RFR: 8286957: Held monitor count [v7]

[Robbin Ehn]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2022 13:05:27 GMT, Robbin Ehn <rehn at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The current implementation do not count all monitor enter, counts high up in abstraction and causes a performance regression on aarch64 with some benchmarks due to C2 changes.
>> 
>> This change makes the counting exact by pushing the counting down in the abstraction.
>> The additional JNI counter is strictly not needed, but enables us to figure out if we have monitors "on stack".
>> 
>> An uncontended lock plus unlock is 1 ns (21.5 -> 22.5) slower in C2 compiled code on x64 with the additional increment and decrement.
>> 
>> Fixed aarch64, x64, x86 and zero.
>> 
>> Passes t1-8
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> Robbin Ehn has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Fixed return value truncation and prep CA for 32 bit

Starting retesting.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/8945