RFR: JDK-8323497: On x64, use 32-bit immediate moves for narrow klass base if possible

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:09:50 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

> On x64, we always use the long form of mov immediate to load the klass base into a register. If the klass base fits into 32 bits, we could use the short form and save four instruction bytes. 
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> Before: mov uses 10 instruction bytes:
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>    35  ;; decode_klass_not_null
>    36   0x00007f8b089e51c4:   movabs $0x82000000,%r11
>    37   0x00007f8b089e51ce:   add    %r11,%r10
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> Now: mov uses 6 instruction bytes:
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>    35  ;; decode_klass_not_null
>    36   0x00007fbe609e51c4:   mov    $0x82000000,%r11d
>    37   0x00007fbe609e51ca:   add    %r11,%r10
> 
> 
> Note that this also works with CDS enabled and gives us the motivation to allocate low-address ranges unconditionally, even if the zero-based encoding is not possible.
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> Tests: tier1 (GHA), tier 2 on x64 linux

Still waiting for https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17343

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17340#issuecomment-1914202746