RFR: JDK-8331859 : [PPC64] Remove support for Power7 and older [v8]
Suchismith Roy
sroy at openjdk.org
Thu May 15 07:29:36 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 with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 44 commits:
- Merge branch 'openjdk:master' into power8
- change assembler files
- review
- trailing space
- trailing space
- newlines
- SupwerwordUSeVSX
- indent
- trailing space
- extra lines in c1_LIRA
- ... and 34 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/5e50a584...0ebf60c3
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Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20262/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=20262&range=07
Stats: 1646 lines in 25 files changed: 19 ins; 1392 del; 235 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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