This will currently accept the old number of bytes syntax, and convert
it to a scalar. This should be removed in the near future (I think I
converted all of the tests already, but likely missed a few).
Not sure what the exact syntax and policy should be. We can continue
printing the number of bytes for non-generic instructions to avoid
test churn and only allow non-scalar types for generic instructions.
This will currently print the LLT in parentheses, but accept parsing
the existing integers and implicitly converting to scalar. The
parentheses are a bit ugly, but the parser logic seems unable to deal
without either parentheses or some keyword to indicate the start of a
type.
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
Iterate through the loop and check that the observable values
produced are the same whether tail predication happens or not.
We want to find out if the tail-predicated version of this loop will
produce the same values as the loop in its original form. For this to
be true, the newly inserted implicit predication must not change the
the (observable) results.
We're doing this because many instructions in the loop will not be
predicated and so the conversion from VPT predication to tail
predication can result in different values being produced, because of
falsely predicated lanes not being updated in the converted form.
A masked load, whether through VPT or tail predication, will write
zeros to any of the falsely predicated bytes. So, from the loads, we
know that the false lanes are zeroed and here we're trying to track
that those false lanes remain zero, or where they change, the
differences are masked away by their user(s).
All MVE loads and stores have to be predicated, so we know that any
load operands, or stored results are equivalent already. Other
explicitly predicated instructions will perform the same operation in
the original loop and the tail-predicated form too. Because of this,
we can insert loads, stores and other predicated instructions into
our KnownFalseZeros set and build from there.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75452
Matt Arsenault