1 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
2 // Random ideas for the X86 backend.
3 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
6 - Support for SSE4: http://www.intel.com/software/penryn
7 http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/Downloads/Intel%20SSE4%20Programming%20Reference.pdf
11 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
13 Add a MUL2U and MUL2S nodes to represent a multiply that returns both the
14 Hi and Lo parts (combination of MUL and MULH[SU] into one node). Add this to
15 X86, & make the dag combiner produce it when needed. This will eliminate one
16 imul from the code generated for:
18 long long test(long long X, long long Y) { return X*Y; }
20 by using the EAX result from the mul. We should add a similar node for
25 long long test(int X, int Y) { return (long long)X*Y; }
27 ... which should only be one imul instruction.
31 unsigned long long int t2(unsigned int a, unsigned int b) {
32 return (unsigned long long)a * b;
35 ... which should be one mul instruction.
38 This can be done with a custom expander, but it would be nice to move this to
41 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
43 CodeGen/X86/lea-3.ll:test3 should be a single LEA, not a shift/move. The X86
44 backend knows how to three-addressify this shift, but it appears the register
45 allocator isn't even asking it to do so in this case. We should investigate
46 why this isn't happening, it could have significant impact on other important
47 cases for X86 as well.
49 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
51 This should be one DIV/IDIV instruction, not a libcall:
53 unsigned test(unsigned long long X, unsigned Y) {
57 This can be done trivially with a custom legalizer. What about overflow
58 though? http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14224
60 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
62 Improvements to the multiply -> shift/add algorithm:
63 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-08/msg01590.html
65 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
67 Improve code like this (occurs fairly frequently, e.g. in LLVM):
68 long long foo(int x) { return 1LL << x; }
70 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg01109.html
71 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg01128.html
72 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg01136.html
74 Another useful one would be ~0ULL >> X and ~0ULL << X.
76 One better solution for 1LL << x is:
85 But that requires good 8-bit subreg support.
87 64-bit shifts (in general) expand to really bad code. Instead of using
88 cmovs, we should expand to a conditional branch like GCC produces.
90 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
93 _Bool f(_Bool a) { return a!=1; }
100 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
104 1. Dynamic programming based approach when compile time if not an
106 2. Code duplication (addressing mode) during isel.
107 3. Other ideas from "Register-Sensitive Selection, Duplication, and
108 Sequencing of Instructions".
109 4. Scheduling for reduced register pressure. E.g. "Minimum Register
110 Instruction Sequence Problem: Revisiting Optimal Code Generation for DAGs"
111 and other related papers.
112 http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/govindarajan01minimum.html
114 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
116 Should we promote i16 to i32 to avoid partial register update stalls?
118 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
120 Leave any_extend as pseudo instruction and hint to register
121 allocator. Delay codegen until post register allocation.
123 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
125 Count leading zeros and count trailing zeros:
127 int clz(int X) { return __builtin_clz(X); }
128 int ctz(int X) { return __builtin_ctz(X); }
130 $ gcc t.c -S -o - -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -masm=intel
132 bsr %eax, DWORD PTR [%esp+4]
136 bsf %eax, DWORD PTR [%esp+4]
139 however, check that these are defined for 0 and 32. Our intrinsics are, GCC's
142 Another example (use predsimplify to eliminate a select):
144 int foo (unsigned long j) {
146 return __builtin_ffs (j) - 1;
151 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
153 It appears icc use push for parameter passing. Need to investigate.
155 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
157 Only use inc/neg/not instructions on processors where they are faster than
158 add/sub/xor. They are slower on the P4 due to only updating some processor
161 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
163 The instruction selector sometimes misses folding a load into a compare. The
164 pattern is written as (cmp reg, (load p)). Because the compare isn't
165 commutative, it is not matched with the load on both sides. The dag combiner
166 should be made smart enough to cannonicalize the load into the RHS of a compare
167 when it can invert the result of the compare for free.
169 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
171 How about intrinsics? An example is:
172 *res = _mm_mulhi_epu16(*A, _mm_mul_epu32(*B, *C));
175 pmuludq (%eax), %xmm0
180 The transformation probably requires a X86 specific pass or a DAG combiner
181 target specific hook.
183 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
185 In many cases, LLVM generates code like this:
194 on some processors (which ones?), it is more efficient to do this:
203 Doing this correctly is tricky though, as the xor clobbers the flags.
205 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
207 We should generate bts/btr/etc instructions on targets where they are cheap or
208 when codesize is important. e.g., for:
210 void setbit(int *target, int bit) {
211 *target |= (1 << bit);
213 void clearbit(int *target, int bit) {
214 *target &= ~(1 << bit);
217 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
219 Instead of the following for memset char*, 1, 10:
221 movl $16843009, 4(%edx)
222 movl $16843009, (%edx)
225 It might be better to generate
232 when we can spare a register. It reduces code size.
234 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
236 Evaluate what the best way to codegen sdiv X, (2^C) is. For X/8, we currently
253 GCC knows several different ways to codegen it, one of which is this:
263 which is probably slower, but it's interesting at least :)
265 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
267 The first BB of this code:
271 %V = call bool %foo()
272 br bool %V, label %T, label %F
289 It would be better to emit "cmp %al, 1" than a xor and test.
291 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
293 Enable X86InstrInfo::convertToThreeAddress().
295 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
297 We are currently lowering large (1MB+) memmove/memcpy to rep/stosl and rep/movsl
298 We should leave these as libcalls for everything over a much lower threshold,
299 since libc is hand tuned for medium and large mem ops (avoiding RFO for large
300 stores, TLB preheating, etc)
302 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
304 Optimize this into something reasonable:
305 x * copysign(1.0, y) * copysign(1.0, z)
307 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
309 Optimize copysign(x, *y) to use an integer load from y.
311 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
313 %X = weak global int 0
316 %N = cast int %N to uint
317 %tmp.24 = setgt int %N, 0
318 br bool %tmp.24, label %no_exit, label %return
321 %indvar = phi uint [ 0, %entry ], [ %indvar.next, %no_exit ]
322 %i.0.0 = cast uint %indvar to int
323 volatile store int %i.0.0, int* %X
324 %indvar.next = add uint %indvar, 1
325 %exitcond = seteq uint %indvar.next, %N
326 br bool %exitcond, label %return, label %no_exit
340 jl LBB_foo_4 # return
341 LBB_foo_1: # no_exit.preheader
344 movl L_X$non_lazy_ptr, %edx
348 jne LBB_foo_2 # no_exit
349 LBB_foo_3: # return.loopexit
353 We should hoist "movl L_X$non_lazy_ptr, %edx" out of the loop after
354 remateralization is implemented. This can be accomplished with 1) a target
355 dependent LICM pass or 2) makeing SelectDAG represent the whole function.
357 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
359 The following tests perform worse with LSR:
361 lambda, siod, optimizer-eval, ackermann, hash2, nestedloop, strcat, and Treesor.
363 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
365 We are generating far worse code than gcc:
371 for (i = 0; i < N; i++) { X = i; Y = i*4; }
374 LBB1_1: #bb.preheader
378 movl L_X$non_lazy_ptr, %esi
382 movl L_Y$non_lazy_ptr, %edi
392 movl L_X$non_lazy_ptr-"L00000000001$pb"(%ebx), %esi
393 movl L_Y$non_lazy_ptr-"L00000000001$pb"(%ebx), %ecx
396 leal 0(,%edx,4), %eax
404 1. Lack of post regalloc LICM.
405 2. LSR unable to reused IV for a different type (i16 vs. i32) even though
406 the cast would be free.
408 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
410 Teach the coalescer to coalesce vregs of different register classes. e.g. FR32 /
413 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
421 Obviously it would have been better for the first mov (or any op) to store
422 directly %esp[0] if there are no other uses.
424 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
426 Adding to the list of cmp / test poor codegen issues:
428 int test(__m128 *A, __m128 *B) {
429 if (_mm_comige_ss(*A, *B))
449 Note the setae, movzbl, cmpl, cmove can be replaced with a single cmovae. There
450 are a number of issues. 1) We are introducing a setcc between the result of the
451 intrisic call and select. 2) The intrinsic is expected to produce a i32 value
452 so a any extend (which becomes a zero extend) is added.
454 We probably need some kind of target DAG combine hook to fix this.
456 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
458 We generate significantly worse code for this than GCC:
459 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21150
460 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=8701
462 There is also one case we do worse on PPC.
464 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
466 If shorter, we should use things like:
471 The former can also be used when the two-addressy nature of the 'and' would
472 require a copy to be inserted (in X86InstrInfo::convertToThreeAddress).
474 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
478 typedef struct pair { float A, B; } pair;
479 void pairtest(pair P, float *FP) {
483 We currently generate this code with llvmgcc4:
495 we should be able to generate:
503 The issue is that llvmgcc4 is forcing the struct to memory, then passing it as
504 integer chunks. It does this so that structs like {short,short} are passed in
505 a single 32-bit integer stack slot. We should handle the safe cases above much
506 nicer, while still handling the hard cases.
508 While true in general, in this specific case we could do better by promoting
509 load int + bitcast to float -> load fload. This basically needs alignment info,
510 the code is already implemented (but disabled) in dag combine).
512 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
514 Another instruction selector deficiency:
517 %tmp = load int (int)** %foo
518 %tmp = tail call int %tmp( int 3 )
524 movl L_foo$non_lazy_ptr, %eax
530 The current isel scheme will not allow the load to be folded in the call since
531 the load's chain result is read by the callseq_start.
533 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
535 Don't forget to find a way to squash noop truncates in the JIT environment.
537 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
539 Implement anyext in the same manner as truncate that would allow them to be
542 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
544 How about implementing truncate / anyext as a property of machine instruction
545 operand? i.e. Print as 32-bit super-class register / 16-bit sub-class register.
546 Do this for the cases where a truncate / anyext is guaranteed to be eliminated.
547 For IA32 that is truncate from 32 to 16 and anyext from 16 to 32.
549 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
559 imull $3, 4(%esp), %eax
561 Perhaps this is what we really should generate is? Is imull three or four
562 cycles? Note: ICC generates this:
564 leal (%eax,%eax,2), %eax
566 The current instruction priority is based on pattern complexity. The former is
567 more "complex" because it folds a load so the latter will not be emitted.
569 Perhaps we should use AddedComplexity to give LEA32r a higher priority? We
570 should always try to match LEA first since the LEA matching code does some
571 estimate to determine whether the match is profitable.
573 However, if we care more about code size, then imull is better. It's two bytes
574 shorter than movl + leal.
576 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
578 Implement CTTZ, CTLZ with bsf and bsr.
580 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
582 It appears gcc place string data with linkonce linkage in
583 .section __TEXT,__const_coal,coalesced instead of
584 .section __DATA,__const_coal,coalesced.
585 Take a look at darwin.h, there are other Darwin assembler directives that we
588 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
590 int %foo(int* %a, int %t) {
594 cond_true: ; preds = %cond_true, %entry
595 %x.0.0 = phi int [ 0, %entry ], [ %tmp9, %cond_true ]
596 %t_addr.0.0 = phi int [ %t, %entry ], [ %tmp7, %cond_true ]
597 %tmp2 = getelementptr int* %a, int %x.0.0
598 %tmp3 = load int* %tmp2 ; <int> [#uses=1]
599 %tmp5 = add int %t_addr.0.0, %x.0.0 ; <int> [#uses=1]
600 %tmp7 = add int %tmp5, %tmp3 ; <int> [#uses=2]
601 %tmp9 = add int %x.0.0, 1 ; <int> [#uses=2]
602 %tmp = setgt int %tmp9, 39 ; <bool> [#uses=1]
603 br bool %tmp, label %bb12, label %cond_true
605 bb12: ; preds = %cond_true
609 is pessimized by -loop-reduce and -indvars
611 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
613 u32 to float conversion improvement:
615 float uint32_2_float( unsigned u ) {
616 float fl = (int) (u & 0xffff);
617 float fh = (int) (u >> 16);
622 00000000 subl $0x04,%esp
623 00000003 movl 0x08(%esp,1),%eax
624 00000007 movl %eax,%ecx
625 00000009 shrl $0x10,%ecx
626 0000000c cvtsi2ss %ecx,%xmm0
627 00000010 andl $0x0000ffff,%eax
628 00000015 cvtsi2ss %eax,%xmm1
629 00000019 mulss 0x00000078,%xmm0
630 00000021 addss %xmm1,%xmm0
631 00000025 movss %xmm0,(%esp,1)
632 0000002a flds (%esp,1)
633 0000002d addl $0x04,%esp
636 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
638 When using fastcc abi, align stack slot of argument of type double on 8 byte
639 boundary to improve performance.
641 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
645 int f(int a, int b) {
646 if (a == 4 || a == 6)
658 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
660 GCC's ix86_expand_int_movcc function (in i386.c) has a ton of interesting
661 simplifications for integer "x cmp y ? a : b". For example, instead of:
664 void f(int X, int Y) {
690 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
692 Currently we don't have elimination of redundant stack manipulations. Consider
697 call fastcc void %test1( )
698 call fastcc void %test2( sbyte* cast (void ()* %test1 to sbyte*) )
702 declare fastcc void %test1()
704 declare fastcc void %test2(sbyte*)
707 This currently compiles to:
717 The add\sub pair is really unneeded here.
719 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
721 We currently compile sign_extend_inreg into two shifts:
724 return (long)(signed char)X;
741 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
743 Consider the expansion of:
745 uint %test3(uint %X) {
746 %tmp1 = rem uint %X, 255
750 Currently it compiles to:
753 movl $2155905153, %ecx
759 This could be "reassociated" into:
761 movl $2155905153, %eax
765 to avoid the copy. In fact, the existing two-address stuff would do this
766 except that mul isn't a commutative 2-addr instruction. I guess this has
767 to be done at isel time based on the #uses to mul?
769 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
771 Make sure the instruction which starts a loop does not cross a cacheline
772 boundary. This requires knowning the exact length of each machine instruction.
773 That is somewhat complicated, but doable. Example 256.bzip2:
775 In the new trace, the hot loop has an instruction which crosses a cacheline
776 boundary. In addition to potential cache misses, this can't help decoding as I
777 imagine there has to be some kind of complicated decoder reset and realignment
778 to grab the bytes from the next cacheline.
780 532 532 0x3cfc movb (1809(%esp, %esi), %bl <<<--- spans 2 64 byte lines
781 942 942 0x3d03 movl %dh, (1809(%esp, %esi)
782 937 937 0x3d0a incl %esi
783 3 3 0x3d0b cmpb %bl, %dl
784 27 27 0x3d0d jnz 0x000062db <main+11707>
786 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
788 In c99 mode, the preprocessor doesn't like assembly comments like #TRUNCATE.
790 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
792 This could be a single 16-bit load.
795 if ((p[0] == 1) & (p[1] == 2)) return 1;
799 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
801 We should inline lrintf and probably other libc functions.
803 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
805 Start using the flags more. For example, compile:
807 int add_zf(int *x, int y, int a, int b) {
831 int add_zf(int *x, int y, int a, int b) {
855 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
859 int foo(double X) { return isnan(X); }
870 the pxor is not needed, we could compare the value against itself.
872 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
874 These two functions have identical effects:
876 unsigned int f(unsigned int i, unsigned int n) {++i; if (i == n) ++i; return i;}
877 unsigned int f2(unsigned int i, unsigned int n) {++i; i += i == n; return i;}
879 We currently compile them to:
887 jne LBB1_2 #UnifiedReturnBlock
891 LBB1_2: #UnifiedReturnBlock
901 leal 1(%ecx,%eax), %eax
904 both of which are inferior to GCC's:
922 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
930 is currently compiled to:
941 It would be better to produce:
950 This can be applied to any no-return function call that takes no arguments etc.
951 Alternatively, the stack save/restore logic could be shrink-wrapped, producing
962 Both are useful in different situations. Finally, it could be shrink-wrapped
963 and tail called, like this:
970 pop %eax # realign stack.
973 Though this probably isn't worth it.
975 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
977 We need to teach the codegen to convert two-address INC instructions to LEA
978 when the flags are dead. For example, on X86-64, compile:
980 int foo(int A, int B) {
999 ;; X's live range extends beyond the shift, so the register allocator
1000 ;; cannot coalesce it with Y. Because of this, a copy needs to be
1001 ;; emitted before the shift to save the register value before it is
1002 ;; clobbered. However, this copy is not needed if the register
1003 ;; allocator turns the shift into an LEA. This also occurs for ADD.
1005 ; Check that the shift gets turned into an LEA.
1006 ; RUN: llvm-upgrade < %s | llvm-as | llc -march=x86 -x86-asm-syntax=intel | \
1007 ; RUN: not grep {mov E.X, E.X}
1009 %G = external global int
1011 int %test1(int %X, int %Y) {
1013 volatile store int %Y, int* %G
1014 volatile store int %Z, int* %G
1018 int %test2(int %X) {
1019 %Z = add int %X, 1 ;; inc
1020 volatile store int %Z, int* %G
1024 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
1027 #include <xmmintrin.h>
1028 unsigned test(float f) {
1029 return _mm_cvtsi128_si32( (__m128i) _mm_set_ss( f ));
1034 movss 4(%esp), %xmm0
1038 it should compile to a move from the stack slot directly into eax. DAGCombine
1039 has this xform, but it is currently disabled until the alignment fields of
1040 the load/store nodes are trustworthy.
1042 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
1044 Sometimes it is better to codegen subtractions from a constant (e.g. 7-x) with
1045 a neg instead of a sub instruction. Consider:
1047 int test(char X) { return 7-X; }
1049 we currently produce:
1052 movsbl 4(%esp), %ecx
1056 We would use one fewer register if codegen'd as:
1058 movsbl 4(%esp), %eax
1063 Note that this isn't beneficial if the load can be folded into the sub. In
1064 this case, we want a sub:
1066 int test(int X) { return 7-X; }
1072 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
1077 We get an implicit def on the undef side. If the phi is spilled, we then get:
1081 It should be possible to teach the x86 backend to "fold" the store into the
1082 implicitdef, which just deletes the implicit def.
1084 These instructions should go away:
1086 movaps %xmm1, 192(%esp)
1087 movaps %xmm1, 224(%esp)
1088 movaps %xmm1, 176(%esp)
1090 //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
1092 This is a "commutable two-address" register coallescing deficiency:
1094 define <4 x float> @test1(<4 x float> %V) {
1096 %tmp8 = shufflevector <4 x float> %V, <4 x float> undef, <4 x i32> < i32 3, i32 2, i32 1, i32 0 > ; <<4 x float>> [#uses=1]
1097 %add = add <4 x float> %tmp8, %V ; <<4 x float>> [#uses=1]
1098 ret <4 x float> %add
1104 pshufd $27, %xmm0, %xmm1
1112 pshufd $27, %xmm0, %xmm1