After the original commit ([[ https://reviews.llvm.org/rL304088 | rL304088 ]]) was reverted, a discussion in llvm-dev was opened on 'how to accomplish this task'.
In the discussion we concluded that the best way to achieve our goal (which is to automate the folding tables and remove the manually maintained tables) is:
# Commit the tablegen backend disabled by default.
# Proceed with an incremental updating of the manual tables - while checking the validity of each added entry.
# Repeat previous step until we reach a state where the generated and the manual tables are identical. Then we can safely remove the manual tables and include the generated tables instead.
# Schedule periodical (1 week/2 weeks/1 month) runs of the pass:
- if changes appear (new entries):
- make sure the entries are legal
- If they are not, mark them as illegal to folding
- Commit the changes (if there are any).
CMake flag added for this purpose is "X86_GEN_FOLD_TABLES". Building with this flags will run the pass and emit the X86GenFoldTables.inc file under build/lib/Target/X86/ directory which is a good reference for any developer who wants to take part in the effort of completing the current folding tables.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D38028
llvm-svn: 315173
In testing, we've found yet another miscompile caused by the new tables.
And this one is even less clear how to fix (we could teach it to fold
a 16-bit load instead of the 32-bit load it wants, or block folding
entirely).
Also, the approach to excluding instructions seems increasingly to not
scale well.
I have left a more detailed analysis on the review log for the original
patch (https://reviews.llvm.org/D32684) along with suggested path
forward. I will land an additional test case that I wrote which covers
the code that was miscompiling (folding into the output of `pextrw`) in
a subsequent commit to keep this a pure revert.
For each commit reverted here, I've restricted the revert to the
non-test code touching the x86 fold table emission until the last commit
where I did revert the test updates. This means the *new* test cases
added for `insertps` and `xchg` remain untouched (and continue to pass).
Reverted commits:
r304540: [X86] Don't fold into memory operands into insertps in the ...
r304347: [TableGen] Adapt more places to getValueAsString now ...
r304163: [X86] Don't fold away the memory operand of an xchg.
r304123: Don't capture a temporary std::string in a StringRef.
r304122: Resubmit "[X86] Adding new LLVM TableGen backend that ..."
Original commit was in r304088, and after a string of fixes was reverted
previously in r304121 to fix build bots, and then re-landed in r304122.
llvm-svn: 304762
insertps behaves differently, the register form selects from an input
register based on the immediate operand while the memory form just loads
the given address. We have custom code to change the immediate in cases
where that's legal, so completely remove insertps from the generated
tables.
llvm-svn: 304540
xchg with a mem operand has different locking semantics. If we unfold it
into a xchg r,r we will loose the implicit lock. Likewise we never want
to fold a register xchg into a memory one as it would be a lot slower.
This triggers during LLVM selfhost.
llvm-svn: 304163
This was reverted due to buildbot breakages and I was not familiar
with this code to investigate it. But while trying to get a
useful backtrace for the author, it turns out the fix was very
obvious. Resubmitting this patch as is, and will submit the
fix in a followup so that the fix is not hidden in the larger
CL.
llvm-svn: 304122
This reverts commit 28cb1003507f287726f43c771024a1dc102c45fe as well
as all subsequent followups. llvm-tblgen currently segfaults with
this change, and it seems it has been broken on the bots all
day with no fixes in preparation. See, for example:
http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/clang-x86-windows-msvc2015/
llvm-svn: 304121
X86 backend holds huge tables in order to map between the register and memory forms of each instruction.
This TableGen Backend automatically generated all these tables with the appropriate flags for each entry.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32684
llvm-svn: 304088
Michael Zolotukhin