This patch adds support for the CRJ and CGRJ instructions. Support for
the immediate forms will be a separate patch.
The architecture has a large number of comparison instructions. I think
it's generally better to concentrate on using the "best" comparison
instruction first and foremost, then only use something like CRJ if
CR really was the natual choice of comparison instruction. The patch
therefore opportunistically converts separate CR and BRC instructions
into a single CRJ while emitting instructions in ISelLowering.
llvm-svn: 182764
The original version of the pass could underestimate the length of a backward
branch in cases like:
alignment to N bytes or more
...
relaxable branch A
...
foo: (aligned to M<N bytes)
...
bar: (aligned to N bytes)
...
relaxable branch B to foo
We don't add any misalignment gap for "bar" because N bytes of alignment
had already been reached earlier in the function. In this case, assuming
that A is relaxed can push "foo" closer to "bar", and make B appear to be
in range. Similar problems can occur for forward branches.
I don't think it's possible to create blocks with mixed alignments as
things stand, not least because we haven't yet defined getPrefLoopAlignment()
for SystemZ (that would need benchmarking). So I don't think we can test
this yet.
Thanks to Rafael Espíndola for spotting the bug.
llvm-svn: 182460
Before this change, the SystemZ backend would use BRCL for all branches
and only consider shortening them to BRC when generating an object file.
E.g. a branch on equal would use the JGE alias of BRCL in assembly output,
but might be shortened to the JE alias of BRC in ELF output. This was
a useful first step, but it had two problems:
(1) The z assembler isn't traditionally supposed to perform branch shortening
or branch relaxation. We followed this rule by not relaxing branches
in assembler input, but that meant that generating assembly code and
then assembling it would not produce the same result as going directly
to object code; the former would give long branches everywhere, whereas
the latter would use short branches where possible.
(2) Other useful branches, like COMPARE AND BRANCH, do not have long forms.
We would need to do something else before supporting them.
(Although COMPARE AND BRANCH does not change the condition codes,
the plan is to model COMPARE AND BRANCH as a CC-clobbering instruction
during codegen, so that we can safely lower it to a separate compare
and long branch where necessary. This is not a valid transformation
for the assembler proper to make.)
This patch therefore moves branch relaxation to a pre-emit pass.
For now, calls are still shortened from BRASL to BRAS by the assembler,
although this too is not really the traditional behaviour.
The first test takes about 1.5s to run, and there are likely to be
more tests in this vein once further branch types are added. The feeling
on IRC was that 1.5s is a bit much for a single test, so I've restricted
it to SystemZ hosts for now.
The patch exposes (and fixes) some typos in the main CodeGen/SystemZ tests.
A later patch will remove the {{g}}s from that directory.
llvm-svn: 182274
Craig Topper