//===- README.txt - Notes for improving PowerPC-specific code gen ---------===//
TODO:
-* gpr0 allocation
-* implement do-loop -> bdnz transform
+* lmw/stmw pass a la arm load store optimizer for prolog/epilog
===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-Support 'update' load/store instructions. These are cracked on the G5, but are
-still a codesize win.
+This code:
+
+unsigned add32carry(unsigned sum, unsigned x) {
+ unsigned z = sum + x;
+ if (sum + x < x)
+ z++;
+ return z;
+}
+
+Should compile to something like:
+
+ addc r3,r3,r4
+ addze r3,r3
+
+instead we get:
+
+ add r3, r4, r3
+ cmplw cr7, r3, r4
+ mfcr r4 ; 1
+ rlwinm r4, r4, 29, 31, 31
+ add r3, r3, r4
+
+Ick.
===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-Compile:
-
-void foo(int *P) {
- if (P) *P = 0;
-}
-
-into:
-
-_foo:
- cmpwi cr0,r3,0
- beqlr cr0
- li r0,0
- stw r0,0(r3)
- blr
-
-This is effectively a simple form of predication.
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
-Teach the .td file to pattern match PPC::BR_COND to appropriate bc variant, so
-we don't have to always run the branch selector for small functions.
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
Lump the constant pool for each function into ONE pic object, and reference
pieces of it as offsets from the start. For functions like this (contrived
to have lots of constants obviously):
Note that this (and the static variable version) is discussed here for GCC:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-02/msg00133.html
+Here's another example (the sgn function):
+double testf(double a) {
+ return a == 0.0 ? 0.0 : (a > 0.0 ? 1.0 : -1.0);
+}
+
+it produces a BB like this:
+LBB1_1: ; cond_true
+ lis r2, ha16(LCPI1_0)
+ lfs f0, lo16(LCPI1_0)(r2)
+ lis r2, ha16(LCPI1_1)
+ lis r3, ha16(LCPI1_2)
+ lfs f2, lo16(LCPI1_2)(r3)
+ lfs f3, lo16(LCPI1_1)(r2)
+ fsub f0, f0, f1
+ fsel f1, f0, f2, f3
+ blr
+
===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
PIC Code Gen IPO optimization:
===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-Implement Newton-Rhapson method for improving estimate instructions to the
-correct accuracy, and implementing divide as multiply by reciprocal when it has
-more than one use. Itanium will want this too.
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
-Compile this:
-
-int %f1(int %a, int %b) {
- %tmp.1 = and int %a, 15 ; <int> [#uses=1]
- %tmp.3 = and int %b, 240 ; <int> [#uses=1]
- %tmp.4 = or int %tmp.3, %tmp.1 ; <int> [#uses=1]
- ret int %tmp.4
-}
-
-without a copy. We make this currently:
-
-_f1:
- rlwinm r2, r4, 0, 24, 27
- rlwimi r2, r3, 0, 28, 31
- or r3, r2, r2
- blr
-
-The two-addr pass or RA needs to learn when it is profitable to commute an
-instruction to avoid a copy AFTER the 2-addr instruction. The 2-addr pass
-currently only commutes to avoid inserting a copy BEFORE the two addr instr.
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
-Compile offsets from allocas:
-
-int *%test() {
- %X = alloca { int, int }
- %Y = getelementptr {int,int}* %X, int 0, uint 1
- ret int* %Y
-}
-
-into a single add, not two:
-
-_test:
- addi r2, r1, -8
- addi r3, r2, 4
- blr
-
---> important for C++.
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
-No loads or stores of the constants should be needed:
+Darwin Stub removal:
-struct foo { double X, Y; };
-void xxx(struct foo F);
-void bar() { struct foo R = { 1.0, 2.0 }; xxx(R); }
+We still generate calls to foo$stub, and stubs, on Darwin. This is not
+necessary when building with the Leopard (10.5) or later linker, as stubs are
+generated by ld when necessary. Parameterizing this based on the deployment
+target (-mmacosx-version-min) is probably enough. x86-32 does this right, see
+its logic.
===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
Fix Darwin FP-In-Integer Registers ABI
Darwin passes doubles in structures in integer registers, which is very very
-bad. Add something like a BIT_CONVERT to LLVM, then do an i-p transformation
-that percolates these things out of functions.
+bad. Add something like a BITCAST to LLVM, then do an i-p transformation that
+percolates these things out of functions.
Check out how horrible this is:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-10/msg01036.html
===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-Compile this:
-
-int foo(int a) {
- int b = (a < 8);
- if (b) {
- return b * 3; // ignore the fact that this is always 3.
- } else {
- return 2;
- }
-}
-
-into something not this:
-
-_foo:
-1) cmpwi cr7, r3, 8
- mfcr r2, 1
- rlwinm r2, r2, 29, 31, 31
-1) cmpwi cr0, r3, 7
- bgt cr0, LBB1_2 ; UnifiedReturnBlock
-LBB1_1: ; then
- rlwinm r2, r2, 0, 31, 31
- mulli r3, r2, 3
- blr
-LBB1_2: ; UnifiedReturnBlock
- li r3, 2
- blr
-
-In particular, the two compares (marked 1) could be shared by reversing one.
-This could be done in the dag combiner, by swapping a BR_CC when a SETCC of the
-same operands (but backwards) exists. In this case, this wouldn't save us
-anything though, because the compares still wouldn't be shared.
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
-The legalizer should lower this:
-
-bool %test(ulong %x) {
- %tmp = setlt ulong %x, 4294967296
- ret bool %tmp
-}
-
-into "if x.high == 0", not:
-
-_test:
- addi r2, r3, -1
- cntlzw r2, r2
- cntlzw r3, r3
- srwi r2, r2, 5
- srwi r4, r3, 5
- li r3, 0
- cmpwi cr0, r2, 0
- bne cr0, LBB1_2 ;
-LBB1_1:
- or r3, r4, r4
-LBB1_2:
- blr
-
-noticed in 2005-05-11-Popcount-ffs-fls.c.
-
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
-We should custom expand setcc instead of pretending that we have it. That
-would allow us to expose the access of the crbit after the mfcr, allowing
-that access to be trivially folded into other ops. A simple example:
-
-int foo(int a, int b) { return (a < b) << 4; }
-
-compiles into:
-
-_foo:
- cmpw cr7, r3, r4
- mfcr r2, 1
- rlwinm r2, r2, 29, 31, 31
- slwi r3, r2, 4
- blr
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
Fold add and sub with constant into non-extern, non-weak addresses so this:
static int a;
===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-We generate really bad code for this:
-
-int f(signed char *a, _Bool b, _Bool c) {
- signed char t = 0;
- if (b) t = *a;
- if (c) *a = t;
-}
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
-This:
-int test(unsigned *P) { return *P >> 24; }
-
-Should compile to:
-
-_test:
- lbz r3,0(r3)
- blr
-
-not:
-
-_test:
- lwz r2, 0(r3)
- srwi r3, r2, 24
- blr
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
-On the G5, logical CR operations are more expensive in their three
-address form: ops that read/write the same register are half as expensive as
-those that read from two registers that are different from their destination.
-
-We should model this with two separate instructions. The isel should generate
-the "two address" form of the instructions. When the register allocator
-detects that it needs to insert a copy due to the two-addresness of the CR
-logical op, it will invoke PPCInstrInfo::convertToThreeAddress. At this point
-we can convert to the "three address" instruction, to save code space.
-
-This only matters when we start generating cr logical ops.
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
We should compile these two functions to the same thing:
#include <stdlib.h>
===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
+PR5945: This:
+define i32 @clamp0g(i32 %a) {
+entry:
+ %cmp = icmp slt i32 %a, 0
+ %sel = select i1 %cmp, i32 0, i32 %a
+ ret i32 %sel
+}
+
+Is compile to this with the PowerPC (32-bit) backend:
+
+_clamp0g:
+ cmpwi cr0, r3, 0
+ li r2, 0
+ blt cr0, LBB1_2
+; BB#1: ; %entry
+ mr r2, r3
+LBB1_2: ; %entry
+ mr r3, r2
+ blr
+
+This could be reduced to the much simpler:
+
+_clamp0g:
+ srawi r2, r3, 31
+ andc r3, r3, r2
+ blr
+
+===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
+
int foo(int N, int ***W, int **TK, int X) {
int t, i;
===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-float foo(float X) { return (int)(X); }
-
-Currently produces:
-
-_foo:
- fctiwz f0, f1
- stfd f0, -8(r1)
- lwz r2, -4(r1)
- extsw r2, r2
- std r2, -16(r1)
- lfd f0, -16(r1)
- fcfid f0, f0
- frsp f1, f0
- blr
-
-We could use a target dag combine to turn the lwz/extsw into an lwa when the
-lwz has a single use. Since LWA is cracked anyway, this would be a codesize
-win only.
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
We generate ugly code for this:
void func(unsigned int *ret, float dx, float dy, float dz, float dw) {
===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-Complete the signed i32 to FP conversion code using 64-bit registers
-transformation, good for PI. See PPCISelLowering.cpp, this comment:
-
- // FIXME: disable this lowered code. This generates 64-bit register values,
- // and we don't model the fact that the top part is clobbered by calls. We
- // need to flag these together so that the value isn't live across a call.
- //setOperationAction(ISD::SINT_TO_FP, MVT::i32, Custom);
-
-Also, if the registers are spilled to the stack, we have to ensure that all
-64-bits of them are save/restored, otherwise we will miscompile the code. It
-sounds like we need to get the 64-bit register classes going.
-
-===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
-
-%struct.B = type { ubyte, [3 x ubyte] }
+%struct.B = type { i8, [3 x i8] }
-void %foo(%struct.B* %b) {
+define void @bar(%struct.B* %b) {
entry:
- %tmp = cast %struct.B* %b to uint* ; <uint*> [#uses=1]
- %tmp = load uint* %tmp ; <uint> [#uses=1]
- %tmp3 = cast %struct.B* %b to uint* ; <uint*> [#uses=1]
- %tmp4 = load uint* %tmp3 ; <uint> [#uses=1]
- %tmp8 = cast %struct.B* %b to uint* ; <uint*> [#uses=2]
- %tmp9 = load uint* %tmp8 ; <uint> [#uses=1]
- %tmp4.mask17 = shl uint %tmp4, ubyte 1 ; <uint> [#uses=1]
- %tmp1415 = and uint %tmp4.mask17, 2147483648 ; <uint> [#uses=1]
- %tmp.masked = and uint %tmp, 2147483648 ; <uint> [#uses=1]
- %tmp11 = or uint %tmp1415, %tmp.masked ; <uint> [#uses=1]
- %tmp12 = and uint %tmp9, 2147483647 ; <uint> [#uses=1]
- %tmp13 = or uint %tmp12, %tmp11 ; <uint> [#uses=1]
- store uint %tmp13, uint* %tmp8
+ %tmp = bitcast %struct.B* %b to i32* ; <uint*> [#uses=1]
+ %tmp = load i32* %tmp ; <uint> [#uses=1]
+ %tmp3 = bitcast %struct.B* %b to i32* ; <uint*> [#uses=1]
+ %tmp4 = load i32* %tmp3 ; <uint> [#uses=1]
+ %tmp8 = bitcast %struct.B* %b to i32* ; <uint*> [#uses=2]
+ %tmp9 = load i32* %tmp8 ; <uint> [#uses=1]
+ %tmp4.mask17 = shl i32 %tmp4, i8 1 ; <uint> [#uses=1]
+ %tmp1415 = and i32 %tmp4.mask17, 2147483648 ; <uint> [#uses=1]
+ %tmp.masked = and i32 %tmp, 2147483648 ; <uint> [#uses=1]
+ %tmp11 = or i32 %tmp1415, %tmp.masked ; <uint> [#uses=1]
+ %tmp12 = and i32 %tmp9, 2147483647 ; <uint> [#uses=1]
+ %tmp13 = or i32 %tmp12, %tmp11 ; <uint> [#uses=1]
+ store i32 %tmp13, i32* %tmp8
ret void
}
===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
+Consider a function like this:
+
+float foo(float X) { return X + 1234.4123f; }
+
+The FP constant ends up in the constant pool, so we need to get the LR register.
+ This ends up producing code like this:
+
+_foo:
+.LBB_foo_0: ; entry
+ mflr r11
+*** stw r11, 8(r1)
+ bl "L00000$pb"
+"L00000$pb":
+ mflr r2
+ addis r2, r2, ha16(.CPI_foo_0-"L00000$pb")
+ lfs f0, lo16(.CPI_foo_0-"L00000$pb")(r2)
+ fadds f1, f1, f0
+*** lwz r11, 8(r1)
+ mtlr r11
+ blr
+
+This is functional, but there is no reason to spill the LR register all the way
+to the stack (the two marked instrs): spilling it to a GPR is quite enough.
+
+Implementing this will require some codegen improvements. Nate writes:
+
+"So basically what we need to support the "no stack frame save and restore" is a
+generalization of the LR optimization to "callee-save regs".
+
+Currently, we have LR marked as a callee-save reg. The register allocator sees
+that it's callee save, and spills it directly to the stack.
+
+Ideally, something like this would happen:
+
+LR would be in a separate register class from the GPRs. The class of LR would be
+marked "unspillable". When the register allocator came across an unspillable
+reg, it would ask "what is the best class to copy this into that I *can* spill"
+If it gets a class back, which it will in this case (the gprs), it grabs a free
+register of that class. If it is then later necessary to spill that reg, so be
+it.
+
+===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
+
+We compile this:
+int test(_Bool X) {
+ return X ? 524288 : 0;
+}
+
+to:
+_test:
+ cmplwi cr0, r3, 0
+ lis r2, 8
+ li r3, 0
+ beq cr0, LBB1_2 ;entry
+LBB1_1: ;entry
+ mr r3, r2
+LBB1_2: ;entry
+ blr
+
+instead of:
+_test:
+ addic r2,r3,-1
+ subfe r0,r2,r3
+ slwi r3,r0,19
+ blr
+
+This sort of thing occurs a lot due to globalopt.
+
+===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
+
We compile:
-unsigned test6(unsigned x) {
- return ((x & 0x00FF0000) >> 16) | ((x & 0x000000FF) << 16);
+define i32 @bar(i32 %x) nounwind readnone ssp {
+entry:
+ %0 = icmp eq i32 %x, 0 ; <i1> [#uses=1]
+ %neg = sext i1 %0 to i32 ; <i32> [#uses=1]
+ ret i32 %neg
}
-into:
+to:
+
+_bar:
+ cntlzw r2, r3
+ slwi r2, r2, 26
+ srawi r3, r2, 31
+ blr
-_test6:
- lis r2, 255
- rlwinm r3, r3, 16, 0, 31
- ori r2, r2, 255
- and r3, r3, r2
+it would be better to produce:
+
+_bar:
+ addic r3,r3,-1
+ subfe r3,r3,r3
blr
-GCC gets it down to:
+===-------------------------------------------------------------------------===
+
+We generate horrible ppc code for this:
+
+#define N 2000000
+double a[N],c[N];
+void simpleloop() {
+ int j;
+ for (j=0; j<N; j++)
+ c[j] = a[j];
+}
+
+LBB1_1: ;bb
+ lfdx f0, r3, r4
+ addi r5, r5, 1 ;; Extra IV for the exit value compare.
+ stfdx f0, r2, r4
+ addi r4, r4, 8
+
+ xoris r6, r5, 30 ;; This is due to a large immediate.
+ cmplwi cr0, r6, 33920
+ bne cr0, LBB1_1
+
+//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+This:
+ #include <algorithm>
+ inline std::pair<unsigned, bool> full_add(unsigned a, unsigned b)
+ { return std::make_pair(a + b, a + b < a); }
+ bool no_overflow(unsigned a, unsigned b)
+ { return !full_add(a, b).second; }
+
+Should compile to:
-_test6:
- rlwinm r0,r3,16,8,15
- rlwinm r3,r3,16,24,31
- or r3,r3,r0
+__Z11no_overflowjj:
+ add r4,r3,r4
+ subfc r3,r3,r4
+ li r3,0
+ adde r3,r3,r3
blr
+(or better) not:
+
+__Z11no_overflowjj:
+ add r2, r4, r3
+ cmplw cr7, r2, r3
+ mfcr r2
+ rlwinm r2, r2, 29, 31, 31
+ xori r3, r2, 1
+ blr
+
+//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+We compile some FP comparisons into an mfcr with two rlwinms and an or. For
+example:
+#include <math.h>
+int test(double x, double y) { return islessequal(x, y);}
+int test2(double x, double y) { return islessgreater(x, y);}
+int test3(double x, double y) { return !islessequal(x, y);}
+
+Compiles into (all three are similar, but the bits differ):
+
+_test:
+ fcmpu cr7, f1, f2
+ mfcr r2
+ rlwinm r3, r2, 29, 31, 31
+ rlwinm r2, r2, 31, 31, 31
+ or r3, r2, r3
+ blr
+
+GCC compiles this into:
+
+ _test:
+ fcmpu cr7,f1,f2
+ cror 30,28,30
+ mfcr r3
+ rlwinm r3,r3,31,1
+ blr
+
+which is more efficient and can use mfocr. See PR642 for some more context.
+
+//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+void foo(float *data, float d) {
+ long i;
+ for (i = 0; i < 8000; i++)
+ data[i] = d;
+}
+void foo2(float *data, float d) {
+ long i;
+ data--;
+ for (i = 0; i < 8000; i++) {
+ data[1] = d;
+ data++;
+ }
+}
+
+These compile to:
+
+_foo:
+ li r2, 0
+LBB1_1: ; bb
+ addi r4, r2, 4
+ stfsx f1, r3, r2
+ cmplwi cr0, r4, 32000
+ mr r2, r4
+ bne cr0, LBB1_1 ; bb
+ blr
+_foo2:
+ li r2, 0
+LBB2_1: ; bb
+ addi r4, r2, 4
+ stfsx f1, r3, r2
+ cmplwi cr0, r4, 32000
+ mr r2, r4
+ bne cr0, LBB2_1 ; bb
+ blr
+
+The 'mr' could be eliminated to folding the add into the cmp better.
+
+//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+Codegen for the following (low-probability) case deteriorated considerably
+when the correctness fixes for unordered comparisons went in (PR 642, 58871).
+It should be possible to recover the code quality described in the comments.
+
+; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llc -march=ppc32 | grep or | count 3
+; This should produce one 'or' or 'cror' instruction per function.
+
+; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llc -march=ppc32 | grep mfcr | count 3
+; PR2964
+
+define i32 @test(double %x, double %y) nounwind {
+entry:
+ %tmp3 = fcmp ole double %x, %y ; <i1> [#uses=1]
+ %tmp345 = zext i1 %tmp3 to i32 ; <i32> [#uses=1]
+ ret i32 %tmp345
+}
+
+define i32 @test2(double %x, double %y) nounwind {
+entry:
+ %tmp3 = fcmp one double %x, %y ; <i1> [#uses=1]
+ %tmp345 = zext i1 %tmp3 to i32 ; <i32> [#uses=1]
+ ret i32 %tmp345
+}
+
+define i32 @test3(double %x, double %y) nounwind {
+entry:
+ %tmp3 = fcmp ugt double %x, %y ; <i1> [#uses=1]
+ %tmp34 = zext i1 %tmp3 to i32 ; <i32> [#uses=1]
+ ret i32 %tmp34
+}
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llc -march=ppc32 | not grep fneg
+
+; This could generate FSEL with appropriate flags (FSEL is not IEEE-safe, and
+; should not be generated except with -enable-finite-only-fp-math or the like).
+; With the correctness fixes for PR642 (58871) LowerSELECT_CC would need to
+; recognize a more elaborate tree than a simple SETxx.
+
+define double @test_FNEG_sel(double %A, double %B, double %C) {
+ %D = fsub double -0.000000e+00, %A ; <double> [#uses=1]
+ %Cond = fcmp ugt double %D, -0.000000e+00 ; <i1> [#uses=1]
+ %E = select i1 %Cond, double %B, double %C ; <double> [#uses=1]
+ ret double %E
+}
+
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+The save/restore sequence for CR in prolog/epilog is terrible:
+- Each CR subreg is saved individually, rather than doing one save as a unit.
+- On Darwin, the save is done after the decrement of SP, which means the offset
+from SP of the save slot can be too big for a store instruction, which means we
+need an additional register (currently hacked in 96015+96020; the solution there
+is correct, but poor).
+- On SVR4 the same thing can happen, and I don't think saving before the SP
+decrement is safe on that target, as there is no red zone. This is currently
+broken AFAIK, although it's not a target I can exercise.
+The following demonstrates the problem:
+extern void bar(char *p);
+void foo() {
+ char x[100000];
+ bar(x);
+ __asm__("" ::: "cr2");
+}