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
Discussed here:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-January/120320.html
In preparation for adding support for named vregs we are changing the sigil for
physical registers in MIR to '$' from '%'. This will prevent name clashes of
named physical register with named vregs.
llvm-svn: 323922
As part of the unification of the debug format and the MIR format,
always print registers as lowercase.
* Only debug printing is affected. It now follows MIR.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40417
llvm-svn: 319187
Currently we have a number of tests that fail with -verify-machineinstrs.
To detect this cases earlier we add the option to the testcases with the
exception of tests that will currently fail with this option. PR 27456 keeps
track of this failures.
No code review, as discussed with Hal Finkel.
llvm-svn: 277624
Previously, HandleLastUse would delete RegRef information for sub-registers
if they were dead even if their corresponding super-register were still live.
If the super-register were later renamed, then the definitions of the
sub-register would not be updated appropriately. This patch alters the
behavior so that RegInfo information for sub-registers is only deleted when
the sub-register and super-register are both dead.
This resolves PR26775. This is the mirror image of Hal's r227311 commit.
Author: Tom Jablin (tjablin)
Reviewers: kbarton uweigand nemanjai hfinkel
http://reviews.llvm.org/D18448
llvm-svn: 265097
Matt Arsenault