[master] RFR: 8300573: [Lilliput] Properly set ZF on anon-check path; avoid some conditional branches
Aleksey Shipilev
shade at openjdk.org
Fri Jan 20 16:04:44 UTC 2023
On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:11:02 GMT, Roman Kennke <rkennke at openjdk.org> wrote:
> In AArch64's fast_unlock(), we need to check if the monitor owner is ANONYMOUS (only with Lilliput/fast-locking), and if so, call the runtime to fix this before exiting the monitor. I tried to be smart and used tbnz there, but it turns out that tbnz does *not* set the zero flag, but we do need the ZF set correctly on exit of fast_unlock, so that C2 generated code would actually call the slow path. Therefore we need to use the longer tst/br instructions instead.
>
> The change also removes some conditional branches.
>
> All of the changes have already been integrated into the upstream proposed PR: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/10907/
>
> Testing:
> - [x] tier1
> - [x] tier2
Uff. `cont` and `count` look cunningly similar. Anyway!
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Marked as reviewed by shade (Committer).
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/lilliput/pull/63
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