RFR: 8368722: RISC-V: Several vector load/store tests fail due to lack of support for misaligned vector access [v3]

[Hamlin Li]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 09:04:35 GMT, Dingli Zhang <dzhang at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi,
>> Can you help to review this patch? Thanks!
>> 
>> In `*VectorLoadStoreTests.java`,  `loadMemorySegmentMaskIOOBE` and `storeMemorySegmentMaskIOOBE` may fail because `int index = fi.apply((int) a.byteSize())` can generate random indices that result in misaligned addresses, leading to SIGBUS on hardware that disallows misaligned vector accesses.
>> 
>> Some RISC-V hardware supports fast misaligned scalar accesses but not vector ones, which causes SIGBUS when executing these tests with misaligned vector memory operations.
>> 
>> After [JDK-8368732](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8368732), we can use `AlignVector` to check the result on platforms with or without fast misaligned vector accesses. When misaligned vector accesses are not supported, it is possible to completely disable the VM’s VectorAPI support by setting `EnableVectorSupport`, without affecting auto-vectorization.
>> 
>> In addition, after running fastdebug tests including `jdk_vector, jdk_vector_sanity, hotspot_vector_1, hotspot_vector_2, compiler/vectorapi, compiler/vectorization`, we found that some IR-related tests require EnableVectorSupport. Therefore, we added `@requires vm.opt.EnableVectorSupport == true` to skip these tests.
>> 
>> We can check the status of EnableVectorSupport as follows:
>> 
>> On k1
>> $ java --add-modules=jdk.incubator.vector -Xlog:compilation -version
>> [0.737s][info][compilation] EnableVectorSupport=false
>> [0.738s][info][compilation] EnableVectorReboxing=false
>> [0.738s][info][compilation] EnableVectorAggressiveReboxing=false
>> 
>> On qemu
>> $ java --add-modules=jdk.incubator.vector -Xlog:compilation -version
>> [3.048s][info][compilation] EnableVectorSupport=true
>> [3.050s][info][compilation] EnableVectorReboxing=true
>> [3.051s][info][compilation] EnableVectorAggressiveReboxing=true
>> 
>> 
>> ### Test (fastdebug)
>> - [x] Run jdk_vector, jdk_vector_sanity, hotspot_vector_1, hotspot_vector_2, compiler/vectorapi, compiler/vectorization on k1
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> Dingli Zhang has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains three additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into JDK-8368722-20251009
>  - Add supports_misaligned_vector_accesses
>  - 8368722: RISC-V: Several vector load/store tests fail without support for misaligned vector access

Please the title of pr/bug by removing `RISC-V` prefix, if you want to get more attention, as you're changing the common code, and it could potentially impact other platforms.

src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/vm_version_aarch64.hpp line 202:

> 200:   constexpr static bool supports_secondary_supers_table() { return true; }
> 201: 
> 202:   constexpr static bool supports_misaligned_vector_accesses() { return true; }

Does this `supports_misaligned_vector_accesses` equal to `AlignVector` option?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27506#issuecomment-3387096159
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27506#discussion_r2417667384