This changes the matrix load/store intrinsic definitions to load/store from/to
a pointer, and not from/to a pointer to a vector, as discussed in D83477.
This also includes the recommit of "[Matrix] Tighten LangRef definitions and
Verifier checks" which adds improved language reference descriptions of the
matrix intrinsics and verifier checks.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83785
This patch adjust the load/store matrix intrinsics, formerly known as
llvm.matrix.columnwise.load/store, to improve the naming and allow
passing of extra information (volatile).
The patch performs the following changes:
* Rename columnwise.load/store to column.major.load/store. This is more
expressive and also more in line with the naming in Clang.
* Changes the stride arguments from i32 to i64. The stride can be
larger than i32 and this makes things more uniform with the way
things are handled in Clang.
* A new boolean argument is added to indicate whether the load/store
is volatile. The lowering respects that when emitting vector
load/store instructions
* MatrixBuilder is updated to require both Alignment and IsVolatile
arguments, which are passed through to the generated intrinsic. The
alignment is set using the `align` attribute.
The changes are grouped together in a single patch, to have a single
commit that breaks the compatibility. We probably should be fine with
updating the intrinsics, as we did not yet officially support them in
the last stable release. If there are any concerns, we can add
auto-upgrade rules for the columnwise intrinsics though.
Reviewers: anemet, Gerolf, hfinkel, andrew.w.kaylor, LuoYuanke, nicolasvasilache, rjmccall, ftynse
Reviewed By: anemet, nicolasvasilache
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D81472
As suggested in D81472, the load/store intrinsics' pointer arguments can
be marked as nocapture and all matrix intrinsics as nosync.
This also re-flows the intrinsic definitions, to make them a little more
concise.
This is the first patch adding an initial set of matrix intrinsics and a
corresponding lowering pass. This has been discussed on llvm-dev:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-October/136240.html
The first patch introduces four new intrinsics (transpose, multiply,
columnwise load and store) and a LowerMatrixIntrinsics pass, that
lowers those intrinsics to vector operations.
Matrixes are embedded in a 'flat' vector (e.g. a 4 x 4 float matrix
embedded in a <16 x float> vector) and the intrinsics take the dimension
information as parameters. Those parameters need to be ConstantInt.
For the memory layout, we initially assume column-major, but in the RFC
we also described how to extend the intrinsics to support row-major as
well.
For the initial lowering, we split the input of the intrinsics into a
set of column vectors, transform those column vectors and concatenate
the result columns to a flat result vector.
This allows us to lower the intrinsics without any shape propagation, as
mentioned in the RFC. In follow-up patches, we plan to submit the
following improvements:
* Shape propagation to eliminate the embedding/splitting for each
intrinsic.
* Fused & tiled lowering of multiply and other operations.
* Optimization remarks highlighting matrix expressions and costs.
* Generate loops for operations on large matrixes.
* More general block processing for operation on large vectors,
exploiting shape information.
We would like to add dedicated transpose, columnwise load and store
intrinsics, even though they are not strictly necessary. For example, we
could instead emit a large shufflevector instruction instead of the
transpose. But we expect that to
(1) become unwieldy for larger matrixes (even for 16x16 matrixes,
the resulting shufflevector masks would be huge),
(2) risk instcombine making small changes, causing us to fail to
detect the transpose, preventing better lowerings
For the load/store, we are additionally planning on exploiting the
intrinsics for better alias analysis.
Reviewers: anemet, Gerolf, reames, hfinkel, andrew.w.kaylor, efriedma, rengolin
Reviewed By: anemet
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70456
Sjoerd Meijer