In RISC-V there is a single addressing mode of the form imm(reg) where
imm is a signed integer of 12-bit with a range of [-2048..2047] bytes
from reg.
The test MultiSource/UnitTests/C++11/frame_layout of the LLVM test-suite
exercises several scenarios with the stack, including function calls
where the stack will need to be realigned to to a local variable having
a large alignment of 4096 bytes.
In situations of large stacks, the RISC-V backend (in
RISCVFrameLowering) reserves an extra emergency spill slot which can be
used (if no free register is found) by the register scavenger after the
frame indexes have been eliminated. PrologEpilogInserter already takes
care of keeping the emergency spill slots as close as possible to the
stack pointer or frame pointer (depending on what the function will
use). However there is a final alignment step to honour the maximum
alignment of the stack that, when using the stack pointer to access the
emergency spill slots, has the side effect of setting them farther from
the stack pointer.
In the case of the frame_layout testcase, the net result is that we do
have an emergency spill slot but it is so far from the stack pointer
(more than 2048 bytes due to the extra alignment of a variable to 4096
bytes) that it becomes unreachable via any immediate offset.
During elimination of the frame index, many (regular) offsets of the
stack may be immediately unreachable already. Their address needs to be
computed using a register. A virtual register is created and later
RegisterScavenger should be able to find an unused (physical) register.
However if no register is available, RegisterScavenger will pick a
physical register and spill it onto an emergency stack slot, while we
compute the offset (restoring the chosen register after all this). This
assumes that the emergency stack slot is easily reachable (this is,
without requiring another register!).
This is the assumption we seem to break when we perform the extra
alignment in PrologEpilogInserter.
We can "float" the emergency spill slots by increasing (in absolute
value) their offsets from the incoming stack pointer. This way the
emergency spill slots will remain close to the stack pointer (once the
function has allocated storage for the stack, including the needed
realignment). The new size computed in PrologEpilogInserter is padding
so it should be OK to move the emergency spill slots there. Also because
we're increasing the alignment, the new location should stay aligned for
the purpose of the emergency spill slots.
Note that this change also impacts other backends as shown by the tests.
Changes are minor adjustments to the emergency stack slot offset.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D89239
If the stack pointer is altered for local variables and we are generating
Thumb2 execute-only code the .pad directive is missing.
Usually the size of the adjustment is stored in a PC-relative location
and loaded into a register which is then added to the stack pointer.
However when we are generating execute-only code code the size of the
adjustment is instead generated using the MOVW/MOVT instruction pair.
As a by product of handling the execute-only case this also fixes an
existing issue that in the none execute-only case the .pad directive was
generated against the load of the constant to a register instruction,
instead of the instruction which adds the register to the stack pointer.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D76849
The current implementation of ThumbRegisterInfo::saveScavengerRegister
is bad for two reasons: one, it's buggy, and two, it blocks using R12
for other optimizations. So this patch gets rid of it, and adds the
necessary support for using an ordinary emergency spill slot on Thumb1.
(Specifically, I think saveScavengerRegister was broken by r305625, and
nobody noticed for two years because the codepath is almost never used.
The new code will also probably not be used much, but it now has better
tests, and if we fail to emit a necessary emergency spill slot we get a
reasonable error message instead of a miscompile.)
A rough outline of the changes in the patch:
1. Gets rid of ThumbRegisterInfo::saveScavengerRegister.
2. Modifies ARMFrameLowering::determineCalleeSaves to allocate an
emergency spill slot for Thumb1.
3. Implements useFPForScavengingIndex, so the emergency spill slot isn't
placed at a negative offset from FP on Thumb1.
4. Modifies the heuristics for allocating an emergency spill slot to
support Thumb1. This includes fixing ExtraCSSpill so we don't try to
use "lr" as a substitute for allocating an emergency spill slot.
5. Allocates a base pointer in more cases, so the emergency spill slot
is always accessible.
6. Modifies ARMFrameLowering::ResolveFrameIndexReference to compute the
right offset in the new cases where we're forcing a base pointer.
7. Ensures we never generate a load or store with an offset outside of
its frame object. This makes the heuristics more straightforward.
8. Changes Thumb1 prologue and epilogue emission so it never uses
register scavenging.
Some of the changes to the emergency spill slot heuristics in
determineCalleeSaves affect ARM/Thumb2; hopefully, they should allow
the compiler to avoid allocating an emergency spill slot in cases
where it isn't necessary. The rest of the changes should only affect
Thumb1.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63677
llvm-svn: 364490
Roger Ferrer Ibanez