> Hello,
> 
> This is (yet another) cleanup to remove redundant memory barriers after the 
> new ValuePayload abstraction API in the runtime. The ValuePayload API's 
> (including FlatValuePayload::read) does the necessary calls to order stores 
> of the copy before the oop is published (OrderAccess::storestore), making the 
> platform-specific memory barriers redundant.
> 
> I don't have hardware access to RISCV or PPC, but looking at the runtime 
> implementations of OrderAccess::storestore, they achieve the same thing as 
> the platform-specific memory barriers that I suggest we remove in this PR. 
> GHA will show that this compiles at least.
> 
> `membar(Assembler::StoreStore | Assembler::LoadLoad);` and 
> `OrderAccess::storestore()` both boil down to `lwsync`.
> 
> The C1 call to `load_flat_array` already omits the memory barrier, so we 
> don't need to remove it here.
> 
> Testing:
> * Oracle's tier1-3 linux-aarch64
> * GHA
> 
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Joel Sikström has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
commit since the last revision:

  Add twi_0 + isync after read_flat_field in templateTable_ppc_64.cpp
  
  Co-authored-by: Martin Doerr <[email protected]>

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2581/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2581/files/667796ce..0186aa78

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=valhalla&pr=2581&range=01
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=valhalla&pr=2581&range=00-01

  Stats: 2 lines in 1 file changed: 2 ins; 0 del; 0 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2581.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla.git pull/2581/head:pull/2581

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2581

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