The previous PBQP solver was very robust but consumed a lot of memory,
performed a lot of redundant computation, and contained some unnecessarily tight
coupling that prevented experimentation with novel solution techniques. This new
solver is an attempt to address these shortcomings.
Important/interesting changes:
1) The domain-independent PBQP solver class, HeuristicSolverImpl, is gone.
It is replaced by a register allocation specific solver, PBQP::RegAlloc::Solver
(see RegAllocSolver.h).
The optimal reduction rules and the backpropagation algorithm have been extracted
into stand-alone functions (see ReductionRules.h), which can be used to build
domain specific PBQP solvers. This provides many more opportunities for
domain-specific knowledge to inform the PBQP solvers' decisions. In theory this
should allow us to generate better solutions. In practice, we can at least test
out ideas now.
As a side benefit, I believe the new solver is more readable than the old one.
2) The solver type is now a template parameter of the PBQP graph.
This allows the graph to notify the solver of any modifications made (e.g. by
domain independent rules) without the overhead of a virtual call. It also allows
the solver to supply policy information to the graph (see below).
3) Significantly reduced memory overhead.
Memory management policy is now an explicit property of the PBQP graph (via
the CostAllocator typedef on the graph's solver template argument). Because PBQP
graphs for register allocation tend to contain many redundant instances of
single values (E.g. the value representing an interference constraint between
GPRs), the new RASolver class uses a uniquing scheme. This massively reduces
memory consumption for large register allocation problems. For example, looking
at the largest interference graph in each of the SPEC2006 benchmarks (the
largest graph will always set the memory consumption high-water mark for PBQP),
the average memory reduction for the PBQP costs was 400x. That's times, not
percent. The highest was 1400x. Yikes. So - this is fixed.
"PBQP: No longer feasting upon every last byte of your RAM".
Minor details:
- Fully C++11'd. Never copy-construct another vector/matrix!
- Cute tricks with cost metadata: Metadata that is derived solely from cost
matrices/vectors is attached directly to the cost instances themselves. That way
if you unique the costs you never have to recompute the metadata. 400x less
memory means 400x less cost metadata (re)computation.
Special thanks to Arnaud de Grandmaison, who has been the source of much
encouragement, and of many very useful test cases.
This new solver forms the basis for future work, of which there's plenty to do.
I will be adding TODO notes shortly.
- Lang.
llvm-svn: 202551
CodeGenPrepare uses extensively TargetLowering which is part of libLLVMCodeGen.
This is a layer violation which would introduce eventually a dependence on
CodeGen in ScalarOpts.
Move CodeGenPrepare into libLLVMCodeGen to avoid that.
Follow-up of <rdar://problem/15519855>
llvm-svn: 201912
r201608 made llvm corretly handle private globals with MachO. r201622 fixed
a bug in it and r201624 and r201625 were changes for using private linkage,
assuming that llvm would do the right thing.
They all got reverted because r201608 introduced a crash in LTO. This patch
includes a fix for that. The issue was that TargetLoweringObjectFile now has
to be initialized before we can mangle names of private globals. This is
trivially true during the normal codegen pipeline (the asm printer does it),
but LTO has to do it manually.
llvm-svn: 201700
The same code (~20 lines) for initializing a TargetOptions object from CodeGen
cmdline flags is duplicated 4 times in 4 different tools. This patch moves it
into a utility function.
Since the CodeGen/CommandFlags.h file defines cl::opt flags in a header, it's
a bit of a touchy situation because we should only link them into tools. So this
patch puts the init function in the header.
llvm-svn: 201699
The IR
@foo = private constant i32 42
is valid, but before this patch we would produce an invalid MachO from it. It
was invalid because it would use an L label in a section where the liker needs
the labels in order to atomize it.
One way of fixing it would be to just reject this IR in the backend, but that
would not be very front end friendly.
What this patch does is use an 'l' prefix in sections that we know the linker
requires symbols for atomizing them. This allows frontends to just use
private and not worry about which sections they go to or how the linker handles
them.
One small issue with this strategy is that now a symbol name depends on the
section, which is not available before codegen. This is not a problem in
practice. The reason is that it only happens with private linkage, which will
be ignored by the non codegen users (llvm-nm and llvm-ar).
llvm-svn: 201608
These methods normally call each other and it is really annoying if the
arguments are in different order. The more common rule was that the arguments
specific to call are first (GV, Encoding, Suffix) and the auxiliary objects
(Mang, TM) come after. This patch changes the exceptions.
llvm-svn: 201044
According to the AAPCS, when a CPRC is allocated to the stack, all other
VFP registers should be marked as unavailable.
I have also modified the rules for allocating non-CPRCs to the stack, to make
it more explicit that all GPRs must be made unavailable. I cannot think of a
case where the old version would produce incorrect answers, so there is no test
for this.
llvm-svn: 200970
In a previous commit (r199818) we added a const_cast to an existing
subtarget info instead of creating a new one so that we could reuse
it when creating the TargetAsmParser for parsing inline assembly.
This cast was necessary because we needed to reuse the existing STI
to avoid generating incorrect code when the inline asm contained
mode-switching directives (e.g. .code 16).
The root cause of the failure was that there was an implicit sharing
of the STI between the parser and the MCCodeEmitter. To fix a
different but related issue, we now explicitly pass the STI to the
MCCodeEmitter (see commits r200345-r200351).
The const_cast is no longer necessary and we can now create a fresh
STI for the inline asm parser to use.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2709
llvm-svn: 200929
This commit only handles IfConvertTriangle. To update edge weights
of a successor, one interface is added to MachineBasicBlock:
/// Set successor weight of a given iterator.
setSuccWeight(succ_iterator I, uint32_t weight)
An existing testing case test/CodeGen/Thumb2/v8_IT_5.ll is updated,
since we now correctly update the edge weights, the cold block
is placed at the end of the function and we jump to the cold block.
llvm-svn: 200428
Before this patch we used getIntImmCost from TargetTransformInfo to determine if
a load of a constant should be converted to just a constant, but the threshold
for this was set to an arbitrary value. This value works well for the two
targets (X86 and ARM) that implement this target-hook, but it isn't
target-independent at all.
Now targets have the possibility to decide directly if this optimization should
be performed. The default value is set to false to preserve the current
behavior. The target hook has been moved to TargetLowering, which removed the
last use and need of TargetTransformInfo in SelectionDAG.
llvm-svn: 200271
code to see if we're emitting a function into a non-default
text section. This is still a less-than-ideal solution, but more
contained than r199871 to determine whether or not we're emitting
code into an array of comdat sections.
llvm-svn: 200269
This commit caused -Woverloaded-virtual warnings. The two new
TargetTransformInfo::getIntImmCost functions were only added to the superclass,
and to the X86 subclass. The other targets were not updated, and the
warning highlighted this by pointing out that e.g. ARMTTI::getIntImmCost was
hiding the two new getIntImmCost variants.
We could pacify the warning by adding "using TargetTransformInfo::getIntImmCost"
to the various subclasses, or turning it off, but I suspect that it's wrong to
leave the functions unimplemnted in those targets. The default implementations
return TCC_Free, which I don't think is right e.g. for ARM.
llvm-svn: 200058
Retry commit r200022 with a fix for the build bot errors. Constant expressions
have (unlike instructions) module scope use lists and therefore may have users
in different functions. The fix is to simply ignore these out-of-function uses.
llvm-svn: 200034
This pass identifies expensive constants to hoist and coalesces them to
better prepare it for SelectionDAG-based code generation. This works around the
limitations of the basic-block-at-a-time approach.
First it scans all instructions for integer constants and calculates its
cost. If the constant can be folded into the instruction (the cost is
TCC_Free) or the cost is just a simple operation (TCC_BASIC), then we don't
consider it expensive and leave it alone. This is the default behavior and
the default implementation of getIntImmCost will always return TCC_Free.
If the cost is more than TCC_BASIC, then the integer constant can't be folded
into the instruction and it might be beneficial to hoist the constant.
Similar constants are coalesced to reduce register pressure and
materialization code.
When a constant is hoisted, it is also hidden behind a bitcast to force it to
be live-out of the basic block. Otherwise the constant would be just
duplicated and each basic block would have its own copy in the SelectionDAG.
The SelectionDAG recognizes such constants as opaque and doesn't perform
certain transformations on them, which would create a new expensive constant.
This optimization is only applied to integer constants in instructions and
simple (this means not nested) constant cast experessions. For example:
%0 = load i64* inttoptr (i64 big_constant to i64*)
Reviewed by Eric
llvm-svn: 200022
There is no inline asm in a .s file. Therefore, there should be no logic to
handle it in the streamer. Inline asm only exists in bitcode files, so the
logic can live in the (long misnamed) AsmPrinter class.
llvm-svn: 200011
e.g. linkonce, to TargetMachine and set it when we've done so
for ELF targets currently. This involved making TargetMachine
non-const in a TLOF use and propagating that change around - I'm
open to other ideas.
This will be used in a future commit to handle emitting debug
information with ranges.
llvm-svn: 199871
StackProtector keeps a ValueMap of alloca instructions to layout kind tags for
use by PEI and other later passes. When stack coloring replaces one alloca with
a bitcast to another one, the key replacement in this map does not work.
Instead, provide an interface to manage this updating directly. This seems like
an improvement over the old behavior, where the layout map would not get
updated at all when the stack slots were merged. In practice, however, there is
likely no observable difference because PEI only did anything special with
'large array' kinds, and if one large array is merged with another, than the
replacement should already have been a large array.
This is an attempt to unbreak the clang-x86_64-darwin11-RA builder.
llvm-svn: 199684
promotion code, Tablegen will now select FPExt for floating point promotions
(previously it had returned AExt, which is not valid for floating point types).
Any out-of-tree targets that were relying on AExt being returned for FP
promotions will need to update their code check for FPExt instead.
llvm-svn: 199252
This commit teaches DAG to reassociate vector ops, which in turn enables
constant folding of vector op chains that appear later on during custom lowering
and DAG combine.
Reviewed by Andrea Di Biagio
llvm-svn: 199135
can be used by both the new pass manager and the old.
This removes it from any of the virtual mess of the pass interfaces and
lets it derive cleanly from the DominatorTreeBase<> template. In turn,
tons of boilerplate interface can be nuked and it turns into a very
straightforward extension of the base DominatorTree interface.
The old analysis pass is now a simple wrapper. The names and style of
this split should match the split between CallGraph and
CallGraphWrapperPass. All of the users of DominatorTree have been
updated to match using many of the same tricks as with CallGraph. The
goal is that the common type remains the resulting DominatorTree rather
than the pass. This will make subsequent work toward the new pass
manager significantly easier.
Also in numerous places things became cleaner because I switched from
re-running the pass (!!! mid way through some other passes run!!!) to
directly recomputing the domtree.
llvm-svn: 199104
trees into the Support library.
These are all expressed in terms of the generic GraphTraits and CFG,
with no reliance on any concrete IR types. Putting them in support
clarifies that and makes the fact that the static analyzer in Clang uses
them much more sane. When moving the Dominators.h file into the IR
library I claimed that this was the right home for it but not something
I planned to work on. Oops.
So why am I doing this? It happens to be one step toward breaking the
requirement that IR verification can only be performed from inside of
a pass context, which completely blocks the implementation of
verification for the new pass manager infrastructure. Fixing it will
also allow removing the concept of the "preverify" step (WTF???) and
allow the verifier to cleanly flag functions which fail verification in
a way that precludes even computing dominance information. Currently,
that results in a fatal error even when you ask the verifier to not
fatally error. It's awesome like that.
The yak shaving will continue...
llvm-svn: 199095
directory. These passes are already defined in the IR library, and it
doesn't make any sense to have the headers in Analysis.
Long term, I think there is going to be a much better way to divide
these matters. The dominators code should be fully separated into the
abstract graph algorithm and have that put in Support where it becomes
obvious that evn Clang's CFGBlock's can use it. Then the verifier can
manually construct dominance information from the Support-driven
interface while the Analysis library can provide a pass which both
caches, reconstructs, and supports a nice update API.
But those are very long term, and so I don't want to leave the really
confusing structure until that day arrives.
llvm-svn: 199082
operand into the Value interface just like the core print method is.
That gives a more conistent organization to the IR printing interfaces
-- they are all attached to the IR objects themselves. Also, update all
the users.
This removes the 'Writer.h' header which contained only a single function
declaration.
llvm-svn: 198836
subsequent changes are easier to review. About to fix some layering
issues, and wanted to separate out the necessary churn.
Also comment and sink the include of "Windows.h" in three .inc files to
match the usage in Memory.inc.
llvm-svn: 198685
The greedy register allocator tries to split a live-range around each
instruction where it is used or defined to relax the constraints on the entire
live-range (this is a last chance split before falling back to spill).
The goal is to have a big live-range that is unconstrained (i.e., that can use
the largest legal register class) and several small local live-range that carry
the constraints implied by each instruction.
E.g.,
Let csti be the constraints on operation i.
V1=
op1 V1(cst1)
op2 V1(cst2)
V1 live-range is constrained on the intersection of cst1 and cst2.
tryInstructionSplit relaxes those constraints by aggressively splitting each
def/use point:
V1=
V2 = V1
V3 = V2
op1 V3(cst1)
V4 = V2
op2 V4(cst2)
Because of how the coalescer infrastructure works, each new variable (V3, V4)
that is alive at the same time as V1 (or its copy, here V2) interfere with V1.
Thus, we end up with an uncoalescable copy for each split point.
To make tryInstructionSplit less aggressive, we check if the split point
actually relaxes the constraints on the whole live-range. If it does not, we do
not insert it.
Indeed, it will not help the global allocation problem:
- V1 will have the same constraints.
- V1 will have the same interference + possibly the newly added split variable
VS.
- VS will produce an uncoalesceable copy if alive at the same time as V1.
<rdar://problem/15570057>
llvm-svn: 198369
