There are cases of AVX-512 instructions that have two possible encodings. This is the case with instructions that use vector registers with low indexes of 0 - 15 and do not use the zmm registers or the mask k registers.
The EVEX encoding prefix requires 4 bytes whereas the VEX prefix can take only up to 3 bytes. Consequently, using the VEX encoding for these instructions results in a code size reduction of ~2 bytes even though it is compiled with the AVX-512 features enabled.
Reviewers: Craig Topper, Zvi Rackoover, Elena Demikhovsky
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27901
llvm-svn: 290663
An identity COPY like this:
%AL = COPY %AL, %EAX<imp-def>
has no semantic effect, but encodes liveness information: Further users
of %EAX only depend on this instruction even though it does not define
the full register.
Replace the COPY with a KILL instruction in those cases to maintain this
liveness information. (This reverts a small part of r238588 but this
time adds a comment explaining why a KILL instruction is useful).
llvm-svn: 274952
This patch uses PSHUFB to lower vector CTLZ and avoid (slower) scalarizations.
The leading zero count of each 4-bit nibble of the vector is determined by using a PSHUFB lookup. Pairs of results are then repeatedly combined up to the original element width.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20016
llvm-svn: 269646
If all a BUILD_VECTOR's source elements are the same bit (AND/XOR/OR) operation type and each has one constant operand, lower to a pair of BUILD_VECTOR and just apply the bit operation to the vectors.
The constant operands will form a constant vector meaning that we still only have a single BUILD_VECTOR to lower and we will have replaced all the scalarized operations with a single SSE equivalent.
Its not in our interest to start make a general purpose vectorizer from this, but I'm seeing enough of these scalar bit operations from the later legalization/scalarization stages to support them at least.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18492
llvm-svn: 264666
autogenerated.
Also update existing test cases which appear to be generated by it and
weren't modified (other than addition of the header) by rerunning it.
llvm-svn: 253917
Gadi Haber