Summary:
Previously, a extending load was represented at (G_*EXT (G_LOAD x)).
This had a few drawbacks:
* G_LOAD had to be legal for all sizes you could extend from, even if
registers didn't naturally hold those sizes.
* All sizes you could extend from had to be allocatable just in case the
extend went missing (e.g. by optimization).
* At minimum, G_*EXT and G_TRUNC had to be legal for these sizes. As we
improve optimization of extends and truncates, this legality requirement
would spread without considerable care w.r.t when certain combines were
permitted.
* The SelectionDAG importer required some ugly and fragile pattern
rewriting to translate patterns into this style.
This patch changes the representation to:
* (G_[SZ]EXTLOAD x)
* (G_LOAD x) any-extends when MMO.getSize() * 8 < ResultTy.getSizeInBits()
which resolves these issues by allowing targets to work entirely in their
native register sizes, and by having a more direct translation from
SelectionDAG patterns.
Each extending load can be lowered by the legalizer into separate extends
and loads, however a target that supports s1 will need the any-extending
load to extend to at least s8 since LLVM does not represent memory accesses
smaller than 8 bit. The legalizer can widenScalar G_LOAD into an
any-extending load but sign/zero-extending loads need help from something
else like a combiner pass. A follow-up patch that adds combiner helpers for
for this will follow.
The new representation requires that the MMO correctly reflect the memory
access so this has been corrected in a couple tests. I've also moved the
extending loads to their own tests since they are (mostly) separate opcodes
now. Additionally, the re-write appears to have invalidated two tests from
select-with-no-legality-check.mir since the matcher table no longer contains
loads that result in s1's and they aren't legal in AArch64 anymore.
Depends on D45540
Reviewers: ab, aditya_nandakumar, bogner, rtereshin, volkan, rovka, javed.absar
Reviewed By: rtereshin
Subscribers: javed.absar, llvm-commits, kristof.beyls
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45541
llvm-svn: 331601
Currently it's impossible to test InstructionSelect pass with MIR which
is considered illegal by the Legalizer in Assert builds. In early stages
of porting an existing backend from SelectionDAG ISel to GlobalISel,
however, we would have very basic CallLowering, Legalizer, and
RegBankSelect implementations, but rather functional Instruction Select
with quite a few patterns selectable due to the semi-automatic porting
process borrowing them from SelectionDAG ISel.
As we are trying to define legality as a property of being selectable by
the instruction selector, it would be nice to be able to easily check
what the selector can do in its current state w/o the legality check
provided by the Legalizer getting in the way.
It also seems beneficial to have a regression testing set up that would
not allow the selector to silently regress in its support of the MIR not
supported yet by the previous passes in the GlobalISel pipeline.
This commit adds -disable-gisel-legality-check command line option to
llc that disables those legality checks in RegBankSelect and
InstructionSelect passes.
It also adds quite a few MIR test cases for AArch64's Instruction
Selector. Every one of them would fail on the legality check at the
moment, but will select just fine if the check is disabled. Every test
MachineFunction is intended to exercise a specific selection rule and
that rule only, encoded in the MachineFunction's name by the rule's
number, ID, and index of its GIM_Try opcode in TableGen'erated
MatchTable (-optimize-match-table=false).
Reviewers: ab, dsanders, qcolombet, rovka
Reviewed By: bogner
Subscribers: kristof.beyls, volkan, aditya_nandakumar, aemerson,
rengolin, t.p.northover, javed.absar, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42886
llvm-svn: 326396
Daniel Sanders