RFR: JDK-8331859 : [PPC64] Remove support for Power7 and older [v6]

Suchismith Roy sroy at openjdk.org
Tue Apr 29 16:42:52 UTC 2025


> JBS Issue: [JDK-8331859](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8331859) 
> Linux PPC64le requires Power8 since the beginning.
> AIX requires Power8 with the new OpenXL based build ([JDK-8307520](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8307520)). The old build has been removed in JDK 23 ([JDK-8327701](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8327701)).
> Linux PPC64 Big Endian is no longer officially supported (only kept alive for development, debugging and testing purposes).
> 
> The following checks for old processors are no longer needed:
> 8: VM_Version::has_lqarx()
> 7: VM_Version::has_popcntw()
> 6: VM_Version::has_cmpb()
> 5: VM_Version::has_popcntb()
> These ones and some more checks for old instructions are no longer needed. All code which is no longer reachable when removing them should also get removed.
> Checks like "PowerArchitecturePPC64 >= 8" (or older) can be removed.
> 
> Atomic::PlatformCmpxchg<1>::operator() can be simplified by using sub-word instructions (lharx, lbarx).
> 
> Temp registers can be removed from cmpxchgb and cmpxchgh.
> 
> Build flags "-mcpu=powerpc64 -mtune=power5" for Big Endian linux should get replaced by "-mcpu=power8 -mtune=power8" as already used for linux PPC64le.

Suchismith Roy has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:

 - trailing space
 - trailing space

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20262/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20262/files/6510d0e9..a95958a7

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=20262&range=05
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=20262&range=04-05

  Stats: 3 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 2 del; 1 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20262.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/20262/head:pull/20262

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20262


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