Add '-k 1' to 'sort -b' calls in SimpleLoopUnswitch tests, as required
for sort implementation on NetBSD. The '-b' modifier is ineffective
if specified without any key. Per the manpage:
Note that the -b option has no effect unless key fields are specified.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55168
llvm-svn: 348097
We need to control exponential behavior of loop-unswitch so we do not get
run-away compilation.
Suggested solution is to introduce a multiplier for an unswitch cost that
makes cost prohibitive as soon as there are too many candidates and too
many sibling loops (meaning we have already started duplicating loops
by unswitching).
It does solve the currently known problem with compile-time degradation
(PR 39544).
Tests are built on top of a recently implemented CHECK-COUNT-<num>
FileCheck directives.
Reviewed By: chandlerc, mkazantsev
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54223
llvm-svn: 347097
When partial unswitch operates on multiple conditions at once, .e.g:
if (Cond1 || Cond2 || NonInv) ...
it should infer (and replace) values for individual conditions only on one
side of unswitch and not another.
More precisely only these derivations hold true:
(Cond1 || Cond2) == false => Cond1 == Cond2 == false
(Cond1 && Cond2) == true => Cond1 == Cond2 == true
By the way we organize unswitching it means only replacing on "continue" blocks
and never on "unswitched" ones. Since trivial unswitch does not have "unswitched"
blocks it does not have this problem.
Fixes PR 39568.
Reviewers: chandlerc, asbirlea
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54211
llvm-svn: 346350
This patch adds support of `llvm.experimental.guard` intrinsics to non-trivial
simple loop unswitching. These intrinsics represent implicit control flow which
has pretty much the same semantics as usual conditional branches. The
algorithm of dealing with them is following:
- Consider guards as unswitching candidates;
- If a guard is considered the best candidate, turn it into a branch;
- Apply normal unswitching algorithm on this branch.
The patch has no compile time effect on code that does not contain any guards.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53744
Reviewed By: chandlerc
llvm-svn: 345387
Recent change to deleteDeadBlocksFromLoop was not enough to
fix all the problems related to dead blocks after nontrivial
unswitching of switches.
We need to delete all the dead blocks that were created during
unswitching, otherwise we will keep having problems with phi's
or dead blocks.
This change removes all the dead blocks that are reachable from the loop,
not trying to track whether these blocks are newly created by unswitching
or not. While not completely correct, we are unlikely to get loose but
reachable dead blocks that do not belong to our loop nest.
It does fix all the failures currently known, in particular PR38778.
Reviewed By: asbirlea
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D51519
llvm-svn: 341398
Summary:
Assert from PR38737 happens on the dead block inside the parent loop
after unswitching nontrivial switch in the inner loop.
deleteDeadBlocksFromLoop now takes extra care to detect/remove dead
blocks in all the parent loops in addition to the blocks from original
loop being unswitched.
Reviewers: asbirlea, chandlerc
Reviewed By: asbirlea
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D51415
llvm-svn: 340955
switch unswitching.
The core problem was that the way we handled unswitching trivial exit
edges through the default successor of a switch. For some reason
I thought the right way to do this was to add a block containing
unreachable and point the default successor at this block. In
retrospect, this has an amazing number of problems.
The first issue is the one that this pass has always worked around -- we
have to *detect* such edges and avoid unswitching them again. This
seemed pretty easy really. You juts look for an edge to a block
containing unreachable. However, this pattern is woefully unsound. So
many things can break it. The amazing thing is that I found a test case
where *simple-loop-unswitch itself* breaks this! When we do
a *non-trivial* unswitch of a switch we will end up splitting this exit
edge. The result will be a default successor that is an exit and
terminates in ... a perfectly normal branch. So the first test case that
I started trying to fix is added to the nontrivial test cases. This is
a ridiculous example that did just amazing things previously. With just
unswitch, it would create 10+ copies of this stuff stamped out. But if
you combine it *just right* with a bunch of other passes (like
simplify-cfg, loop rotate, and some LICM) you can get it to do this
infinitely. Or at least, I never got it to finish. =[
This, in turn, uncovered another related issue. When we are manipulating
these switches after doing a trivial unswitch we never correctly updated
PHI nodes to reflect our edits. As soon as I started changing how these
edges were managed, it became obvious there were more issues that
I couldn't realistically leave unaddressed, so I wrote more test cases
around PHI updates here and ensured all of that works now.
And this, in turn, required some adjustment to how we collect and manage
the exit successor when it is the default successor. That showed a clear
bug where we failed to include it in our search for the outer-most loop
reached by an unswitched exit edge. This was actually already tested and
the test case didn't work. I (wrongly) thought that was due to SCEV
failing to analyze the switch. In fact, it was just a simple bug in the
code that skipped the default successor. While changing this, I handled
it correctly and have updated the test to reflect that we now get
precise SCEV analysis of trip counts for the outer loop in one of these
cases.
llvm-svn: 336646
r335553 with the non-trivial unswitching of switches.
The code correctly updated most aspects of the CFG and analyses, but
missed some crucial aspects:
1) When multiple cases have the same successor, we unswitch that
a single time and replace the switch with a direct branch. The CFG
here is correct, but the target of this direct branch may have had
a PHI node with multiple entries in it.
2) When we still have to clone a successor of the switch into an
unswitched copy of the loop, we'll delete potentially multiple edges
entering this successor, not just one.
3) We also have to delete multiple edges entering the successors in the
original loop when they have to be retained.
4) When the "retained successor" *also* occurs as a case successor, we
just assert failed everywhere. This doesn't happen very easily
because its always valid to simply drop the case -- the retained
successor for switches is always the default successor. However, it
is likely possible through some contrivance of different loop passes,
unrolling, and simplifying for this to occur in practice and
certainly there is nothing "invalid" about the IR so this pass needs
to handle it.
5) In the case of #4, we also will replace these multiple edges with
a direct branch much like in #1 and need to collapse the entries in
any PHI nodes to a single enrty.
All of this stems from the delightful fact that the same successor can
show up in multiple parts of the switch terminator, and each of these
are considered a distinct edge for the purpose of PHI nodes (and
iterating the successors and predecessors) but not for unswitching
itself, the dominator tree, or many other things. For the record,
I intensely dislike this "feature" of the IR in large part because of
the complexity it causes in passes like this. We already have a ton of
logic building sets and handling duplicates, and we just had to add
a bunch more.
I've added a complex test case that covers all five of the above failure
modes. I've also added a variation on it where #4 and #5 occur in loop
exit, adding fun where we have an LCSSA PHI node with "multiple entries"
despite have dedicated exits. There were no additional issues found by
this, but it seems a useful corner case to cover with testing.
One thing that working on all of this code has made painfully clear for
me as well is how amazingly inefficient our PHI node representation is
(in terms of the in-memory data structures and the APIs used to update
them). This code has truly marvelous complexity bounds because every
time we remove an entry from a PHI node we do a linear scan to find it
and then a linear update to the data structure to remove it. We could in
theory batch all of the PHI node updates into a single linear walk of
the operands making this much more efficient, but the APIs fight hard
against this and the fact that we have to handle duplicates in the
peculiar manner we do (removing all but one in some cases) makes even
implementing that very tedious and annoying. Anyways, none of this is
new here or specific to loop unswitching. All code in LLVM that updates
PHI node operands suffers from these problems.
llvm-svn: 336536
after trivial unswitching.
This PR illustrates that a fundamental analysis update was not performed
with the new loop unswitch. This update is also somewhat fundamental to
the core idea of the new loop unswitch -- we actually *update* the CFG
based on the unswitching. In order to do that, we need to update the
loop nest in addition to the domtree.
For some reason, when writing trivial unswitching, I thought that the
loop nest structure cannot be changed by the transformation. But the PR
helps illustrate that it clearly can. I've expanded this to a number of
different test cases that try to cover the different cases of this. When
we unswitch, we move an exit edge of a loop out of the loop. If this
exit edge changes which loop reached by an exit is the innermost loop,
it changes the parent of the loop. Essentially, this transformation may
hoist the inner loop up the nest. I've added the simple logic to handle
this reliably in the trivial unswitching case. This just requires
updating LoopInfo and rebuilding LCSSA on the impacted loops. In the
trivial case, we don't even need to handle dedicated exits because we're
only hoisting the one loop and we just split its preheader.
I've also ported all of these tests to non-trivial unswitching and
verified that the logic already there correctly handles the loop nest
updates necessary.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D48851
llvm-svn: 336477
unswitching loops.
Original patch trying to address this was sent in D47624, but that
didn't quite handle things correctly. There are two key principles used
to select whether and how to invalidate SCEV-cached information about
loops:
1) We must invalidate any info SCEV has cached before unswitching as we
may change (or destroy) the loop structure by the act of unswitching,
and make it hard to recover everything we want to invalidate within
SCEV.
2) We need to invalidate all of the loops whose CFGs are mutated by the
unswitching. Notably, this isn't the *entire* loop nest, this is
every loop contained by the outermost loop reached by an exit block
relevant to the unswitch.
And we need to do this even when doing trivial unswitching.
I've added more focused tests that directly check that SCEV starts off
with imprecise information and after unswitching (and simplifying
instructions) re-querying SCEV will produce precise information. These
tests also specifically work to check that an *outer* loop's information
becomes precise.
However, the testing here is still a bit imperfect. Crafting test cases
that reliably fail to be analyzed by SCEV before unswitching and succeed
afterward proved ... very, very hard. It took me several hours and
careful work to build these, and I'm not optimistic about necessarily
coming up with more to cover more elaborate possibilities. Fortunately,
the code pattern we are testing here in the pass is really
straightforward and reliable.
Thanks to Max Kazantsev for the initial work on this as well as the
review, and to Hal Finkel for helping me talk through approaches to test
this stuff even if it didn't come to much.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47624
llvm-svn: 336183
unswitching of switches.
This works much like trivial unswitching of switches in that it reliably
moves the switch out of the loop. Here we potentially clone the entire
loop into each successor of the switch and re-point the cases at these
clones.
Due to the complexity of actually doing nontrivial unswitching, this
patch doesn't create a dedicated routine for handling switches -- it
would duplicate far too much code. Instead, it generalizes the existing
routine to handle both branches and switches as it largely reduces to
looping in a few places instead of doing something once. This actually
improves the results in some cases with branches due to being much more
careful about how dead regions of code are managed. With branches,
because exactly one clone is created and there are exactly two edges
considered, somewhat sloppy handling of the dead regions of code was
sufficient in most cases. But with switches, there are much more
complicated patterns of dead code and so I've had to move to a more
robust model generally. We still do as much pruning of the dead code
early as possible because that allows us to avoid even cloning the code.
This also surfaced another problem with nontrivial unswitching before
which is that we weren't as precise in reconstructing loops as we could
have been. This seems to have been mostly harmless, but resulted in
pointless LCSSA PHI nodes and other unnecessary cruft. With switches, we
have to get this *right*, and everything benefits from it.
While the testing may seem a bit light here because we only have two
real cases with actual switches, they do a surprisingly good job of
exercising numerous edge cases. Also, because we share the logic with
branches, most of the changes in this patch are reasonably well covered
by existing tests.
The new unswitch now has all of the same fundamental power as the old
one with the exception of the single unsound case of *partial* switch
unswitching -- that really is just loop specialization and not
unswitching at all. It doesn't fit into the canonicalization model in
any way. We can add a loop specialization pass that runs late based on
profile data if important test cases ever come up here.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47683
llvm-svn: 335553
clear out deleted loops from the current queue beyond just the current
loop.
This is important because SimpleLoopUnswitch will now enqueue the same
loop to be re-processed. When it does this with the legacy PM, we don't
have a way of canceling the rest of the pipeline and so we can end up
deleting the loop before we reprocess it. =/
This change also makes it easy to support deleting other loops in the
queue to process, although I don't have any use cases for that.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D48470
llvm-svn: 335317
conditions feeding a chain of `and`s or `or`s for a branch.
Much like with full non-trivial unswitching, we rely on the pass manager
to handle iterating until all of the profitable unswitches have been
done. This is to allow other more profitable unswitches to fire on any
of the cloned, simpler versions of the loop if viable.
Threading the partial unswiching through the non-trivial unswitching
logic motivated some minor refactorings. If those are too disruptive to
make it reasonable to review this patch, I can separate them out, but
it'll be somewhat timeconsuming so I wanted to send it for initial
review as-is. Feel free to tell me whether it warrants pulling apart.
I've tried to re-use (and factor out) logic form the partial trivial
unswitching, but not as much could be shared as I had haped. Still, this
wasn't as bad as I naively expected.
Some basic testing is added, but I probably need more. Suggestions for
things you'd like to see tested more than welcome. One thing I'd like to
do is add some testing that when we schedule this with loop-instsimplify
it effectively cleans up the cruft created.
Last but not least, this uncovered a bug that has been in loop cloning
the entire time for non-trivial unswitching. Specifically, we didn't
correctly add the outer-most cloned loop to the list of cloned loops.
This meant that LCSSA wouldn't be updated for it hypothetically, and
more significantly that we would never visit it in the loop pass
manager. I noticed this while checking loop-instsimplify by hand. I'll
try to separate this bugfix out into its own patch with a more focused
test. But it is just one line, so shouldn't significantly confuse the
review here.
After this patch, the only missing "feature" in this unswitch I'm aware
of us non-trivial unswitching of switches. I'll try implementing *full*
non-trivial unswitching of switches (which is at least a sound thing to
implement), but *partial* non-trivial unswitching of switches is
something I don't see any sound and principled way to implement. I also
have no interesting test cases for the latter, so I'm not really
worried. The rest of the things that need to be ported are bug-fixes and
more narrow / targeted support for specific issues.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47522
llvm-svn: 335203
Summary:
Two utils methods have essentially the same functionality. This is an attempt to merge them into one.
1. lib/Transforms/Utils/Local.cpp : MergeBasicBlockIntoOnlyPred
2. lib/Transforms/Utils/BasicBlockUtils.cpp : MergeBlockIntoPredecessor
Prior to the patch:
1. MergeBasicBlockIntoOnlyPred
Updates either DomTree or DeferredDominance
Moves all instructions from Pred to BB, deletes Pred
Asserts BB has single predecessor
If address was taken, replace the block address with constant 1 (?)
2. MergeBlockIntoPredecessor
Updates DomTree, LoopInfo and MemoryDependenceResults
Moves all instruction from BB to Pred, deletes BB
Returns if doesn't have a single predecessor
Returns if BB's address was taken
After the patch:
Method 2. MergeBlockIntoPredecessor is attempting to become the new default:
Updates DomTree or DeferredDominance, and LoopInfo and MemoryDependenceResults
Moves all instruction from BB to Pred, deletes BB
Returns if doesn't have a single predecessor
Returns if BB's address was taken
Uses of MergeBasicBlockIntoOnlyPred that need to be replaced:
1. lib/Transforms/Scalar/LoopSimplifyCFG.cpp
Updated in this patch. No challenges.
2. lib/CodeGen/CodeGenPrepare.cpp
Updated in this patch.
i. eliminateFallThrough is straightforward, but I added using a temporary array to avoid the iterator invalidation.
ii. eliminateMostlyEmptyBlock(s) methods also now use a temporary array for blocks
Some interesting aspects:
- Since Pred is not deleted (BB is), the entry block does not need updating.
- The entry block was being updated with the deleted block in eliminateMostlyEmptyBlock. Added assert to make obvious that BB=SinglePred.
- isMergingEmptyBlockProfitable assumes BB is the one to be deleted.
- eliminateMostlyEmptyBlock(BB) does not delete BB on one path, it deletes its unique predecessor instead.
- adding some test owner as subscribers for the interesting tests modified:
test/CodeGen/X86/avx-cmp.ll
test/CodeGen/AMDGPU/nested-loop-conditions.ll
test/CodeGen/AMDGPU/si-annotate-cf.ll
test/CodeGen/X86/hoist-spill.ll
test/CodeGen/X86/2006-11-17-IllegalMove.ll
3. lib/Transforms/Scalar/JumpThreading.cpp
Not covered in this patch. It is the only use case using the DeferredDominance.
I would defer to Brian Rzycki to make this replacement.
Reviewers: chandlerc, spatel, davide, brzycki, bkramer, javed.absar
Subscribers: qcolombet, sanjoy, nemanjai, nhaehnle, jlebar, tpr, kbarton, RKSimon, wmi, arsenm, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D48202
llvm-svn: 335183
The idea of partial unswitching is to take a *part* of a branch's
condition that is loop invariant and just unswitching that part. This
primarily makes sense with i1 conditions of branches as opposed to
switches. When dealing with i1 conditions, we can easily extract loop
invariant inputs to a a branch and unswitch them to test them entirely
outside the loop.
As part of this, we now create much more significant cruft in the loop
body, so this relies on adding cleanup passes to the loop pipeline and
revisiting unswitched loops to do that cleanup before continuing to
process them.
This already appears to be more powerful at unswitching than the old
loop unswitch pass, and so I'd appreciate pretty careful review in case
I'm just missing some correctness checks. The `LIV-loop-condition` test
case is not unswitched by the old unswitch pass, but is with this pass.
Thanks to Sanjoy and Fedor for the review!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46706
llvm-svn: 335156
Summary:
I noticed this issue because we didn't put the primary cloned loop into
the `NonChildClonedLoops` vector and so never iterated on it. Once
I fixed that, it made it clear why I had to do a really complicated and
unnecesasry dance when updating the loops to remain in canonical form --
I was unwittingly working around the fact that the primary cloned loop
wasn't in the expected list of cloned loops. Doh!
Now that we include it in this vector, we don't need to return it and we
can consolidate the update logic as we correctly have a single place
where it can be handled.
I've just added a test for the iteration order aspect as every time
I changed the update logic partially or incorrectly here, an existing
test failed and caught it so that seems well covered (which is also
evidenced by the extensive working around of this missing update).
Reviewers: asbirlea, sanjoy
Subscribers: mcrosier, hiraditya, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47647
llvm-svn: 333811
loop-cleanup passes at the beginning of the loop pass pipeline, and
re-enqueue loops after even trivial unswitching.
This will allow us to much more consistently avoid simplifying code
while doing trivial unswitching. I've also added a test case that
specifically shows effective iteration using this technique.
I've unconditionally updated the new PM as that is always using the
SimpleLoopUnswitch pass, and I've made the pipeline changes for the old
PM conditional on using this new unswitch pass. I added a bunch of
comments to the loop pass pipeline in the old PM to make it more clear
what is going on when reviewing.
Hopefully this will unblock doing *partial* unswitching instead of just
full unswitching.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47408
llvm-svn: 333493
loop unswitch.
This code incorrectly added the header to the loop block set early. As
a consequence we would incorrectly conclude that a nested loop body had
already been visited when the header of the outer loop was the preheader
of the nested loop. In retrospect, adding the header eagerly doesn't
really make sense. It seems nicer to let the cycle be formed naturally.
This will catch crazy bugs in the CFG reconstruction where we can't
correctly form the cycle earlier rather than later, and makes the rest
of the logic just fall out.
I've also added various asserts that make these issues *much* easier to
debug.
llvm-svn: 330707
This code path can very clearly be called in a context where we have
baselined all the cloned blocks to a particular loop and are trying to
handle nested subloops. There is no harm in this, so just relax the
assert. I've added a test case that will make sure we actually exercise
this code path.
llvm-svn: 330680
The condition this was asserting doesn't actually hold. I've added
comments to explain why, removed the assert, and added a fun test case
reduced out of 403.gcc.
llvm-svn: 330564
Summary:
This fixes the bug pointed out in review with non-trivial unswitching.
This also provides a basis that should make it pretty easy to finish
fleshing out a routine to scan an entire function body for irreducible
control flow, but this patch remains minimal for disabling loop
unswitch.
Reviewers: sanjoy, fedor.sergeev
Subscribers: mcrosier, hiraditya, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45754
llvm-svn: 330357
making it no longer even remotely simple.
The pass will now be more of a "full loop unswitching" pass rather than
anything substantively simpler than any other approach. I plan to rename
it accordingly once the dust settles.
The key ideas of the new loop unswitcher are carried over for
non-trivial unswitching:
1) Fully unswitch a branch or switch instruction from inside of a loop to
outside of it.
2) Update the CFG and IR. This avoids needing to "remember" the
unswitched branches as well as avoiding excessively cloning and
reliance on complex parts of simplify-cfg to cleanup the cfg.
3) Update the analyses (where we can) rather than just blowing them away
or relying on something else updating them.
Sadly, #3 is somewhat compromised here as the dominator tree updates
were too complex for me to want to reason about. I will need to make
another attempt to do this now that we have a nice dynamic update API
for dominators. However, we do adhere to #3 w.r.t. LoopInfo.
This approach also adds an important principls specific to non-trivial
unswitching: not *all* of the loop will be duplicated when unswitching.
This fact allows us to compute the cost in terms of how much *duplicate*
code is inserted rather than just on raw size. Unswitching conditions
which essentialy partition loops will work regardless of the total loop
size.
Some remaining issues that I will be addressing in subsequent commits:
- Handling unstructured control flow.
- Unswitching 'switch' cases instead of just branches.
- Moving to the dynamic update API for dominators.
Some high-level, interesting limitationsV that folks might want to push
on as follow-ups but that I don't have any immediate plans around:
- We could be much more clever about not cloning things that will be
deleted. In fact, we should be able to delete *nothing* and do
a minimal number of clones.
- There are many more interesting selection criteria for which branch to
unswitch that we might want to look at. One that I'm interested in
particularly are a set of conditions which all exit the loop and which
can be merged into a single unswitched test of them.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34200
llvm-svn: 318549
pass.
The original logic only considered direct successors of the hoisted
domtree nodes, but that isn't really enough. If there are other basic
blocks that are completely within the subtree, their successors could
just as easily be impacted by the hoisting.
The more I think about it, the more I think the correct update here is
to hoist every block on the dominance frontier which has an idom in the
chain we hoist across. However, this is subtle enough that I'd
definitely appreciate some more eyes on it.
Sadly, if this is the correct algorithm, it requires computing a (highly
localized) dominance frontier. I've done this in the simplest (IE, least
code) way I could come up with, but that may be too naive. Suggestions
welcome here, dominance update algorithms are not an area I've studied
much, so I don't have strong opinions.
In good news, with this patch, turning on simple unswitch passes the
LLVM test suite for me with asserts enabled.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32740
llvm-svn: 303843
invariant PHI inputs and to rewrite PHI nodes during the actual
unswitching.
The checking is quite easy, but rewriting the PHI nodes is somewhat
surprisingly challenging. This should handle both branches and switches.
I think this is now a full featured trivial unswitcher, and more full
featured than the trivial cases in the old pass while still being (IMO)
somewhat simpler in how it works.
Next up is to verify its correctness in more widespread testing, and
then to add non-trivial unswitching.
Thanks to Davide and Sanjoy for the excellent review. There is one
remaining question that I may address in a follow-up patch (see the
review thread for details) but it isn't related to the functionality
specifically.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32699
llvm-svn: 302867
Currently, this pass only focuses on *trivial* loop unswitching. At that
reduced problem it remains significantly better than the current loop
unswitch:
- Old pass is worse than cubic complexity. New pass is (I think) linear.
- New pass is much simpler in its design by focusing on full unswitching. (See
below for details on this).
- New pass doesn't carry state for thresholds between pass iterations.
- New pass doesn't carry state for correctness (both miscompile and
infloop) between pass iterations.
- New pass produces substantially better code after unswitching.
- New pass can handle more trivial unswitch cases.
- New pass doesn't recompute the dominator tree for the entire function
and instead incrementally updates it.
I've ported all of the trivial unswitching test cases from the old pass
to the new one to make sure that major functionality isn't lost in the
process. For several of the test cases I've worked to improve the
precision and rigor of the CHECKs, but for many I've just updated them
to handle the new IR produced.
My initial motivation was the fact that the old pass carried state in
very unreliable ways between pass iterations, and these mechansims were
incompatible with the new pass manager. However, I discovered many more
improvements to make along the way.
This pass makes two very significant assumptions that enable most of these
improvements:
1) Focus on *full* unswitching -- that is, completely removing whatever
control flow construct is being unswitched from the loop. In the case
of trivial unswitching, this means removing the trivial (exiting)
edge. In non-trivial unswitching, this means removing the branch or
switch itself. This is in opposition to *partial* unswitching where
some part of the unswitched control flow remains in the loop. Partial
unswitching only really applies to switches and to folded branches.
These are very similar to full unrolling and partial unrolling. The
full form is an effective canonicalization, the partial form needs
a complex cost model, cannot be iterated, isn't canonicalizing, and
should be a separate pass that runs very late (much like unrolling).
2) Leverage LLVM's Loop machinery to the fullest. The original unswitch
dates from a time when a great deal of LLVM's loop infrastructure was
missing, ineffective, and/or unreliable. As a consequence, a lot of
complexity was added which we no longer need.
With these two overarching principles, I think we can build a fast and
effective unswitcher that fits in well in the new PM and in the
canonicalization pipeline. Some of the remaining functionality around
partial unswitching may not be relevant today (not many test cases or
benchmarks I can find) but if they are I'd like to add support for them
as a separate layer that runs very late in the pipeline.
Purely to make reviewing and introducing this code more manageable, I've
split this into first a trivial-unswitch-only pass and in the next patch
I'll add support for full non-trivial unswitching against a *fixed*
threshold, exactly like full unrolling. I even plan to re-use the
unrolling thresholds, as these are incredibly similar cost tradeoffs:
we're cloning a loop body in order to end up with simplified control
flow. We should only do that when the total growth is reasonably small.
One of the biggest changes with this pass compared to the previous one
is that previously, each individual trivial exiting edge from a switch
was unswitched separately as a branch. Now, we unswitch the entire
switch at once, with cases going to the various destinations. This lets
us unswitch multiple exiting edges in a single operation and also avoids
numerous extremely bad behaviors, where we would introduce 1000s of
branches to test for thousands of possible values, all of which would
take the exact same exit path bypassing the loop. Now we will use
a switch with 1000s of cases that can be efficiently lowered into
a jumptable. This avoids relying on somehow forming a switch out of the
branches or getting horrible code if that fails for any reason.
Another significant change is that this pass actively updates the CFG
based on unswitching. For trivial unswitching, this is actually very
easy because of the definition of loop simplified form. Doing this makes
the code coming out of loop unswitch dramatically more friendly. We
still should run loop-simplifycfg (at the least) after this to clean up,
but it will have to do a lot less work.
Finally, this pass makes much fewer attempts to simplify instructions
based on the unswitch. Something like loop-instsimplify, instcombine, or
GVN can be used to do increasingly powerful simplifications based on the
now dominating predicate. The old simplifications are things that
something like loop-instsimplify should get today or a very, very basic
loop-instcombine could get. Keeping that logic separate is a big
simplifying technique.
Most of the code in this pass that isn't in the old one has to do with
achieving specific goals:
- Updating the dominator tree as we go
- Unswitching all cases in a switch in a single step.
I think it is still shorter than just the trivial unswitching code in
the old pass despite having this functionality.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32409
llvm-svn: 301576
Alina Sbirlea