This patch updates LV to generate the runtime checks just after cost
modeling, to allow a more precise estimate of the actual cost of the
checks. This information will be used in future patches to generate
larger runtime checks in cases where the checks only make up a small
fraction of the expected scalar loop execution time.
The runtime checks are created up-front in a temporary block to allow better
estimating the cost and un-linked from the existing IR. After deciding to
vectorize, the checks are moved backed. If deciding not to vectorize, the
temporary block is completely removed.
This patch is similar in spirit to D71053, but explores a different
direction: instead of delaying the decision on whether to vectorize in
the presence of runtime checks it instead optimistically creates the
runtime checks early and discards them later if decided to not
vectorize. This has the advantage that the cost-modeling decisions
can be kept together and can be done up-front and thus preserving the
general code structure. I think delaying (part) of the decision to
vectorize would also make the VPlan migration a bit harder.
One potential drawback of this patch is that we speculatively
generate IR which we might have to clean up later. However it seems like
the code required to do so is quite manageable.
Reviewed By: lebedev.ri, ebrevnov
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75980
Previously the branch from the middle block to the scalar preheader & exit
was being set-up at the end of skeleton creation in completeLoopSkeleton.
Inserting SCEV or runtime checks may result in LCSSA phis being created,
if they are required. Adjusting branches afterwards may break those
PHIs.
To avoid this, we can instead create the branch from the middle block
to the exit after we created the middle block, so we have the final CFG
before potentially adjusting/creating PHIs.
This fixes a crash for the included test case. For the non-crashing
case, this is almost a NFC with respect to the generated code. The
only change is the order of the predecessors of the involved branch
targets.
Note an assertion was moved from LoopVersioning() to
LoopVersioning::versionLoop. Adjusting the branches means loop-simplify
form may be broken before constructing LoopVersioning. But LV only uses
LoopVersioning to annotate the loop instructions with !noalias metadata,
which does not require loop-simplify form.
This is a fix for an existing issue uncovered by D93317.
Florian Hahn