RFR: 8323497: On x64, use 32-bit immediate moves for narrow klass base if possible [v6]

[Vladimir Kozlov]

On Thu, 22 May 2025 13:41:20 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. 
>> 
>> Before: mov uses 10 instruction bytes:
>> 
>> 
>>    35  ;; decode_klass_not_null
>>    36   0x00007f8b089e51c4:   movabs $0x82000000,%r11
>>    37   0x00007f8b089e51ce:   add    %r11,%r10
>> 
>> 
>> Now: mov uses 6 instruction bytes:
>> 
>> 
>>    35  ;; decode_klass_not_null
>>    36   0x00007fbe609e51c4:   mov    $0x82000000,%r11d
>>    37   0x00007fbe609e51ca:   add    %r11,%r10
>> 
>> 
>> Note that this optimization does not depend on zero-based addressing, and therefore we change class space reservation: we now always look in low-address regions first.
>> 
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>> Tests: tier1 (GHA), tier 2 on x64 linux
>
> Thomas Stuefe has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   fix COH

I need to run our testing.

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17340#pullrequestreview-2861590025