This patch addresses the inherent big-endian bias in the lxvd2x,
lxvw4x, stxvd2x, and stxvw4x instructions. These instructions load
vector elements into registers left-to-right (with the first element
loaded into the high-order bits of the register), regardless of the
endian setting of the processor. However, these are the only
vector memory instructions that permit unaligned storage accesses, so
we want to use them for little-endian.
To make this work, a lxvd2x or lxvw4x is replaced with an lxvd2x
followed by an xxswapd, which swaps the doublewords. This works for
lxvw4x as well as lxvd2x, because for lxvw4x on an LE system the
vector elements are in LE order (right-to-left) within each
doubleword. (Thus after lxvw2x of a <4 x float> the elements will
appear as 1, 0, 3, 2. Following the swap, they will appear as 3, 2,
0, 1, as desired.) For stores, an stxvd2x or stxvw4x is replaced
with an stxvd2x preceded by an xxswapd.
Introduction of extra swap instructions provides correctness, but
obviously is not ideal from a performance perspective. Future patches
will address this with optimizations to remove most of the introduced
swaps, which have proven effective in other implementations.
The introduction of the swaps is performed during lowering of LOAD,
STORE, INTRINSIC_W_CHAIN, and INTRINSIC_VOID operations. The latter
are used to translate intrinsics that specify the VSX loads and stores
directly into equivalent sequences for little endian. Thus code that
uses vec_vsx_ld and vec_vsx_st does not have to be modified to be
ported from BE to LE.
We introduce new PPCISD opcodes for LXVD2X, STXVD2X, and XXSWAPD for
use during this lowering step. In PPCInstrVSX.td, we add new SDType
and SDNode definitions for these (PPClxvd2x, PPCstxvd2x, PPCxxswapd).
These are recognized during instruction selection and mapped to the
correct instructions.
Several tests that were written to use -mcpu=pwr7 or pwr8 are modified
to disable VSX on LE variants because code generation changes with
this and subsequent patches in this set. I chose to include all of
these in the first patch than try to rigorously sort out which tests
were broken by one or another of the patches. Sorry about that.
The new test vsx-ldst-builtin-le.ll, and the changes to vsx-ldst.ll,
are disabled until LE support is enabled because of breakages that
occur as noted in those tests. They are re-enabled in patch 4/4.
llvm-svn: 223783
Commits r213915 and r214718 fix recognition of shuffle masks for vmrg*
and vpku*um instructions for a little-endian target, by swapping the
input arguments. The vsldoi instruction requires similar treatment,
and also needs its shift count adjusted for little endian.
Reviewed by Ulrich Weigand.
This is a bug fix candidate for release 3.5 (and hopefully the last of
those for PowerPC).
llvm-svn: 214923
My original LE implementation of the vsldoi instruction, with its
altivec.h interfaces vec_sld and vec_vsldoi, produces incorrect
shufflevector operations in the LLVM IR. Correct code is generated
because the back end handles the incorrect shufflevector in a
consistent manner.
This patch and a companion patch for Clang correct this problem by
removing the fixup from altivec.h and the corresponding fixup from the
PowerPC back end. Several test cases are also modified to reflect the
now-correct LLVM IR.
llvm-svn: 214800
In commit r213915, Bill fixed little-endian usage of vmrgh* and vmrgl*
by swapping the input arguments. As it turns out, the exact same fix
is also required for the vpkuhum/vpkuwum patterns.
This fixes another regression in llvmpipe when vector support is
enabled.
Reviewed by Bill Schmidt.
llvm-svn: 214718
Because the PowerPC vmrgh* and vmrgl* instructions have a built-in
big-endian bias, it is necessary to swap their inputs in little-endian
mode when using them to implement a vector shuffle. This was
previously missed in the vector LE implementation.
There was already logic to distinguish between unary and "normal"
vmrg* vector shuffles, so this patch extends that logic to use a third
option: "swapped" vmrg* vector shuffles that are used for little
endian in place of the "normal" ones.
I've updated the vec-shuffle-le.ll test to check for the expected
register ordering on the generated instructions.
This bug was discovered when testing the LE and ELFv2 patches for
safety if they were backported to 3.4. A different vectorization
decision was made in 3.4 than on mainline trunk, and that exposed the
problem. I've verified this fix takes care of that issue.
llvm-svn: 213915
Various masks on shufflevector instructions are recognizable as
specific PowerPC instructions (vector pack, vector merge, etc.).
There is existing code in PPCISelLowering.cpp to recognize the correct
patterns for big endian code. The masks for these instructions are
different for little endian code due to the big-endian numbering
employed by these instructions. This patch adds the recognition code
for little endian.
I've added a new test case test/CodeGen/PowerPC/vec_shuffle_le.ll for
this. The existing recognizer test (vec_shuffle.ll) is unnecessarily
verbose and difficult to read, so I felt it was better to add a new
test rather than modify the old one.
llvm-svn: 210536
Bill Schmidt