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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-8064625

ARM: C2 register pressure looks wrong

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    • arm
    • linux

      1) Problem with VecX

      For all vector types, we do the following on all platforms:
                lrg.set_reg_pressure(1);
      For 32-bit ARM, with a FLOATPRESSURE value of 30 and set_reg_pressure(1), we calculate 30 VecX vector registers,
      but the hardware actually supports 15 VecX vector registers (actually 16, but accounting for S14/S15/D7 that we reserve).

      2) Problem with RegD

      We also calculate 15 RegD instead of the correct 30 RegD.

      3) The above numbers assume that VM_Version::has_vfp3_32() returns true. If it returns false, the number of RegD,
      VecD, and VecX available in C2 are cut in half, but the number of RegF and VecS stay the same. A single value for
      FLOATPRESSURE and a static value for lrg.set_reg_pressure() makes it impossible to adjust for the
      has_vfp3_32() value at runtime.

      Rather than INTPRESSURE, FLOATPRESSURE, and platform-specific set_reg_pressure() values in shared code using
      ifdefs, it seems better to define an interface to allow better tuning of these values.

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            dlong Dean Long
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