[foreign-memaccess+abi] RFR: 8299730: Add trivial call linker option [v4]

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2023 15:38:12 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Add a trivial call linker option. This option acts as a hint to the runtime which indicates that a downcall is extremely short live (comparable to calling an empty function), and does not call back into Java.
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>> Some implementations (like ours) might use this information to apply additional optimizations that are only applicable to trivial functions (dropping thread state transitions).
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>> Note that the VM code diff looks kind of messy, but I essentially just put 3 `if` statements around the code that deals with the thread state transitions before and after the call. This also required moving the declarations of the `Label`s around though (so they are accessible from both ifs on the return path), which is probably messing up the diff view.
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> Jorn Vernee has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   add benchmarks

Marked as reviewed by mcimadamore (Committer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/pull/771