Remove the restriction, from the mve tail predication pass, that the
all masked vectors instructions need to be 128-bits. This allows us
to supported extending loads and truncating stores.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D69946
This implements TTI hook 'preferPredicateOverEpilogue' for MVE. This is a
first version and it operates on single block loops only. With this change, the
vectoriser will now determine if tail-folding scalar remainder loops is
possible/desired, which is the first step to generate MVE tail-predicated
vector loops.
This is disabled by default for now. I.e,, this is depends on option
-disable-mve-tail-predication, which is off by default.
I will follow up on this soon with a patch for the vectoriser to respect loop
hint 'vectorize.predicate.enable'. I.e., with this loop hint set to Disabled,
we don't want to tail-fold and we shouldn't query this TTI hook, which is
done in D70125.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D69845
The VCTP instruction will calculate the predicate masked based upon
the number of elements that need to be processed. I had inserted the
sub before the vctp intrinsic and supplied it as the operand, but
this is incorrect as the phi should directly feed the vctp. The sub
is calculating the value for the next iteration.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67921
llvm-svn: 373188
Remove any predicate that we replace with a vctp intrinsic, and try
to remove their operands too. Also look into the exit block to see if
there's any duplicates of the predicates that we've replaced and
clone the vctp to be used there instead.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67709
llvm-svn: 372567
The MVE and LOB extensions of Armv8.1m can be combined to enable
'tail predication' which removes the need for a scalar remainder
loop after vectorization. Lane predication is performed implicitly
via a system register. The effects of predication is described in
Section B5.6.3 of the Armv8.1-m Arch Reference Manual, the key points
being:
- For vector operations that perform reduction across the vector and
produce a scalar result, whether the value is accumulated or not.
- For non-load instructions, the predicate flags determine if the
destination register byte is updated with the new value or if the
previous value is preserved.
- For vector store instructions, whether the store occurs or not.
- For vector load instructions, whether the value that is loaded or
whether zeros are written to that element of the destination
register.
This patch implements a pass that takes a hardware loop, containing
masked vector instructions, and converts it something that resembles
an MVE tail predicated loop. Currently, if we had code generation,
we'd generate a loop in which the VCTP would generate the predicate
and VPST would then setup the value of VPR.PO. The loads and stores
would be placed in VPT blocks so this is not tail predication, but
normal VPT predication with the predicate based upon a element
counting induction variable. Further work needs to be done to finally
produce a true tail predicated loop.
Because only the loads and stores are predicated, in both the LLVM IR
and MIR level, we will restrict support to only lane-wise operations
(no horizontal reductions). We will perform a final check on MIR
during loop finalisation too.
Another restriction, specific to MVE, is that all the vector
instructions need operate on the same number of elements. This is
because predication is performed at the byte level and this is set
on entry to the loop, or by the VCTP instead.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65884
llvm-svn: 371179
Sam Parker