> Hi,
> 
> Flat accesses prevent scalar replacement because they are mismatched 
> accesses. It is also generally not possible to look through them, because the 
> payload may contain an oop in the form of raw bits. As a result, this PR adds 
> `LoadFlatNode` and `StoreFlatNode`, which act as high-level abstractions for 
> atomic accesses on flat fields. When it is determined that there is no racing 
> access on the flat field (e.g. because the holder object does not escape), 
> these flat access nodes can be expanded into multiple accesses to each 
> flattened fields, otherwise, they will be expanded into a sequence of 
> inferring a payload and accessing memory with that payload.
> 
> I also fix an issue with deoptimization reallocation where we miss assigning 
> the null marker of elements in a nullable flat array.
> 
> Please take a look and leave your reviews, thanks a lot.

Quan Anh Mai has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge 
or a rebase. The pull request now contains eight commits:

 - Several fixes
 - fix gc barrier
 - Merge branch 'lworld' into flatfield
 - fix merge, assert GC barriers
 - Merge branch 'lworld' into flatfield
 - fix release build
 - small fix StoreFlatNode::size_of
 - add LoadFlatNode and StoreFlatNode

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Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1518/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=valhalla&pr=1518&range=03
  Stats: 989 lines in 17 files changed: 775 ins; 188 del; 26 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1518.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla.git pull/1518/head:pull/1518

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1518

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