RFR: 8232782: Shenandoah: streamline post-LRB CAS barrier (aarch64)

[Andrew Haley]

On 26/06/2020 22:00, Roman Kennke wrote:
> I believe if you do what Andrew Haley suggested an use
> MacroAssembler::cmpxchg() it will do a CAS if supported by the
> platform, or ldxr/stxr if not. So either we simply use that, or maybe
> come up with two different implementations and select one or the other
> like MacroAssembler::cmpxchg() does? Not sure if there would be any
> advantage in the latter.

Please don't.

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