The final piece of IR-level analysis to allow this was committed with:
rL350188
Using the intrinsics should improve transforms based on cost models
like vectorization and inlining.
The backend should be prepared too, so we can now canonicalize more
sequences of shift/logic to the intrinsics and know that the end
result should be equal or better to the original code even if the
target does not have an actual rotate instruction.
llvm-svn: 350199
Now, that we have funnel shift intrinsics, it should be safe to convert this form of rotate to it.
In the worst case (a target that doesn't have rotate instructions), we will expand this into a
branch-less sequence of ALU ops (neg/and/and/lshr/shl/or) in the backend, so it's still very
likely to be a perf improvement over the original code.
The motivating source code pattern for this is shown in:
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34924
Background:
I looked at several different options before deciding where to try this - instcombine, simplifycfg,
CGP - because it doesn't fit cleanly anywhere AFAIK.
The backend (CGP, SDAG, GlobalIsel?) is too late for what we're trying to accomplish. We want to
have the IR converted before we reach things like vectorization because the reduced code can make a
loop much simpler to transform.
Technically, this could be included in instcombine, but it's a large pattern match that includes
control-flow, so it just felt wrong to stuff into there (although I have a draft of that patch).
Similarly, this could be part of simplifycfg, but all of this pattern matching is a stretch.
So we're left with our relatively new dumping ground for homeless transforms: aggressive-instcombine.
This only runs at -O3, but that seems like a reasonable limitation given that source code has many
options to avoid this pattern (including the recently added clang intrinsics for rotates).
I'm including a PhaseOrdering test because we require the teamwork of 3 passes (aggressive-instcombine,
instcombine, simplifycfg) to get this into the minimal IR form that we want. That test shows a bug
with the new pass manager that's independent of this change (but it will be masked if we canonicalize
harder to funnel shift intrinsics in instcombine).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55604
llvm-svn: 349396
As mentioned in D55604, there are 2 bugs here:
1. The new pass manager is speculating wildly by default.
2. The old pass manager is not converting this to funnel shift.
llvm-svn: 348980
Sanjay Patel