This strips out a lot of the code that should no longer be needed from
the MVETailPredictionPass, leaving the important part - find active lane
mask instructions and convert them to VCTP operations.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91866
This checks to see if the loop will likely become a tail predicated loop
and disables wls loop generation if so, as the likelihood for reverting
is currently too high. These should be fairly rare situations anyway due
to the way iterations and element counts are used during lowering. Just
not trying can alter how SCEV's are materialized however, leading to
different codegen.
It also adds a option to disable all while low overhead loops, for
debugging.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91663
This converts the intermediate VPR use assertion to a condition in the if-statement to protect against assertion failures in case behaviuour is changed.
This is a follow-up to https://reviews.llvm.org/D90935 and implements the post-approval comments.
Reviewed By: dmgreen
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91790
This was already something that was handled by one of the "else"
branches in maybeLoweredToCall, so this patch is an NFC but makes it
explicit and adds a test. We may in the future want to support this
under certain situations but for the moment just don't try and create
low overhead loops with inline asm in them.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91257
Of course there was something missing, in this case a check that the def
of the count register we are adding to a t2DoLoopStartTP would dominate
the insertion point.
In the future, when we remove some of these COPY's in between, the
t2DoLoopStartTP will always become the last instruction in the block,
preventing this from happening. In the meantime we need to check they
are created in a sensible order.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91287
This introduces a new pseudo instruction, almost identical to a
t2DoLoopStart but taking 2 parameters - the original loop iteration
count needed for a low overhead loop, plus the VCTP element count needed
for a DLSTP instruction setting up a tail predicated loop. The idea is
that the instruction holds both values and the backend
ARMLowOverheadLoops pass can pick between the two, depending on whether
it creates a tail predicated loop or falls back to a low overhead loop.
To do that there needs to be something that converts a t2DoLoopStart to
a t2DoLoopStartTP, for which this patch repurposes the
MVEVPTOptimisationsPass as a "tail predication and vpt optimisation"
pass. The extra operand for the t2DoLoopStartTP is chosen based on the
operands of VCTP's in the loop, and the instruction is moved as late in
the block as possible to attempt to increase the likelihood of making
tail predicated loops.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90591
This hints the operand of a t2DoLoopStart towards using LR, which can
help make it more likely to become t2DLS lr, lr. This makes it easier to
move if needed (as the input is the same as the output), or potentially
remove entirely.
The hint is added after others (from COPY's etc) which still take
precedence. It needed to find a place to add the hint, which currently
uses the post isel custom inserter.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D89883
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
There were cases where a VCMP and a VPST were merged even if the VCMP
didn't have the same defs of its operands as the VPST. This is fixed by
adding RDA checks for the defs. This however gave rise to cases where
the new VPST created would precede the un-merged VCMP and so would fail
a predicate mask assertion since the VCMP wasn't predicated. This was
solved by converting the VCMP to a VPT instead of inserting the new
VPST.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90461
This is based on the same idea that I am using for the basic model implementation
and what I have partly already done for x86: throughput cost is number of
instructions/uops, so size/blended costs are identical except in special cases
(for example, fdiv or other known-expensive machine instructions or things like
MVE that may require cracking into >1 uop)).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90692
If an instruction will be lowered to a call there is no advantage of
using a low overhead loop as the LR register will need to be spilled and
reloaded around the call, and the low overhead will end up being
reverted. This teaches our hardware loop lowering that these memory
intrinsics will be calls under certain situations.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90439
This reverts commit 38f625d0d1.
This commit contains some holes in its logic and has been causing
issues since it was commited. The idea sounds OK but some cases were not
handled correctly. Instead of trying to fix that up later it is probably
simpler to revert it and work to reimplement it in a more reliable way.
There are a number of places in RDA where we assume the block will not
be empty. This isn't necessarily true for tail predicated loops where we
have removed instructions. This attempt to make the pass more resilient
to empty blocks, not casting pointers to machine instructions where they
would be invalid.
The test contains a case that was previously failing, but recently been
hidden on trunk. It contains an empty block to begin with to show a
similar error.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88926
Before deciding to insert a [W|D]LSTP, check that defining LR with
the element count won't affect any other instructions that should be
taking the iteration count.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88549
We weren't looking at global uses of a value, so we could happily
overwrite the register incorrectly.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88554
So forwards is forwards and backwards is reverse. Also add a check
so that we know the instructions are in the expected order.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88419
Just because we haven't encountered an instruction setting the VPR,
it doesn't mean we can't create a VPT block - the VPR maybe a
live-in.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88224
This is a reimplementation of the overflow checks for the elementcount,
i.e. the 2nd argument of intrinsic get.active.lane.mask. The element
count is lowered in each iteration of the tail-predicated loop, and
we must prove that this expression doesn't overflow.
Many thanks to Eli Friedman and Sam Parker for all their help with
this work.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88086
9d9a11c7be added this check for predicatable instructions between the
D/WLSTP and the loop's start, but it was missing the last instruction in
the block. Change it to use some iterators instead.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88354
On failing to find a VCTP in the list of instructions that explicitly
predicate the entry of a VPT block, inspect whether the block is
controlled via VPT which is implicitly predicated due to it's
predicated operand(s).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87819
This might be useful for testing. We already have an option -tail-predication
but that controls the MVETailPredication pass. This
-arm-loloops-disable-tail-pred is just for disabling it in the LowoverheadLoops
pass.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88212
If the LSTP instruction is inserted with an element count low enough
to immediately predicate some lanes as false, this can have some
unintended effects on any proceeding MVE instructions in the
preheader.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88209
The VPTBlock has been modified to track the 'global' state of the
VPR, as well as the state for each block. Each object now just holds
a list of instructions that makeup the block, while static structures
hold the predicate information. This enables global access for
querying how both a VPT block and individual instructions are
predicated. These changes now allow us, again, to handle more
complicated cases where multiple instructions build a predicate
and/or where the same predicate in used in multiple blocks.
It doesn't, however, get us back to before the tracking was 'fixed'
as some extra logic will be required to properly handle VPT
instructions. Currently a VPT could be effectively predicated because
of it's inputs, but the existing logic will not detect that and so
will refuse to perform the transformation. This can be seen in
remat-vctp.ll test where we still don't perform the transform.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87681
Remove the domain from the instructions and create a shouldInspect
helper for LowOverheadLoops which queries it or a vpr operand.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87900
This rewrites big parts of the fast register allocator. The basic
strategy of doing block-local allocation hasn't changed but I tweaked
several details:
Track register state on register units instead of physical
registers. This simplifies and speeds up handling of register aliases.
Process basic blocks in reverse order: Definitions are known to end
register livetimes when walking backwards (contrary when walking
forward then uses may or may not be a kill so we need heuristics).
Check register mask operands (calls) instead of conservatively
assuming everything is clobbered. Enhance heuristics to detect
killing uses: In case of a small number of defs/uses check if they are
all in the same basic block and if so the last one is a killing use.
Enhance heuristic for copy-coalescing through hinting: We check the
first k defs of a register for COPYs rather than relying on there just
being a single definition. When testing this on the full llvm
test-suite including SPEC externals I measured:
average 5.1% reduction in code size for X86, 4.9% reduction in code on
aarch64. (ranging between 0% and 20% depending on the test) 0.5%
faster compiletime (some analysis suggests the pass is slightly slower
than before, but we more than make up for it because later passes are
faster with the reduced instruction count)
Also adds a few testcases that were broken without this patch, in
particular bug 47278.
Patch mostly by Matthias Braun
The predicated MVE intrinsics are generated as, for example,
llvm.arm.mve.add.predicated(x, splat(y). p). We need to sink the splat
value back into the loop, like we do for other instructions, so we can
re-select qr variants.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87693
We've fixed the case where this could return an instruction after the
given instruction, but also means that we can falsely return a
'unique' def when they could be one coming from the backedge of a
loop.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87751
Clear the CurrentPredicate when we find an instruction which would
completely overwrite the VPR. This fix essentially means we're back
to not really being able to handle VPT instructions when tail
predicating.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87610
This adds additional checks for the original scalar loop tripcount value, i.e.
get.active.lane.mask second argument, and perform several sanity checks to see
if it is of the form that we expect similarly like we already do for the IV
which is the first argument of get.active.lane.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D86074
values
The effects of unpredicated vector instruction with unknown
lanes cannot be predicted and therefore cannot be tail predicated. This
does not apply to predicated vector instructions and so this patch
allows tail predication on them.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87376
Simon Pilgrim