Integrated: 8287567: AArch64: Implement post-call NOPs

[Andrew Haley]

On Tue, 31 May 2022 13:34:24 GMT, Andrew Haley <aph at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Post-call NOPs (introduced with Loom virtual threads) are not implemented in the AArch64 port. Given that these are a significant optimization on x86, we should have them on AArch64 too. 
> 
> I looked at a variety of possible instruction sequences, and ended up with `nop; movk zr, lo; movk zr, hi`. `movk` is typically one of the fastest AArch64 instructions, so it should be suitable. It's not possible to patch the `movk` instructions concurrently with this code executing, but as far as I can tell the offsets in post-call NOPs are only ever patched while the code is being installed.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 49e24f0c
Author:    Andrew Haley <aph at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/49e24f0cd833b77006540e871aa7d427628c058f
Stats:     46 lines in 5 files changed: 42 ins; 0 del; 4 mod

8287567: AArch64: Implement post-call NOPs

Reviewed-by: adinn, rbackman, dlong

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8955