llvm-project/llvm/lib/MCA
Andrea Di Biagio aaaeac6166 [MCA] Remove verification check on MayLoad and MayStore. NFCI
Field NumMicroOpcodes is currently used by mca to model the number of uOPs
dispatched from the uOp-Queue to the out of order backend.  From a 'dispatch'
point of view, an instruction with zero opcodes is still valid; it simply
doesn't consume any dispatch group slots.

However, mca doesn't expect an instruction with zero uOPs to consume pipeline
resources because it is seen as a contradiction.  In practice, it only makes
sense if such an instruction is eliminated and never really executed. It may be
that mca is being too conservative here. However I believe that mca is right,
and we should probably check that inconsistency in CodeGenSchedule.cpp (when we
also verify scheduling classes in general).

This patch removes the check for MayLoad and MayStore in mca.  That check is
probably too conservative: we are already checking if a zero-uops instruction
consumes any processor resources. Note also that instructions with unmodelled
side-effects also tend to set the MayLoad/MayStore flags even if - theoretically
speaking - they might not even consume any hw resources in practice.

In future we may want to implement different checks (possibly outside of mca)
and potentially revisit the logic in mca that verifies instructions.
For that reason I have raised PR44797.
2020-02-05 13:50:01 +00:00
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HardwareUnits [NFC] Fixes -Wrange-loop-analysis warnings 2020-01-01 20:01:37 +01:00
Stages [NFC] Fixes -Wrange-loop-analysis warnings 2020-01-01 20:01:37 +01:00
CMakeLists.txt [cmake] Explicitly mark libraries defined in lib/ as "Component Libraries" 2019-11-21 10:48:08 -08:00
CodeEmitter.cpp [MCA] Add flag -show-encoding to llvm-mca. 2019-08-09 11:26:27 +00:00
Context.cpp [MCA][LSUnit] Track loads and stores until retirement. 2019-10-08 10:46:01 +00:00
HWEventListener.cpp Update the file headers across all of the LLVM projects in the monorepo 2019-01-19 08:50:56 +00:00
InstrBuilder.cpp [MCA] Remove verification check on MayLoad and MayStore. NFCI 2020-02-05 13:50:01 +00:00
Instruction.cpp [MCA] consistently use MCPhysReg instead of unsigned as register type. NFCI 2019-08-22 13:32:17 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt Update the file headers across all of the LLVM projects in the monorepo 2019-01-19 08:50:56 +00:00
Pipeline.cpp [MCA] Fix -Wparentheses warning breaking the -Werror build. 2019-03-27 16:22:36 +00:00
Support.cpp [MCA] Improved debug prints. NFC 2019-02-12 16:18:57 +00:00