One unusual feature of the z architecture is that the result of a
previous load can be reused indefinitely for subsequent loads, even if
a cache-coherent store to that location is performed by another CPU.
A special serializing instruction must be used if you want to force
a load to be reattempted.
Since volatile loads are not supposed to be omitted in this way,
we should insert a serializing instruction before each such load.
The same goes for atomic loads.
The patch implements this at the IR->DAG boundary, in a similar way
to atomic fences. It is a no-op for targets other than SystemZ.
llvm-svn: 196905
For some reason I never got around to adding these at the same time as
the signed versions. No idea why.
I'm not sure whether this SystemZII::BranchC* stuff is useful, or whether
it should just be replaced with an "is normal" flag. I'll leave that
for later though.
There are some boundary conditions that can be tweaked, such as preferring
unsigned comparisons for equality with [128, 256), and "<= 255" over "< 256",
but again I'll leave those for a separate patch.
llvm-svn: 190930
This patch just uses a peephole test for "add; compare; branch" sequences
within a single block. The IR optimizers already convert loops to
decrement-and-branch-on-nonzero form in some cases, so even this
simplistic test triggers many times during a clang bootstrap and
projects/test-suite run. It looks like there are still cases where we
need to more strongly prefer branches on nonzero though. E.g. I saw a
case where a loop that started out with a check for 0 ended up with a
check for -1. I'll try to look at that sometime.
I ended up adding the Reference class because MachineInstr::readsRegister()
doesn't check for subregisters (by design, as far as I could tell).
llvm-svn: 187723
...now that the problem that prompted the restriction has been fixed.
The original spill-02.py was a compromise because at the time I couldn't
find an example that actually failed without the two scavenging slots.
The version included here did.
llvm-svn: 185701
Try to use MVC when spilling the destination of a simple load or the source
of a simple store. As explained in the comment, this doesn't yet handle
the case where the load or store location is also a frame index, since
that could lead to two simultaneous scavenger spills, something the
backend can't handle yet. spill-02.py tests that this restriction kicks in,
but unfortunately I've not yet found a case that would fail without it.
The volatile trick I used for other scavenger tests doesn't work here
because we can't use MVC for volatile accesses anyway.
I'm planning on relaxing the restriction later, hopefully with a test
that does trigger the problem...
Tests @f8 and @f9 also showed that L(G)RL and ST(G)RL were wrongly
classified as SimpleBDX{Load,Store}. It wouldn't be easy to test for
that bug separately, which is why I didn't split out the fix as a
separate patch.
llvm-svn: 185434
This patch adds support for the CRJ and CGRJ instructions. Support for
the immediate forms will be a separate patch.
The architecture has a large number of comparison instructions. I think
it's generally better to concentrate on using the "best" comparison
instruction first and foremost, then only use something like CRJ if
CR really was the natual choice of comparison instruction. The patch
therefore opportunistically converts separate CR and BRC instructions
into a single CRJ while emitting instructions in ISelLowering.
llvm-svn: 182764
Before this change, the SystemZ backend would use BRCL for all branches
and only consider shortening them to BRC when generating an object file.
E.g. a branch on equal would use the JGE alias of BRCL in assembly output,
but might be shortened to the JE alias of BRC in ELF output. This was
a useful first step, but it had two problems:
(1) The z assembler isn't traditionally supposed to perform branch shortening
or branch relaxation. We followed this rule by not relaxing branches
in assembler input, but that meant that generating assembly code and
then assembling it would not produce the same result as going directly
to object code; the former would give long branches everywhere, whereas
the latter would use short branches where possible.
(2) Other useful branches, like COMPARE AND BRANCH, do not have long forms.
We would need to do something else before supporting them.
(Although COMPARE AND BRANCH does not change the condition codes,
the plan is to model COMPARE AND BRANCH as a CC-clobbering instruction
during codegen, so that we can safely lower it to a separate compare
and long branch where necessary. This is not a valid transformation
for the assembler proper to make.)
This patch therefore moves branch relaxation to a pre-emit pass.
For now, calls are still shortened from BRASL to BRAS by the assembler,
although this too is not really the traditional behaviour.
The first test takes about 1.5s to run, and there are likely to be
more tests in this vein once further branch types are added. The feeling
on IRC was that 1.5s is a bit much for a single test, so I've restricted
it to SystemZ hosts for now.
The patch exposes (and fixes) some typos in the main CodeGen/SystemZ tests.
A later patch will remove the {{g}}s from that directory.
llvm-svn: 182274
