This patch teaches llvm-mca how to identify dependency breaking instructions on
btver2.
An example of dependency breaking instructions is the zero-idiom XOR (example:
`XOR %eax, %eax`), which always generates zero regardless of the actual value of
the input register operands.
Dependency breaking instructions don't have to wait on their input register
operands before executing. This is because the computation is not dependent on
the inputs.
Not all dependency breaking idioms are also zero-latency instructions. For
example, `CMPEQ %xmm1, %xmm1` is independent on
the value of XMM1, and it generates a vector of all-ones.
That instruction is not eliminated at register renaming stage, and its opcode is
issued to a pipeline for execution. So, the latency is not zero.
This patch adds a new method named isDependencyBreaking() to the MCInstrAnalysis
interface. That method takes as input an instruction (i.e. MCInst) and a
MCSubtargetInfo.
The default implementation of isDependencyBreaking() conservatively returns
false for all instructions. Targets may override the default behavior for
specific CPUs, and return a value which better matches the subtarget behavior.
In future, we should teach to Tablegen how to automatically generate the body of
isDependencyBreaking from scheduling predicate definitions. This would allow us
to expose the knowledge about dependency breaking instructions to the machine
schedulers (and, potentially, other codegen passes).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D49310
llvm-svn: 338372
This patch teaches llvm-mca how to identify register writes that implicitly zero
the upper portion of a super-register.
On X86-64, a general purpose register is implemented in hardware as a 64-bit
register. Quoting the Intel 64 Software Developer's Manual: "an update to the
lower 32 bits of a 64 bit integer register is architecturally defined to zero
extend the upper 32 bits". Also, a write to an XMM register performed by an AVX
instruction implicitly zeroes the upper 128 bits of the aliasing YMM register.
This patch adds a new method named clearsSuperRegisters to the MCInstrAnalysis
interface to help identify instructions that implicitly clear the upper portion
of a super-register. The rest of the patch teaches llvm-mca how to use that new
method to obtain the information, and update the register dependencies
accordingly.
I compared the kernels from tests clear-super-register-1.s and
clear-super-register-2.s against the output from perf on btver2. Previously
there was a large discrepancy between the estimated IPC and the measured IPC.
Now the differences are mostly in the noise.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D48225
llvm-svn: 335113
I did this a long time ago with a janky python script, but now
clang-format has built-in support for this. I fed clang-format every
line with a #include and let it re-sort things according to the precise
LLVM rules for include ordering baked into clang-format these days.
I've reverted a number of files where the results of sorting includes
isn't healthy. Either places where we have legacy code relying on
particular include ordering (where possible, I'll fix these separately)
or where we have particular formatting around #include lines that
I didn't want to disturb in this patch.
This patch is *entirely* mechanical. If you get merge conflicts or
anything, just ignore the changes in this patch and run clang-format
over your #include lines in the files.
Sorry for any noise here, but it is important to keep these things
stable. I was seeing an increasing number of patches with irrelevant
re-ordering of #include lines because clang-format was used. This patch
at least isolates that churn, makes it easy to skip when resolving
conflicts, and gets us to a clean baseline (again).
llvm-svn: 304787
This patch builds on some existing code to do CFG reconstruction from
a disassembled binary:
- MCModule represents the binary, and has a list of MCAtoms.
- MCAtom represents either disassembled instructions (MCTextAtom), or
contiguous data (MCDataAtom), and covers a specific range of addresses.
- MCBasicBlock and MCFunction form the reconstructed CFG. An MCBB is
backed by an MCTextAtom, and has the usual successors/predecessors.
- MCObjectDisassembler creates a module from an ObjectFile using a
disassembler. It first builds an atom for each section. It can also
construct the CFG, and this splits the text atoms into basic blocks.
MCModule and MCAtom were only sketched out; MCFunction and MCBB were
implemented under the experimental "-cfg" llvm-objdump -macho option.
This cleans them up for further use; llvm-objdump -d -cfg now generates
graphviz files for each function found in the binary.
In the future, MCObjectDisassembler may be the right place to do
"intelligent" disassembly: for example, handling constant islands is just
a matter of splitting the atom, using information that may be available
in the ObjectFile. Also, better initial atom formation than just using
sections is possible using symbols (and things like Mach-O's
function_starts load command).
This brings two minor regressions in llvm-objdump -macho -cfg:
- The printing of a relocation's referenced symbol.
- An annotation on loop BBs, i.e., which are their own successor.
Relocation printing is replaced by the MCSymbolizer; the basic CFG
annotation will be superseded by more related functionality.
llvm-svn: 182628
