`llvm-mca` relies on the predicates to be based on `MCSchedPredicate` in order
to resolve the scheduling for variant instructions. Otherwise, it aborts
the building of the instruction model early.
However, the scheduling model emitter in `TableGen` gives up too soon, unless
all processors use only such predicates.
In order to allow more processors to be used with `llvm-mca`, this patch
emits scheduling transitions if any processor uses these predicates. The
transition emitted for the processors using legacy predicates is the one
specified with `NoSchedPred`, which is based on `MCSchedPredicate`.
Preferably, `llvm-mca` should instead assume a reasonable default when a
variant transition is not based on `MCSchedPredicate` for a given processor.
This issue should be revisited in the future.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54648
llvm-svn: 347504
A new class named InstructionError has been added to Support.h in order to
improve the error reporting from class InstrBuilder.
The llvm-mca driver is responsible for handling InstructionError objects, and
printing them out to stderr.
The goal of this patch is to remove all the remaining error handling logic from
the library code.
In particular, this allows us to:
- Simplify the logic in InstrBuilder by removing a needless dependency from
MCInstrPrinter.
- Centralize all the error halding logic in a new function named 'runPipeline'
(see llvm-mca.cpp).
This is also a first step towards generalizing class InstrBuilder, so that in
future, we will be able to reuse its logic to also "lower" MachineInstr to
mca::Instruction objects.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53585
llvm-svn: 345129
Evandro Menezes