Summary:
Shuffle lowering widens the element size of a shuffle if elements are contiguous. This is sometimes help because wider element types have more shuffle options. If the shuffle is one of the arguments to a vselect this shuffle widening can introduce a bitcast between the vselect and the shuffle. This will prevent isel from selecting a masked operation. If the shuffle can be written equally efficiently with a different element size to match the vselect type we should change the shuffle type to allow masking.
This patch does this conversion for all VALIGND/VALIGNQ sizes. It also supports turning 128-bit PALIGNR into VALIGND/VALIGNQ. This fixes the case shown in PR31018.
I plan to add support for more operations in future patches.
Reviewers: RKSimon, zvi, delena
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26902
llvm-svn: 287612
Many of these problems are because shuffle lowering widens element size and reduces element count when possible. This causes the shuffle to become separated from the select by a bitcast. Future patches will work to improve these cases by rewriting the shuffle back to a narrow element type if we think it can result in folding the mask.
llvm-svn: 287503
Craig Topper