RFR: JDK-8331859 : [PPC64] Remove support for Power7 and older
Suchismith Roy
sroy at openjdk.org
Tue Mar 18 08:15:24 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.
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Commit messages:
- multiple loads causing issues
- Merge branch 'master' into power8
- Merge branch 'master' into power8
- spaces
- aix changes
- adapt changes
- Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin' into power8
- Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin' into power8
- Merge branch 'master' into power8
- spaces and comments
- ... and 7 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/ac76d8d6...a40ad3b3
Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20262/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=20262&range=00
Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8331859
Stats: 404 lines in 9 files changed: 0 ins; 342 del; 62 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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