This changes the definition of t2DoLoopStart from
t2DoLoopStart rGPR
to
GPRlr = t2DoLoopStart rGPR
This will hopefully mean that low overhead loops are more tied together,
and we can more reliably generate loops without reverting or being at
the whims of the register allocator.
This is a fairly simple change in itself, but leads to a number of other
required alterations.
- The hardware loop pass, if UsePhi is set, now generates loops of the
form:
%start = llvm.start.loop.iterations(%N)
loop:
%p = phi [%start], [%dec]
%dec = llvm.loop.decrement.reg(%p, 1)
%c = icmp ne %dec, 0
br %c, loop, exit
- For this a new llvm.start.loop.iterations intrinsic was added, identical
to llvm.set.loop.iterations but produces a value as seen above, gluing
the loop together more through def-use chains.
- This new instrinsic conceptually produces the same output as input,
which is taught to SCEV so that the checks in MVETailPredication are not
affected.
- Some minor changes are needed to the ARMLowOverheadLoop pass, but it has
been left mostly as before. We should now more reliably be able to tell
that the t2DoLoopStart is correct without having to prove it, but
t2WhileLoopStart and tail-predicated loops will remain the same.
- And all the tests have been updated. There are a lot of them!
This patch on it's own might cause more trouble that it helps, with more
tail-predicated loops being reverted, but some additional patches can
hopefully improve upon that to get to something that is better overall.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D89881
This adapts tail-predication to the new semantics of get.active.lane.mask as
defined in D86147. This means that:
- we can remove the BTC + 1 overflow checks because now the loop tripcount is
passed in to the intrinsic,
- we can immediately use that value to setup a counter for the number of
elements processed by the loop and don't need to materialize BTC + 1.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D86303
This refactors option -disable-mve-tail-predication to take different arguments
so that we have 1 option to control tail-predication rather than several
different ones.
This is also a prep step for D82953, in which we want to reject reductions
unless that is requested with this option.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83133
To set up a tail-predicated loop, we need to to calculate the number of
elements processed by the loop. We can now use intrinsic
@llvm.get.active.lane.mask() to do this, which is emitted by the vectoriser in
D79100. This intrinsic generates a predicate for the masked loads/stores, and
consumes the Backedge Taken Count (BTC) as its second argument. We can now use
that to reconstruct the loop tripcount, instead of the IR pattern match
approach we were using before.
Many thanks to Eli Friedman and Sam Parker for all their help with this work.
This also adds overflow checks for the different, new expressions that we
create: the loop tripcount, and the sub expression that calculates the
remaining elements to be processed. For the latter, SCEV is not able to
calculate precise enough bounds, so we work around that at the moment, but is
not entirely correct yet, it's conservative. The overflow checks can be
overruled with a force flag, which is thus potentially unsafe (but not really
because the vectoriser is the only place where this intrinsic is emitted at the
moment). It's also good to mention that the tail-predication pass is not yet
enabled by default. We will follow up to see if we can implement these
overflow checks better, either by a change in SCEV or we may want revise the
definition of llvm.get.active.lane.mask.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79175
This is split off from D80316, slightly tightening the definition of overloaded
hardwareloop intrinsic llvm.loop.decrement.reg specifying that both operands
its result have the same type.
Summary:
D65884 added a set of Arm IR intrinsics for the MVE VCTP instruction,
to use in tail predication. But the 64-bit one doesn't work properly:
its predicate type is `<2 x i1>` / `v2i1`, which isn't a legal MVE
type (due to not having a full set of instructions that manipulate it
usefully). The test of `vctp64` in `basic-tail-pred.ll` goes through
`opt` fine, as the test expects, but if you then feed it to `llc` it
causes a type legality failure at isel time.
The usual workaround we've been using in the rest of the MVE
intrinsics family is to bodge `v2i1` into `v4i1`. So I've adjusted the
`vctp64` IR intrinsic to do that, and completely removed the code (and
test) that uses that intrinsic for 64-bit tail predication. That will
allow me to add isel rules (upcoming in D70485) that actually generate
the VCTP64 instruction.
Also renamed all four of these IR intrinsics so that they have `mve`
in the name, since its absence was confusing.
Reviewers: ostannard, MarkMurrayARM, dmgreen
Reviewed By: MarkMurrayARM
Subscribers: samparker, kristof.beyls, hiraditya, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70592
Remove the restriction, from the mve tail predication pass, that the
all masked vectors instructions need to be 128-bits. This allows us
to supported extending loads and truncating stores.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D69946
The VCTP instruction will calculate the predicate masked based upon
the number of elements that need to be processed. I had inserted the
sub before the vctp intrinsic and supplied it as the operand, but
this is incorrect as the phi should directly feed the vctp. The sub
is calculating the value for the next iteration.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67921
llvm-svn: 373188
The MVE and LOB extensions of Armv8.1m can be combined to enable
'tail predication' which removes the need for a scalar remainder
loop after vectorization. Lane predication is performed implicitly
via a system register. The effects of predication is described in
Section B5.6.3 of the Armv8.1-m Arch Reference Manual, the key points
being:
- For vector operations that perform reduction across the vector and
produce a scalar result, whether the value is accumulated or not.
- For non-load instructions, the predicate flags determine if the
destination register byte is updated with the new value or if the
previous value is preserved.
- For vector store instructions, whether the store occurs or not.
- For vector load instructions, whether the value that is loaded or
whether zeros are written to that element of the destination
register.
This patch implements a pass that takes a hardware loop, containing
masked vector instructions, and converts it something that resembles
an MVE tail predicated loop. Currently, if we had code generation,
we'd generate a loop in which the VCTP would generate the predicate
and VPST would then setup the value of VPR.PO. The loads and stores
would be placed in VPT blocks so this is not tail predication, but
normal VPT predication with the predicate based upon a element
counting induction variable. Further work needs to be done to finally
produce a true tail predicated loop.
Because only the loads and stores are predicated, in both the LLVM IR
and MIR level, we will restrict support to only lane-wise operations
(no horizontal reductions). We will perform a final check on MIR
during loop finalisation too.
Another restriction, specific to MVE, is that all the vector
instructions need operate on the same number of elements. This is
because predication is performed at the byte level and this is set
on entry to the loop, or by the VCTP instead.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65884
llvm-svn: 371179
David Green