PWR9 processor model for instruction scheduling. A subsequent patch will migrate
PWR9 to Post RA MIScheduler.
https://reviews.llvm.org/D24525
llvm-svn: 290102
This change enables soft-float for PowerPC64, and also makes soft-float disable
all vector instruction sets for both 32-bit and 64-bit modes. This latter part
is necessary because the PPC backend canonicalizes many Altivec vector types to
floating-point types, and so soft-float breaks scalarization support for many
operations. Both for embedded targets and for operating-system kernels desiring
soft-float support, it seems reasonable that disabling hardware floating-point
also disables vector instructions (embedded targets without hardware floating
point support are unlikely to have Altivec, etc. and operating system kernels
desiring not to use floating-point registers to lower syscall cost are unlikely
to want to use vector registers either). If someone needs this to work, we'll
need to change the fact that we promote many Altivec operations to act on
v4f32. To make it possible to disable Altivec when soft-float is enabled,
hardware floating-point support needs to be expressed as a positive feature,
like the others, and not a negative feature, because target features cannot
have dependencies on the disabling of some other feature. So +soft-float has
now become -hard-float.
Fixes PR26970.
llvm-svn: 283060
There is currently no codegen for Power9 that depends on the directive
so this is NFC for now but will be important in the future. This was
missed in r268950 so I'm adding it now.
llvm-svn: 281473
The "long call" option forces the use of the indirect calling sequence for all
calls (even those that don't really need it). GCC provides this option; This is
helpful, under certain circumstances, for building very-large binaries, and
some other specialized use cases.
Fixes PR19098.
llvm-svn: 280040
This patch corresponds to review:
http://reviews.llvm.org/D19683
Simply adds the bits for being able to specify -mcpu=pwr9 to the back end.
llvm-svn: 268950
This patch corresponds to review:
http://reviews.llvm.org/D17850
This patch implements the following instructions:
cmprb, cmpeqb, cnttzw, cnttzw., cnttzd, cnttzd.
llvm-svn: 266228
This patch corresponds to review:
http://reviews.llvm.org/D18032
This patch provides asm implementation for the following instructions:
lwat, ldat, stwat, stdat, ldmx, mcrxrx
llvm-svn: 265022
Instead of using two feature bits, one to indicate the availability of the
popcnt[dw] instructions, and another to indicate whether or not they're fast,
use a single enum. This allows more consistent control via target attribute
strings, and via Clang's command line.
llvm-svn: 264690
The A2 cores support the popcntw/popcntd instructions, but they're microcoded,
and slower than our default software emulation. Specifically, popcnt[dw] take
approximately 74 cycles, whereas our software emulation takes only 24-28
cycles.
I've added a new target feature to indicate a slow popcnt[dw], instead of just
removing the existing target feature from the a2/a2q processor models, because:
1. This allows us to return more accurate information via the TTI interface
(I recognize that this currently makes no practical difference)
2. Is hopefully easier to understand (it allows the core's features to match
its manual while still having the desired effect).
llvm-svn: 264600
This patch corresponds to review:
http://reviews.llvm.org/D15117
In preparation for supporting IEEE Quad precision floating point,
this patch simply defines a feature to specify the target supports this.
For now, nothing is done with the target feature, we just don't want
warnings from the Clang FE when a user specifies -mfloat128.
Calling convention and other related work will add to this patch in
the near future.
llvm-svn: 255642
This is the second in a set of patches for soft float support for ppc32,
it enables soft float operations.
Patch by Strahinja Petrovic.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13700
llvm-svn: 255516
The e500mc does not actually support the mfocrf instruction; update the
processor definitions to reflect that fact.
Patch by Tom Rix (with some test-case cleanup by me).
llvm-svn: 254064
The mftb instruction was incorrectly marked as deprecated in the PPC
Backend. Instead, it should not be treated as deprecated, but rather be
implemented using the mfspr instruction. A similar patch was put into GCC last
year. Details can be found at:
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-11/msg00383.html.
This change will replace instances of the mftb instruction with the mfspr
instruction for all CPUs except 601 and pwr3. This will also be the default
behaviour.
Additional details can be found in:
https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23680
Phabricator review: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10419
llvm-svn: 239827
As it turns out, even though these are part of ISA 2.06, the P7 does not
support them (or, at least, not any P7s we're tested so far).
llvm-svn: 234686
This patch corresponds to review:
http://reviews.llvm.org/D8928
It adds direct move instructions to/from VSX registers to GPR's. These are
exploited for FP <-> INT conversions.
llvm-svn: 234682
This is the patch corresponding to review:
http://reviews.llvm.org/D8406
It adds some missing instructions from ISA 2.06 to the PPC back end.
llvm-svn: 234546
This patch adds Hardware Transaction Memory (HTM) support supported by ISA 2.07
(POWER8). The intrinsic support is based on GCC one [1], but currently only the
'PowerPC HTM Low Level Built-in Function' are implemented.
The HTM instructions follows the RC ones and the transaction initiation result
is set on RC0 (with exception of tcheck). Currently approach is to create a
register copy from CR0 to GPR and comapring. Although this is suboptimal, since
the branch could be taken directly by comparing the CR0 value, it generates code
correctly on both test and branch and just return value. A possible future
optimization could be elimitate the MFCR instruction to branch directly.
The HTM usage requires a recently newer kernel with PPC HTM enabled. Tested on
powerpc64 and powerpc64le.
This is send along a clang patch to enabled the builtins and option switch.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/PowerPC-Hardware-Transactional-Memory-Built-in-Functions.html
Phabricator Review: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8247
llvm-svn: 233204
Patch by Kit Barton.
Add the vector population count instructions for byte, halfword, word,
and doubleword sizes. There are two major changes here:
PPCISelLowering.cpp: Make CTPOP legal for vector types.
PPCRegisterInfo.td: Added v2i64 to the VRRC register
definition. This is needed for the doubleword variations of the
integer ops that were added in P8.
Test Plan
Test the instruction vpcnt* encoding/decoding in ppc64-encoding-vmx.s
Test the generation of the vpopcnt instructions for various vector
data types. When adding the v2i64 type to the Vector Register set, I
also needed to add the appropriate bit conversion patterns between
v2i64 and the existing vector types. Testing for these conversions
were also added in the test case by passing a different vector type as
a parameter into the test functions. There is also a run step that
will ensure the vpopcnt instructions are generated when the vsx
feature is disabled.
llvm-svn: 228046
Test by Nemanja Ivanovic.
Since ppc64le implies POWER8 as a minimum, it makes sense that the
same features are included. Since the pwr8 processor model will likely
be getting new features until the implementation is complete, I
created a new list to add these updates to. This will include them in
both pwr8 and ppc64le.
Furthermore, it seems that it would make sense to compose the feature
lists for other processor models (pwr3 and up). Per discussion in the
review, I will make this change in a subsequent patch.
In order to test the changes, I've added an additional run step to
test cases that specify -march=ppc64le -mcpu=pwr8 to omit the -mcpu
option. Since the feature lists are the same, the behaviour should be
unchanged.
llvm-svn: 227053
Function pointers under PPC64 ELFv1 (which is used on PPC64/Linux on the
POWER7, A2 and earlier cores) are really pointers to a function descriptor, a
structure with three pointers: the actual pointer to the code to which to jump,
the pointer to the TOC needed by the callee, and an environment pointer. We
used to chain these loads, and make them opaque to the rest of the optimizer,
so that they'd always occur directly before the call. This is not necessary,
and in fact, highly suboptimal on embedded cores. Once the function pointer is
known, the loads can be performed ahead of time; in fact, they can be hoisted
out of loops.
Now these function descriptors are almost always generated by the linker, and
thus the contents of the descriptors are invariant. As a result, by default,
we'll mark the associated loads as invariant (allowing them to be hoisted out
of loops). I've added a target feature to turn this off, however, just in case
someone needs that option (constructing an on-stack descriptor, casting it to a
function pointer, and then calling it cannot be well-defined C/C++ code, but I
can imagine some JIT-compilation system doing so).
Consider this simple test:
$ cat call.c
typedef void (*fp)();
void bar(fp x) {
for (int i = 0; i < 1600000000; ++i)
x();
}
$ cat main.c
typedef void (*fp)();
void bar(fp x);
void foo() {}
int main() {
bar(foo);
}
On the PPC A2 (the BG/Q supercomputer), marking the function-descriptor loads
as invariant brings the execution time down to ~8 seconds from ~32 seconds with
the loads in the loop.
The difference on the POWER7 is smaller. Compiling with:
gcc -std=c99 -O3 -mcpu=native call.c main.c : ~6 seconds [this is 4.8.2]
clang -O3 -mcpu=native call.c main.c : ~5.3 seconds
clang -O3 -mcpu=native call.c main.c -mno-invariant-function-descriptors : ~4 seconds
(looks like we'd benefit from additional loop unrolling here, as a first
guess, because this is faster with the extra loads)
The -mno-invariant-function-descriptors will be added to Clang shortly.
llvm-svn: 226207
Patch by Kit Barton.
Support for the ICBT instruction is currently present, but limited to
embedded processors. This change adds a new FeatureICBT that can be used
to identify whether the ICBT instruction is available on a specific processor.
Two new tests are added:
* Positive test to ensure the icbt instruction is present when using
-mcpu=pwr8
* Negative test to ensure the icbt instruction is not generated when
using -mcpu=pwr7
Both test cases use the Prefetch opcode in LLVM. They are based on the
ppc64-prefetch.ll test case.
llvm-svn: 226033
Newer POWER cores, and the A2, support the cmpb instruction. This instruction
compares its operands, treating each of the 8 bytes in the GPRs separately,
returning a 'mask' result of 0 (for false) or -1 (for true) in each byte.
Code generation support is added, in the form of a PPCISelDAGToDAG
DAG-preprocessing routine, that recognizes patterns close to what the
instruction computes (either exactly, or related by a constant masking
operation), and generates the cmpb instruction (along with any necessary
constant masking operation). This can be expanded if use cases arise.
llvm-svn: 225106
This was missed last time around, for the P8 Instruction Scheduling
changes (223257). This will hook the P8Model entry in so those
changes will actually be used.
llvm-svn: 224452
CodeGen/PowerPC/vsx-p8.ll was failing.
'+power8-vector' is not a recognized feature for this target (ignoring feature)
llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/vsx-p8.ll:33:14: error: expected string not found in input
; CHECK-REG: lxvw4x 34, 0, 3
^
<stdin>:50:2: note: scanning from here
.align 3
^
<stdin>:61:2: note: possible intended match here
lvx 3, 0, 3
^
llvm-svn: 223729
The current VSX feature for PowerPC specifies availability of the VSX
instructions added with the 2.06 architecture version. With 2.07, the
architecture adds new instructions to both the Category:Vector and
Category:VSX instruction sets. Additionally, unaligned vector storage
operations have improved performance.
This patch adds a feature to provide access to the new instructions
and performance capabilities of Power8. For compatibility with GCC,
the feature is controlled via a new -mpower8-vector switch, and the
feature causes the __POWER8_VECTOR__ builtin define to be generated by
the preprocessor.
There is a companion patch for cfe being committed at the same time.
llvm-svn: 219501
Older Book-E cores, such as the PPC 440, support only msync (which has the same
encoding as sync 0), but not any of the other sync forms. Newer Book-E cores,
however, do support sync, and for performance reasons we should allow the use
of the more-general form.
This refactors msync use into its own feature group so that it applies by
default only to older Book-E cores (of the relevant cores, we only have
definitions for the PPC440/450 currently).
llvm-svn: 218923
While LLVM now supports both ELFv1 and ELFv2 ABIs, their use is currently
hard-coded via the target triple: powerpc64-linux is always ELFv1, while
powerpc64le-linux is always ELFv2.
These are of course the most common scenarios, but in principle it is
possible to support the ELFv2 ABI on big-endian or the ELFv1 ABI on
little-endian systems (and GCC does support that), and there are some
special use cases for that (e.g. certain Linux kernel versions could
only be built using ELFv1 on LE).
This patch implements the LLVM side of supporting this. As precedent
on other platforms suggests, ABI options are passed to the back-end as
features. Thus, this patch implements two features "elfv1" and "elfv2"
that select the desired ABI if present. (If not, the LLVM uses the
same default rules as now.)
llvm-svn: 214072
includes handling DIR_PWR8 where appropriate
The P7Model Itinerary is currently tied in for use under the P8Model, and will be updated later.
llvm-svn: 211779
TableGen will create a lookup table for the A-type FMA instructions providing
their corresponding M-form opcodes. This will be used by upcoming commits.
llvm-svn: 204746
VSX is an ISA extension supported on the POWER7 and later cores that enhances
floating-point vector and scalar capabilities. Among other things, this adds
<2 x double> support and generally helps to reduce register pressure.
The interesting part of this ISA feature is the register configuration: there
are 64 new 128-bit vector registers, the 32 of which are super-registers of the
existing 32 scalar floating-point registers, and the second 32 of which overlap
with the 32 Altivec vector registers. This makes things like vector insertion
and extraction tricky: this can be free but only if we force a restriction to
the right register subclass when needed. A new "minipass" PPCVSXCopy takes care
of this (although it could do a more-optimal job of it; see the comment about
unnecessary copies below).
Please note that, currently, VSX is not enabled by default when targeting
anything because it is not yet ready for that. The assembler and disassembler
are fully implemented and tested. However:
- CodeGen support causes miscompiles; test-suite runtime failures:
MultiSource/Benchmarks/FreeBench/distray/distray
MultiSource/Benchmarks/McCat/08-main/main
MultiSource/Benchmarks/Olden/voronoi/voronoi
MultiSource/Benchmarks/mafft/pairlocalalign
MultiSource/Benchmarks/tramp3d-v4/tramp3d-v4
SingleSource/Benchmarks/CoyoteBench/almabench
SingleSource/Benchmarks/Misc/matmul_f64_4x4
- The lowering currently falls back to using Altivec instructions far more
than it should. Worse, there are some things that are scalarized through the
stack that shouldn't be.
- A lot of unnecessary copies make it past the optimizers, and this needs to
be fixed.
- Many more regression tests are needed.
Normally, I'd fix these things prior to committing, but there are some
students and other contributors who would like to work this, and so it makes
sense to move this development process upstream where it can be subject to the
regular code-review procedures.
llvm-svn: 203768
There are currently two schemes for mapping instruction operands to
instruction-format variables for generating the instruction encoders and
decoders for the assembler and disassembler respectively: a) to map by name and
b) to map by position.
In the long run, we'd like to remove the position-based scheme and use only
name-based mapping. Unfortunately, the name-based scheme currently cannot deal
with complex operands (those with suboperands), and so we currently must use
the position-based scheme for those. On the other hand, the position-based
scheme cannot deal with (register) variables that are split into multiple
ranges. An upcoming commit to the PowerPC backend (adding VSX support) will
require this capability. While we could teach the position-based scheme to
handle that, since we'd like to move away from the position-based mapping
generally, it seems silly to teach it new tricks now. What makes more sense is
to allow for partial transitioning: use the name-based mapping when possible,
and only use the position-based scheme when necessary.
Now the problem is that mixing the two sensibly was not possible: the
position-based mapping would map based on position, but would not skip those
variables that were mapped by name. Instead, the two sets of assignments would
overlap. However, I cannot currently change the current behavior, because there
are some backends that rely on it [I think mistakenly, but I'll send a message
to llvmdev about that]. So I've added a new TableGen bit variable:
noNamedPositionallyEncodedOperands, that can be used to cause the
position-based mapping to skip variables mapped by name.
llvm-svn: 203767
This change enables tracking i1 values in the PowerPC backend using the
condition register bits. These bits can be treated on PowerPC as separate
registers; individual bit operations (and, or, xor, etc.) are supported.
Tracking booleans in CR bits has several advantages:
- Reduction in register pressure (because we no longer need GPRs to store
boolean values).
- Logical operations on booleans can be handled more efficiently; we used to
have to move all results from comparisons into GPRs, perform promoted
logical operations in GPRs, and then move the result back into condition
register bits to be used by conditional branches. This can be very
inefficient, because the throughput of these CR <-> GPR moves have high
latency and low throughput (especially when other associated instructions
are accounted for).
- On the POWER7 and similar cores, we can increase total throughput by using
the CR bits. CR bit operations have a dedicated functional unit.
Most of this is more-or-less mechanical: Adjustments were needed in the
calling-convention code, support was added for spilling/restoring individual
condition-register bits, and conditional branch instruction definitions taking
specific CR bits were added (plus patterns and code for generating bit-level
operations).
This is enabled by default when running at -O2 and higher. For -O0 and -O1,
where the ability to debug is more important, this feature is disabled by
default. Individual CR bits do not have assigned DWARF register numbers,
and storing values in CR bits makes them invisible to the debugger.
It is critical, however, that we don't move i1 values that have been promoted
to larger values (such as those passed as function arguments) into bit
registers only to quickly turn around and move the values back into GPRs (such
as happens when values are returned by functions). A pair of target-specific
DAG combines are added to remove the trunc/extends in:
trunc(binary-ops(binary-ops(zext(x), zext(y)), ...)
and:
zext(binary-ops(binary-ops(trunc(x), trunc(y)), ...)
In short, we only want to use CR bits where some of the i1 values come from
comparisons or are used by conditional branches or selects. To put it another
way, if we can do the entire i1 computation in GPRs, then we probably should
(on the POWER7, the GPR-operation throughput is higher, and for all cores, the
CR <-> GPR moves are expensive).
POWER7 test-suite performance results (from 10 runs in each configuration):
SingleSource/Benchmarks/Misc/mandel-2: 35% speedup
MultiSource/Benchmarks/Prolangs-C++/city/city: 21% speedup
MultiSource/Benchmarks/MiBench/automotive-susan: 23% speedup
SingleSource/Benchmarks/CoyoteBench/huffbench: 13% speedup
SingleSource/Benchmarks/Misc-C++/Large/sphereflake: 13% speedup
SingleSource/Benchmarks/Misc-C++/mandel-text: 10% speedup
SingleSource/Benchmarks/Misc-C++-EH/spirit: 10% slowdown
MultiSource/Applications/lemon/lemon: 8% slowdown
llvm-svn: 202451
The tests for the disassembler were adapted from the encoder tests, and for the
most part, the output from the disassembler matches that encoder-test inputs.
There are some places where more-informative mnemonics could be produced
(notably for the branch instructions), and those cases are noted in the tests
with FIXMEs.
Future work includes:
- Generating more-informative mnemonics when possible (this may also be done
in the printer).
- Remove the dependence on positional "numbered" operand-to-variable mapping
(for both encoding and decoding).
- Internally using 64-bit instruction variants in 64-bit mode (if this turns
out to matter).
llvm-svn: 197693
This adds a scheduling model for the POWER7 (P7) core, and enables the
machine-instruction scheduler when targeting the P7. Scheduling for the P7,
like earlier ooo PPC cores, requires considering both dispatch group hazards,
and functional unit resources and latencies. These are both modeled in a
combined itinerary. Dispatch group formation is still handled by the post-RA
scheduler (which still needs to be updated for the P7, but nevertheless does a
pretty good job).
One interesting aspect of this change is that I've also enabled to use of AA
duing CodeGen for the P7 (just as it is for the embedded cores). The benchmark
results seem to support this decision (see below), and while this is normally
useful for in-order cores, and not for ooo cores like the P7, I think that the
dispatch slot hazards are enough like in-order resources to make the AA useful.
Test suite significant performance differences (where negative is a speedup,
and positive is a regression) vs. the current situation:
MultiSource/Benchmarks/BitBench/drop3/drop3
with AA: N/A
without AA: -28.7614% +/- 19.8356%
(significantly against AA)
MultiSource/Benchmarks/FreeBench/neural/neural
with AA: -17.7406% +/- 11.2712%
without AA: N/A
(significantly in favor of AA)
MultiSource/Benchmarks/SciMark2-C/scimark2
with AA: -11.2079% +/- 1.80543%
without AA: -11.3263% +/- 2.79651%
MultiSource/Benchmarks/TSVC/Symbolics-flt/Symbolics-flt
with AA: -41.8649% +/- 17.0053%
without AA: -34.5256% +/- 23.7072%
MultiSource/Benchmarks/mafft/pairlocalalign
with AA: 25.3016% +/- 17.8614%
without AA: 38.6629% +/- 14.9391%
(significantly in favor of AA)
MultiSource/Benchmarks/sim/sim
with AA: N/A
without AA: 13.4844% +/- 7.18195%
(significantly in favor of AA)
SingleSource/Benchmarks/BenchmarkGame/Large/fasta
with AA: 15.0664% +/- 6.70216%
without AA: 12.7747% +/- 8.43043%
SingleSource/Benchmarks/BenchmarkGame/puzzle
with AA: 82.2713% +/- 26.3567%
without AA: 75.7525% +/- 41.1842%
SingleSource/Benchmarks/Misc/flops-2
with AA: -37.1621% +/- 20.7964%
without AA: -35.2342% +/- 20.2999%
(significantly in favor of AA)
These are 99.5% confidence intervals from 5 runs per configuration. Regarding
the choice to turn on AA during CodeGen, of these results, four seem
significantly in favor of using AA, and one seems significantly against. I'm
not making this decision based on these numbers alone, but these results
seem consistent with results I have from other tests, and so I think that, on
balance, using AA is a win.
llvm-svn: 195981
Ehsan Amiri