In http://reviews.llvm.org/rL215382, IT forming was made more conservative under
the belief that a flag-setting instruction was unpredictable inside an IT block on ARMv6M.
But actually, ARMv6M doesn't even support IT blocks so that's impossible. In the ARMARM for
v7M, v7AR and v8AR it states that the semantics of such an instruction changes inside an
IT block - it doesn't set the flags. So actually it is fine to use one inside an IT block
as long as the flags register is dead afterwards.
This gives significant performance improvements in a variety of MPEG based workloads.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11680
llvm-svn: 243869
For many Thumb-1 register register instructions, setting the CPSR is not
permitted inside an IT block. We would not correctly flag those instructions.
The previous change to identify this scenario was insufficient as it did not
actually catch all the instances. The current list is formed by manual
inspection of the ARMv6M ARM.
The change to the Thumb2 IT block test is due to the fact that the new more
stringent checking of the MIs results in the If Conversion pass being prevented
from executing (since not all the instructions in the BB are predicable). This
results in code gen changes.
Thanks to Tim Northover for pointing out that the previous patch was
insufficient and hinting that the use of the v6M ARM would be much easier to use
than the v7 or v8!
llvm-svn: 215382
This patch will optimize abs(x-y)
FROM
sub, movs, rsbmi
TO
subs, rsbmi
For abs, we will use cmp instead of movs. This is necessary because we already
have an existing peephole pass which optimizes away cmp following sub.
rdar: 11633193
llvm-svn: 158551
James Molloy