D77635 added support to recognise primary induction variables for counting-down
loops. This allows us to fold the scalar tail loop into the main vector body,
which we need for MVE tail-predication. This adds some ARM tail-folding test
cases that we want to support.
This test was extracted from D76838, which implemented a different approach to
reverse and thus find a primary induction variable.
This addresses a vectorisation regression for tail-folded loops that are
counting down, e.g. loops as simple as this:
void foo(char *A, char *B, char *C, uint32_t N) {
while (N > 0) {
*C++ = *A++ + *B++;
N--;
}
}
These are loops that can be vectorised, but when tail-folding is requested, it
can't find a primary induction variable which we do need for predicating the
loop. As a result, the loop isn't vectorised at all, which it is able to do
when tail-folding is not attempted. So, this adds a check for the primary
induction variable where we decide how to lower the scalar epilogue. I.e., when
there isn't a primary induction variable, a scalar epilogue loop is allowed
(i.e. don't request tail-folding) so that vectorisation could still be
triggered.
Having this check for the primary induction variable make sense anyway, and in
addition, in a follow-up of this I will look into discovering earlier the
primary induction variable for counting down loops, so that this can also be
tail-folded.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D72324
Sjoerd Meijer