a zero register.
Previously I tried this and saw LLVM unable to transform this to fold
with memory operands such as spill slot rematerialization. However, it
clearly works as shown in this patch. We turn these into `cmpb $0,
<mem>` when useful for folding a memory operand without issue. This form
has no disadvantage compared to `testb $-1, <mem>`. So overall, this is
likely no worse and may be slightly smaller in some cases due to the
`testb %reg, %reg` form.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45475
llvm-svn: 330269
across basic blocks in the limited cases where it is very straight
forward to do so.
This will also be useful for other places where we do some limited
EFLAGS propagation across CFG edges and need to handle copy rewrites
afterward. I think this is rapidly approaching the maximum we can and
should be doing here. Everything else begins to require either heroic
analysis to prove how to do PHI insertion manually, or somehow managing
arbitrary PHI-ing of EFLAGS with general PHI insertion. Neither of these
seem at all promising so if those cases come up, we'll almost certainly
need to rewrite the parts of LLVM that produce those patterns.
We do now require dominator trees in order to reliably diagnose patterns
that would require PHI nodes. This is a bit unfortunate but it seems
better than the completely mysterious crash we would get otherwise.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45673
llvm-svn: 330264
The key idea is to lower COPY nodes populating EFLAGS by scanning the
uses of EFLAGS and introducing dedicated code to preserve the necessary
state in a GPR. In the vast majority of cases, these uses are cmovCC and
jCC instructions. For such cases, we can very easily save and restore
the necessary information by simply inserting a setCC into a GPR where
the original flags are live, and then testing that GPR directly to feed
the cmov or conditional branch.
However, things are a bit more tricky if arithmetic is using the flags.
This patch handles the vast majority of cases that seem to come up in
practice: adc, adcx, adox, rcl, and rcr; all without taking advantage of
partially preserved EFLAGS as LLVM doesn't currently model that at all.
There are a large number of operations that techinaclly observe EFLAGS
currently but shouldn't in this case -- they typically are using DF.
Currently, they will not be handled by this approach. However, I have
never seen this issue come up in practice. It is already pretty rare to
have these patterns come up in practical code with LLVM. I had to resort
to writing MIR tests to cover most of the logic in this pass already.
I suspect even with its current amount of coverage of arithmetic users
of EFLAGS it will be a significant improvement over the current use of
pushf/popf. It will also produce substantially faster code in most of
the common patterns.
This patch also removes all of the old lowering for EFLAGS copies, and
the hack that forced us to use a frame pointer when EFLAGS copies were
found anywhere in a function so that the dynamic stack adjustment wasn't
a problem. None of this is needed as we now lower all of these copies
directly in MI and without require stack adjustments.
Lots of thanks to Reid who came up with several aspects of this
approach, and Craig who helped me work out a couple of things tripping
me up while working on this.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45146
llvm-svn: 329657
Chandler Carruth