The MachineOutliner for AArch64 transforms indirect calls into indirect
tail calls, replacing the call with the TCRETURNri pseudo-instruction.
This pseudo lowers to a BR, but has the isCall and isReturn flags set.
The problem is that TCRETURNri takes a tcGPR64 as the register argument,
to prevent indiret tail-calls from using caller-saved registers. The
indirect calls transformed by the outliner could use caller-saved
registers. This is fine, because the outliner ensures that the register
is available at all call sites. However, this causes a verifier failure
when the register is not in tcGPR64. The fix is to add a new
pseudo-instruction like TCRETURNri, but which accepts any GPR.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52829
llvm-svn: 343959
When we're outlining a sequence that ends in a call, we can save up to
three instructions in the outlined function by turning the call into
a tail-call. I refer to this as thunk outlining because the resulting
outlined function looks like a thunk; suggestions welcome for a better
name.
In addition to making the outlined function shorter, thunk outlining
allows outlining calls which would otherwise be illegal to outline:
we don't need to save/restore LR, so we don't need to prove anything
about the stack access patterns of the callee.
To make this work effectively, I also added
MachineOutlinerInstrType::LegalTerminator to the generic MachineOutliner
code; this allows treating an arbitrary instruction as a terminator in
the suffix tree.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47173
llvm-svn: 333015
Oliver Stannard