RFR: 8323497: On x64, use 32-bit immediate moves for narrow klass base if possible [v8]
Thomas Stuefe
stuefe at openjdk.org
Fri May 23 08:26:37 UTC 2025
> 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
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> 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 two additional commits since the last revision:
- Alexey feedback 2,5
- Alexey feedback 2
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17340/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17340/files/9ca73a4f..c5ba56da
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=17340&range=07
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=17340&range=06-07
Stats: 4 lines in 2 files changed: 1 ins; 1 del; 2 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17340.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/17340/head:pull/17340
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17340
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