Currently when tail predicating loops, vpt blocks need to be created
with the vctp predicate in case we need to revert to non-tail predicated
form. This has the unfortunate side effect of severely hampering post-ra
scheduling at times as the instructions are already stuck in vpt blocks,
not allowed to be independently ordered.
This patch addresses that by just moving the creation of VPT blocks
later in the pipeline, after post-ra scheduling has been performed. This
allows more optimal scheduling post-ra before the vpt blocks are
created, leading to more optimal tail predicated loops.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113094
Currently isReallyTriviallyReMaterializableGeneric() implementation
prevents rematerialization on any virtual register use on the grounds
that is not a trivial rematerialization and that we do not want to
extend liveranges.
It appears that LRE logic does not attempt to extend a liverange of
a source register for rematerialization so that is not an issue.
That is checked in the LiveRangeEdit::allUsesAvailableAt().
The only non-trivial aspect of it is accounting for tied-defs which
normally represent a read-modify-write operation and not rematerializable.
The test for a tied-def situation already exists in the
/CodeGen/AMDGPU/remat-vop.mir,
test_no_remat_v_cvt_f32_i32_sdwa_dst_unused_preserve.
The change has affected ARM/Thumb, Mips, RISCV, and x86. For the targets
where I more or less understand the asm it seems to reduce spilling
(as expected) or be neutral. However, it needs a review by all targets'
specialists.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106408
This enables subreg liveness in the arm backend when MVE is present,
which allows the register allocator to detect when subregister are
alive/dead, compared to only acting on full registers. This can helps
produce better code on MVE with the way MQPR registers are made up of
SPR registers, but is especially helpful for MQQPR and MQQQQPR
registers, where there are very few "registers" available and being able
to split them up into subregs can help produce much better code.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D107642
Currently isReallyTriviallyReMaterializableGeneric() implementation
prevents rematerialization on any virtual register use on the grounds
that is not a trivial rematerialization and that we do not want to
extend liveranges.
It appears that LRE logic does not attempt to extend a liverange of
a source register for rematerialization so that is not an issue.
That is checked in the LiveRangeEdit::allUsesAvailableAt().
The only non-trivial aspect of it is accounting for tied-defs which
normally represent a read-modify-write operation and not rematerializable.
The test for a tied-def situation already exists in the
/CodeGen/AMDGPU/remat-vop.mir,
test_no_remat_v_cvt_f32_i32_sdwa_dst_unused_preserve.
The change has affected ARM/Thumb, Mips, RISCV, and x86. For the targets
where I more or less understand the asm it seems to reduce spilling
(as expected) or be neutral. However, it needs a review by all targets'
specialists.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106408
Register allocation may spill virtual registers to the stack, which can
increase alignment requirements of the stack frame. If the the function
did not require stack realignment before register allocation, the
registers required to do so may not be reserved/available. This results
in a stack frame that requires realignment but can not be realigned.
Instead, only increase the alignment of the stack if we are still able
to realign.
The register SpillAlignment will be ignored if we can't realign, and the
backend will be responsible for emitting the correct unaligned loads and
stores. This seems to be the assumed behaviour already, e.g.
ARMBaseInstrInfo::storeRegToStackSlot and X86InstrInfo::storeRegToStackSlot
are both `canRealignStack` aware.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103602
With t2DoLoopDec we can be left with some extra MOV's in the preheaders
of tail predicated loops. This removes them, in the same way we remove
other dead variables.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91857
Although this was something that I was hoping we would not have to do,
this patch makes t2DoLoopStartTP a terminator in order to keep it at the
end of it's block, so not allowing extra MVE instruction between it and
the end. With t2DoLoopStartTP's also starting tail predication regions,
it also marks them as having side effects. The t2DoLoopStart is still
not a terminator, giving it the extra scheduling freedom that can be
helpful, but now that we have a TP version they can be treated
differently.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91887
We currently have problems with the way that low overhead loops are
specified, with LR being spilled between the t2LoopDec and the t2LoopEnd
forcing the entire loop to be reverted late in the backend. As they will
eventually become a single instruction, this patch introduces a
t2LoopEndDec which is the combination of the two, combined before
registry allocation to make sure this does not fail.
Unfortunately this instruction is a terminator that produces a value
(and also branches - it only produces the value around the branching
edge). So this needs some adjustment to phi elimination and the register
allocator to make sure that we do not spill this LR def around the loop
(needing to put a spill after the terminator). We treat the loop very
carefully, making sure that there is nothing else like calls that would
break it's ability to use LR. For that, this adds a
isUnspillableTerminator to opt in the new behaviour.
There is a chance that this could cause problems, and so I have added an
escape option incase. But I have not seen any problems in the testing
that I've tried, and not reverting Low overhead loops is important for
our performance. If this does work then we can hopefully do the same for
t2WhileLoopStart and t2DoLoopStart instructions.
This patch also contains the code needed to convert or revert the
t2LoopEndDec in the backend (which just needs a subs; bne) and the code
pre-ra to create them.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91358
This introduces a new pseudo instruction, almost identical to a
t2DoLoopStart but taking 2 parameters - the original loop iteration
count needed for a low overhead loop, plus the VCTP element count needed
for a DLSTP instruction setting up a tail predicated loop. The idea is
that the instruction holds both values and the backend
ARMLowOverheadLoops pass can pick between the two, depending on whether
it creates a tail predicated loop or falls back to a low overhead loop.
To do that there needs to be something that converts a t2DoLoopStart to
a t2DoLoopStartTP, for which this patch repurposes the
MVEVPTOptimisationsPass as a "tail predication and vpt optimisation"
pass. The extra operand for the t2DoLoopStartTP is chosen based on the
operands of VCTP's in the loop, and the instruction is moved as late in
the block as possible to attempt to increase the likelihood of making
tail predicated loops.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90591
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
David Green