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  2. JDK-8056124

Hotspot should use PICL interface to get cacheline size on SPARC

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    • sparc
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        Currently the cache line size on SPARC is hardcoded into VM:

         static intx prefetch_data_size() {
            return is_T4() && !is_T7() ? 32 : 64; // default prefetch block size on sparc
         }

         static bool is_T4() { return is_T_family(_features) && has_cbcond(); }
         static bool is_T7() { return is_T_family(_features) && has_sparc5_instr(); }

        Where is_T_family() relies on data from kstat library:

        } else if (strstr(impl, "SPARC-T") != NULL) {
          features |= T_family_m;

        Unfortunately in virtual machine kstat may not provide such information (JDK-8035283).

        We should use PICL (libpicl.so) interface to get (L2) cache line size on SPARC. I verified that Solaris 10u9, which is jdk7 supported OS, has libpicl.so.

          1. l2linesize.c
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              iveresov Igor Veresov
              kvn Vladimir Kozlov
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