bytes() needs
>> to calculate the SP offset based on whether full vectors were saved, and
>> whether those vectors were NEON or SVE, rather than using a static
>> offset as it does currently.
>> 
>> The change to VectorSupport::allocate_vector_payload_helper() is
>> required because we only store the lowest VMReg slot in the oop map.
>> However unlike x86 the vector registers are always saved in a contiguous
>> region of memory, so we can calculate the address of each vector element
>> as an offset from the address of the first slot. X86 handles this in
>> RegisterMap::pd_location() but that won't work on AArch64 because with
>> SVE there isn't a unique VMReg corresponding to each four-byte physical
>> slot in the vector (there are always exactly eight logical VMRegs
>> regardless of the actual vector length).
>> 
>> Tested hotspot_all_no_apps and jdk_core.
>
> Nick Gasson has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Review comments

`RegisterMap`-related changes look good.

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Marked as reviewed by vlivanov (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2279