It turns our that the BranchFolder and IfCvt does not like unanalyzable
branches that fall-through. This means that removing the unconditional
branches from the end of tail predicated instruction can run into
asserts and verifier issues.
This effectively reverts 372eb2bbb6, but
adds handling to t2DoLoopEndDec which are not branches, so can be safely
skipped.
This treats low overhead loop branches the same as jump tables and
indirect branches in analyzeBranch - they cannot be analyzed but the
direct branches on the end of the block may be removed. This helps
remove the unnecessary branches earlier, which can help produce better
codegen (and change block layout in a number of cases).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94392
This changes the definition of t2DoLoopStart from
t2DoLoopStart rGPR
to
GPRlr = t2DoLoopStart rGPR
This will hopefully mean that low overhead loops are more tied together,
and we can more reliably generate loops without reverting or being at
the whims of the register allocator.
This is a fairly simple change in itself, but leads to a number of other
required alterations.
- The hardware loop pass, if UsePhi is set, now generates loops of the
form:
%start = llvm.start.loop.iterations(%N)
loop:
%p = phi [%start], [%dec]
%dec = llvm.loop.decrement.reg(%p, 1)
%c = icmp ne %dec, 0
br %c, loop, exit
- For this a new llvm.start.loop.iterations intrinsic was added, identical
to llvm.set.loop.iterations but produces a value as seen above, gluing
the loop together more through def-use chains.
- This new instrinsic conceptually produces the same output as input,
which is taught to SCEV so that the checks in MVETailPredication are not
affected.
- Some minor changes are needed to the ARMLowOverheadLoop pass, but it has
been left mostly as before. We should now more reliably be able to tell
that the t2DoLoopStart is correct without having to prove it, but
t2WhileLoopStart and tail-predicated loops will remain the same.
- And all the tests have been updated. There are a lot of them!
This patch on it's own might cause more trouble that it helps, with more
tail-predicated loops being reverted, but some additional patches can
hopefully improve upon that to get to something that is better overall.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D89881
Fix the ARM backend's analyzeBranch so it doesn't ignore predicated
return instructions, and make the MachineVerifier rule more strict.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40061
David Green