RFR: 8298075: RISC-V: Implement post-call NOPs [v6]

[Ludovic Henry]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 10:41:59 GMT, Xiaolin Zheng <xlinzheng at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Same as [JDK-8287567](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8287567), we need to implement post-call NOPs in the RISC-V backend.
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>> We use `li32` to implement it. `li32` will signed-extend the loaded imm32 to a 64-bit register. However, our reader `NativePostCallNop::displacement()` only needs the low 32 bits value so we are safe.
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>> The current post-call NOP is like:
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>> nop                    (always 4-byte, used for deoptimization, please see `NativePostCallNop::make_deopt()`)
>> lui zr, <imm20>        (always 4-byte)
>> addiw zr, zr, <imm12>  (always 4-byte)
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>> The code size here is the same as the AArch64 counterpart, 12 bytes.
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>> The logic of setting the post-call NOP displacement is at `install_post_call_nop_displacement()` [1] when nmethods are being installed, so no one is running post-call NOPs when we are patching them.
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>> One can check them by directly using `java --enable-preview -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+PrintAssembly`.
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>> Tested hotspot tier1~4 and jdk tier1~4 using fastdebug by force turning on `--enable-preview`; SPECjbb2015 and dacapo were tested without regressions found. Skynet JMH benchmark seems to have an improvement from `8662ms/op -> 8495ms/op`.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Xiaolin
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>> [1] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/b49fd920b6690a8b828c85e45c10e5c4c54d2022/src/hotspot/share/code/nmethod.cpp#L1078-L1107
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> Xiaolin Zheng has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Plural form...

Marked as reviewed by luhenry (Committer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11502