has settled without incident, removing the x86-specific and overly
strict 'isVectorSplat' routine in favor of generic and more powerful
splat detection.
The primary motivation and result of this is that the x86 backend can
now see through splats which contain undef elements. This is essential
if we are using a widening form of legalization and I've updated a test
case to also run in that mode as before this change the generated code
for the test case was completely scalarized.
This version of the patch much more carefully handles the undef lanes.
- We aren't overly conservative about them in the shift lowering
(where we will never use the splat itself).
- One place where the splat would have been re-used by the existing code
now explicitly constructs a new constant splat that will be safe.
- The broadcast lowering is much more reasonable with undefs by doing
a correct check of whether the splat is the only user of a loaded
value, checking that the splat actually crosses multiple lanes before
using a broadcast, and handling broadcasts of non-constant splats.
As a consequence of the last bullet, the weird usage of vpshufd instead
of vbroadcast is gone, and we actually can lower an AVX splat with
vbroadcastss where before we emitted a really strange pattern of
a vector load and a manual splat across the vector.
llvm-svn: 212602
lanes in vector splats.
The core problem here is that undef lanes can't *unilaterally* be
considered to contribute to splats. Their handling needs to be more
cautious. There is also a reported failure of the nightly testers
(thanks Tobias!) that may well stem from the same core issue. I'm going
to fix this theoretical issue, factor the APIs a bit better, and then
verify that I don't see anything bad with Tobias's reduction from the
test suite before recommitting.
Original commit message for r212324:
[x86] Generalize BuildVectorSDNode::getConstantSplatValue to work for
any constant, constant FP, or undef splat and to tolerate any undef
lanes in a splat, then replace all uses of isSplatVector in X86's
lowering with it.
This fixes issues where undef lanes in an otherwise splat vector would
prevent the splat logic from firing. It is a touch more awkward to use
this interface, but it is much more accurate. Suggestions for better
interface structuring welcome.
With this fix, the code generated with the widening legalization
strategy for widen_cast-4.ll is *dramatically* improved as the special
lowering strategies for a v16i8 SRA kick in even though the high lanes
are undef.
We also get a slightly different choice for broadcasting an aligned
memory location, and use vpshufd instead of vbroadcastss. This looks
like a minor win for pipelining and domain crossing, but a minor loss
for the number of micro-ops. I suspect its a wash, but folks can
easily tweak the lowering if they want.
llvm-svn: 212475
any constant, constant FP, or undef splat and to tolerate any undef
lanes in a splat, then replace all uses of isSplatVector in X86's
lowering with it.
This fixes issues where undef lanes in an otherwise splat vector would
prevent the splat logic from firing. It is a touch more awkward to use
this interface, but it is much more accurate. Suggestions for better
interface structuring welcome.
With this fix, the code generated with the widening legalization
strategy for widen_cast-4.ll is *dramatically* improved as the special
lowering strategies for a v16i8 SRA kick in even though the high lanes
are undef.
We also get a slightly different choice for broadcasting an aligned
memory location, and use vpshufd instead of vbroadcastss. This looks
like a minor win for pipelining and domain crossing, but a minor loss
for the number of micro-ops. I suspect its a wash, but folks can easily
tweak the lowering if they want.
llvm-svn: 212324
Chandler Carruth