Currently undef is used as a don’t-care vector when constructing a vector using a series of insertelement.
However, this is problematic because undef isn’t undefined enough.
Especially, a sequence of insertelement can be optimized to shufflevector, but using undef as its placeholder makes shufflevector a poison-blocking instruction because undef cannot be optimized to poison.
This makes a few straightforward optimizations incorrect, such as:
```
; https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44185
define <4 x float> @insert_not_undef_shuffle_translate_commute(float %x, <4 x float> %y, <4 x float> %q) {
%xv = insertelement <4 x float> %q, float %x, i32 2
%r = shufflevector <4 x float> %y, <4 x float> %xv, <4 x i32> { 0, 6, 2, undef }
ret <4 x float> %r ; %r[3] is undef
}
=>
define <4 x float> @insert_not_undef_shuffle_translate_commute(float %x, <4 x float> %y, <4 x float> %q) {
%r = insertelement <4 x float> %y, float %x, i32 1
ret <4 x float> %r ; %r[3] = %y[3], incorrect if %y[3] = poison
}
Transformation doesn't verify!
ERROR: Target is more poisonous than source
```
I’d like to suggest
1. Using poison as insertelement’s placeholder value (IRBuilder::CreateVectorSplat should be patched too)
2. Updating shufflevector’s semantics to return poison element if mask is undef
Note that poison is currently lowered into UNDEF in SelDag, so codegen part is okay.
m_Undef() matches PoisonValue as well, so existing optimizations will still fire.
The only concern is hidden miscompilations that will go incorrect when poison constant is given.
A conservative way is copying all tests having `insertelement undef` & replacing it with `insertelement poison` & run Alive2 on it, but it will create many tests and people won’t like it. :(
Instead, I’ll simply locally maintain the tests and run Alive2.
If there is any bug found, I’ll report it.
Relevant links: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43958 , http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-November/137242.html
Reviewed By: nikic
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93586
Summary:
This patch takes the indices operands of `insertelement`/`insertvalue`
into account while generation of seed elements for `findBuildAggregate()`.
This function has kept the original order of `insert`s before.
Also this patch optimizes `findBuildAggregate()` preventing it from
redundant temporary vector allocations and its multiple reversing.
Fixes llvm.org/pr44067
Subscribers: hiraditya, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83779
There are 2 known problem patterns shown in the test diffs here:
vector horizontal ops (an x86 specialization) and vector reductions.
SLP has greater ability to match and fold those than vector-combine,
so let SLP have first chance at that.
This is a quick fix while we continue to improve vector-combine and
possibly canonicalize to reduction intrinsics.
In the longer term, we should improve matching of these patterns
because if they were created in the "bad" forms shown here, then we
would miss optimizing them.
I'm not sure what is happening with alias analysis on the addsub test.
The old pass manager now shows an extra line for that, and we see an
improvement that comes from SLP vectorizing a store. I don't know
what's missing with the new pass manager to make that happen.
Strangely, I can't reproduce the behavior if I compile from C++ with
clang and invoke the new PM with "-fexperimental-new-pass-manager".
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D80236
Juneyoung Lee