This is different from the argument passing convention which puts the
first float argument in %f1.
With this patch, all returned floats are treated as if the 'inreg' flag
were set. This means multiple float return values get packed in %f0,
%f1, %f2, ...
Note that when returning a struct in registers, clang will set the
'inreg' flag on the return value, so that behavior is unchanged. This
also happens when returning a float _Complex.
llvm-svn: 199028
Also avoid locals evicting locals just because they want a cheaper register.
Problem: MI Sched knows exactly how many registers we have and assumes
they can be colored. In cases where we have large blocks, usually from
unrolled loops, greedy coloring fails. This is a source of
"regressions" from the MI Scheduler on x86. I noticed this issue on
x86 where we have long chains of two-address defs in the same live
range. It's easy to see this in matrix multiplication benchmarks like
IRSmk and even the unit test misched-matmul.ll.
A fundamental difference between the LLVM register allocator and
conventional graph coloring is that in our model a live range can't
discover its neighbors, it can only verify its neighbors. That's why
we initially went for greedy coloring and added eviction to deal with
the hard cases. However, for singly defined and two-address live
ranges, we can optimally color without visiting neighbors simply by
processing the live ranges in instruction order.
Other beneficial side effects:
It is much easier to understand and debug regalloc for large blocks
when the live ranges are allocated in order. Yes, global allocation is
still very confusing, but it's nice to be able to comprehend what
happened locally.
Heuristics could be added to bias register assignment based on
instruction locality (think late register pairing, banks...).
Intuituvely this will make some test cases that are on the threshold
of register pressure more stable.
llvm-svn: 187139
This requires v9 cmov instructions using the %xcc flags instead of the
%icc flags.
Still missing:
- Select floats on %xcc flags.
- Select i64 on %fcc flags.
llvm-svn: 178737
The same compare instruction is used for 32-bit and 64-bit compares. It
sets two different sets of flags: icc and xcc.
This patch adds a conditional branch instruction using the xcc flags for
64-bit compares.
llvm-svn: 178621
Jakob Stoklund Olesen