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 is a reimplementation of the overflow checks for the elementcount,
i.e. the 2nd argument of intrinsic get.active.lane.mask. The element
count is lowered in each iteration of the tail-predicated loop, and
we must prove that this expression doesn't overflow.
Many thanks to Eli Friedman and Sam Parker for all their help with
this work.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88086
This adds additional checks for the original scalar loop tripcount value, i.e.
get.active.lane.mask second argument, and perform several sanity checks to see
if it is of the form that we expect similarly like we already do for the IV
which is the first argument of get.active.lane.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D86074
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.
We had support for runtime trip count values, but not constants, and this adds
supports for that.
And added a minor optimisation while I was add it: don't invoke Cleanup when
there's nothing to clean up.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D73198
David Green