RFR: 8302780: Add support for vectorized arraycopy GC barriers [v9]

Andrew Haley aph at openjdk.org
Fri Mar 3 09:45:22 UTC 2023


On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 08:51:37 GMT, Erik Österlund <eosterlund at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> So far, the arraycopy stubs have performed some kind of bulk pre/post barriers for arraycopy, which have been good enough, and allowed the copying itself to be done with plain loads and stores. For generational ZGC, this approach is not good enough, and we need barriers for the actual copying, but instead don't need the pre/post barriers. To prepare the JVM for generational ZGC, we need to add an API for arraycopy barriers.
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> Erik Österlund has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Remove rscratch aliasing

That's good enough for me. Thanks.

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Marked as reviewed by aph (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12670


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