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
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 hints the operand of a t2DoLoopStart towards using LR, which can
help make it more likely to become t2DLS lr, lr. This makes it easier to
move if needed (as the input is the same as the output), or potentially
remove entirely.
The hint is added after others (from COPY's etc) which still take
precedence. It needed to find a place to add the hint, which currently
uses the post isel custom inserter.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D89883
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
Fix the ARM backend's analyzeBranch so it doesn't ignore predicated
return instructions, and make the MachineVerifier rule more strict.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40061
There were cases where a do-while loop would be converted to a while
loop before finding out that it would be unsafe to expand the SCEV in
this situation and then bailing out of hardware loop conversion.
This patch checks if it would be unsafe to expand the SCEV and if so stops converting the do-while into a while, allowing conversion to a hardware loop.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83953
David Green