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  1. Sep 15, 2012
    • Chandler Carruth's avatar
      Port the SSAUpdater-based promotion logic from the old SROA pass to the · 70b44c5c
      Chandler Carruth authored
      new one, and add support for running the new pass in that mode and in
      that slot of the pass manager. With this the new pass can completely
      replace the old one within the pipeline.
      
      The strategy for enabling or disabling the SSAUpdater logic is to do it
      by making the requirement of the domtree analysis optional. By default,
      it is required and we get the standard mem2reg approach. This is usually
      the desired strategy when run in stand-alone situations. Within the
      CGSCC pass manager, we disable requiring of the domtree analysis and
      consequentially trigger fallback to the SSAUpdater promotion.
      
      In theory this would allow the pass to re-use a domtree if one happened
      to be available even when run in a mode that doesn't require it. In
      practice, it lets us have a single pass rather than two which was
      simpler for me to wrap my head around.
      
      There is a hidden flag to force the use of the SSAUpdater code path for
      the purpose of testing. The primary testing strategy is just to run the
      existing tests through that path. One notable difference is that it has
      custom code to handle lifetime markers, and one of the tests has been
      enhanced to exercise that code.
      
      This has survived a bootstrap and the test suite without serious
      correctness issues, however my run of the test suite produced *very*
      alarming performance numbers. I don't entirely understand or trust them
      though, so more investigation is on-going.
      
      To aid my understanding of the performance impact of the new SROA now
      that it runs throughout the optimization pipeline, I'm enabling it by
      default in this commit, and will disable it again once the LNT bots have
      picked up one iteration with it. I want to get those bots (which are
      much more stable) to evaluate the impact of the change before I jump to
      any conclusions.
      
      NOTE: Several Clang tests will fail because they run -O3 and check the
      result's order of output. They'll go back to passing once I disable it
      again.
      
      llvm-svn: 163965
      70b44c5c
    • Manman Ren's avatar
      PGO: preserve branch-weight metadata when simplifying two branches with a common · bfb9d435
      Manman Ren authored
      destination.
      
      Updated previous implementation to fix a case not covered:
      // PBI: br i1 %x, TrueDest, BB
      // BI:  br i1 %y, TrueDest, FalseDest
      The other case was handled correctly.
      // PBI: br i1 %x, BB, FalseDest
      // BI:  br i1 %y, TrueDest, FalseDest
      
      Also tried to use 64-bit arithmetic instead of APInt with scale to simplify the
      computation. Let me know if you have other opinions about this.
      
      llvm-svn: 163954
      bfb9d435
    • Bill Wendling's avatar
      Remove comment. · 8d26bc38
      Bill Wendling authored
      llvm-svn: 163945
      8d26bc38
  2. Sep 14, 2012
    • Manman Ren's avatar
      PGO: preserve branch-weight metadata when simplifying a switch with a single · 8691e522
      Manman Ren authored
      case to a conditional branch and when removing dead cases.
      
      llvm-svn: 163942
      8691e522
    • Evan Cheng's avatar
      Stylistic and 80-col fixes · 71be12b3
      Evan Cheng authored
      llvm-svn: 163940
      71be12b3
    • Alex Rosenberg's avatar
      Review feedback from Duncan Sands. Alphabetize includes and simplify · af2808cb
      Alex Rosenberg authored
      lit config.
      
      llvm-svn: 163928
      af2808cb
    • Manman Ren's avatar
      Try to fix the bots by detecting inconsistant branch-weight metadata. · 5e5049d9
      Manman Ren authored
      llvm-svn: 163926
      5e5049d9
    • Manman Ren's avatar
      PGO: preserve branch-weight metadata when merging two switches where · d81b8e88
      Manman Ren authored
      the default target of the first switch is not the basic block the second switch
      is in (PredDefault != BB).
      
      llvm-svn: 163916
      d81b8e88
    • Dmitri Gribenko's avatar
      Fix Doxygen issues: · 5485acd4
      Dmitri Gribenko authored
      * wrap code blocks in \code ... \endcode;
      * refer to parameter names in paragraphs correctly (\arg is not what most
        people want -- it starts a new paragraph);
      * use \param instead of \arg to document parameters in order to be consistent
        with the rest of the codebase.
      
      llvm-svn: 163902
      5485acd4
    • Benjamin Kramer's avatar
      SROA: Silence unused variable warnings in Release builds. · 4622cd7e
      Benjamin Kramer authored
      The NDEBUG hack is ugly, but I see no better solution.
      
      llvm-svn: 163900
      4622cd7e
    • Chandler Carruth's avatar
      Rework the computation of a sub-structure natural type. There were · 054a40a4
      Chandler Carruth authored
      pointless checks in here, bad asserts, and just confusing code. I've
      also added a bit more to the comment to clarify what this function is
      really trying to do as it was not obvious to Duncan when studying it.
      
      Thanks to Duncan for helping me dig through the issue.
      
      No real functionality changed here in practical cases, and certainly no
      test case. This is just cleanup spotted by inspection.
      
      llvm-svn: 163897
      054a40a4
    • Chandler Carruth's avatar
      Rely on the recursive check for pointer types rather than adding an · 0cc59250
      Chandler Carruth authored
      explicit check before recursing. A simplification requested by Duncan
      during review.
      
      llvm-svn: 163896
      0cc59250
    • Chandler Carruth's avatar
      Be a bit more aggressive in bailing out of this routine. Spotted by · cabd96cb
      Chandler Carruth authored
      inspection by Duncan during review. My suspicion is that we would still
      have returned 0 anyways in this case, but doing it sooner is better.
      
      llvm-svn: 163895
      cabd96cb
    • Chandler Carruth's avatar
      Add some comments clarifying that the GEP analysis for vector GEPs is · dd3cea89
      Chandler Carruth authored
      deeply suspicious and likely to go away eventually. Also fix a bogus
      comment about one of the checks in the vector GEP analysis. Based on
      review from Duncan.
      
      llvm-svn: 163894
      dd3cea89
    • Chandler Carruth's avatar
      Move an instance variable to a local variable based on review by Duncan. · 19450da9
      Chandler Carruth authored
      Originally I had anticipated needing to thread this through more bits of
      the SROA pass itself, but that ended up not happening. In the end, this
      is a much simpler way to manange the variable.
      
      llvm-svn: 163893
      19450da9
    • Chandler Carruth's avatar
      Add a comment about debug intrinsics that I *really* don't want to · 4b40e008
      Chandler Carruth authored
      forget from Duncan's review as a FIXME.
      
      llvm-svn: 163892
      4b40e008
    • Chandler Carruth's avatar
      Add two asserts that Duncan thought would help ensure things don't rot · b0de6ddb
      Chandler Carruth authored
      unexpectedly in the future. More fixes from his code review.
      
      llvm-svn: 163891
      b0de6ddb
    • Chandler Carruth's avatar
      Actually keep the flag default-off for now. =/ That's what I get for · 6ba9824c
      Chandler Carruth authored
      being busy testing this...
      
      llvm-svn: 163890
      6ba9824c
    • Chandler Carruth's avatar
      Remove some dead, commented out code Duncan spotted in review. · 796de484
      Chandler Carruth authored
      llvm-svn: 163889
      796de484
    • Chandler Carruth's avatar
    • Chandler Carruth's avatar
      Lots of comment fixes and cleanups from Duncan's review. · 93a21e7a
      Chandler Carruth authored
      llvm-svn: 163887
      93a21e7a
    • NAKAMURA Takumi's avatar
      SROA.cpp: Unbreak gcc, sorry! · 4bbca0bb
      NAKAMURA Takumi authored
      llvm-svn: 163886
      4bbca0bb
    • NAKAMURA Takumi's avatar
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    • Chandler Carruth's avatar
      Speculative change to try to fix older GCC versions that can't handle · 9a447db9
      Chandler Carruth authored
      the injected class name of a dependent base class here.
      
      llvm-svn: 163884
      9a447db9
    • Chandler Carruth's avatar
      Introduce a new SROA implementation. · 1b398ae0
      Chandler Carruth authored
      This is essentially a ground up re-think of the SROA pass in LLVM. It
      was initially inspired by a few problems with the existing pass:
      - It is subject to the bane of my existence in optimizations: arbitrary
        thresholds.
      - It is overly conservative about which constructs can be split and
        promoted.
      - The vector value replacement aspect is separated from the splitting
        logic, missing many opportunities where splitting and vector value
        formation can work together.
      - The splitting is entirely based around the underlying type of the
        alloca, despite this type often having little to do with the reality
        of how that memory is used. This is especially prevelant with unions
        and base classes where we tail-pack derived members.
      - When splitting fails (often due to the thresholds), the vector value
        replacement (again because it is separate) can kick in for
        preposterous cases where we simply should have split the value. This
        results in forming i1024 and i2048 integer "bit vectors" that
        tremendously slow down subsequnet IR optimizations (due to large
        APInts) and impede the backend's lowering.
      
      The new design takes an approach that fundamentally is not susceptible
      to many of these problems. It is the result of a discusison between
      myself and Duncan Sands over IRC about how to premptively avoid these
      types of problems and how to do SROA in a more principled way. Since
      then, it has evolved and grown, but this remains an important aspect: it
      fixes real world problems with the SROA process today.
      
      First, the transform of SROA actually has little to do with replacement.
      It has more to do with splitting. The goal is to take an aggregate
      alloca and form a composition of scalar allocas which can replace it and
      will be most suitable to the eventual replacement by scalar SSA values.
      The actual replacement is performed by mem2reg (and in the future
      SSAUpdater).
      
      The splitting is divided into four phases. The first phase is an
      analysis of the uses of the alloca. This phase recursively walks uses,
      building up a dense datastructure representing the ranges of the
      alloca's memory actually used and checking for uses which inhibit any
      aspects of the transform such as the escape of a pointer.
      
      Once we have a mapping of the ranges of the alloca used by individual
      operations, we compute a partitioning of the used ranges. Some uses are
      inherently splittable (such as memcpy and memset), while scalar uses are
      not splittable. The goal is to build a partitioning that has the minimum
      number of splits while placing each unsplittable use in its own
      partition. Overlapping unsplittable uses belong to the same partition.
      This is the target split of the aggregate alloca, and it maximizes the
      number of scalar accesses which become accesses to their own alloca and
      candidates for promotion.
      
      Third, we re-walk the uses of the alloca and assign each specific memory
      access to all the partitions touched so that we have dense use-lists for
      each partition.
      
      Finally, we build a new, smaller alloca for each partition and rewrite
      each use of that partition to use the new alloca. During this phase the
      pass will also work very hard to transform uses of an alloca into a form
      suitable for promotion, including forming vector operations, speculating
      loads throguh PHI nodes and selects, etc.
      
      After splitting is complete, each newly refined alloca that is
      a candidate for promotion to a scalar SSA value is run through mem2reg.
      
      There are lots of reasonably detailed comments in the source code about
      the design and algorithms, and I'm going to be trying to improve them in
      subsequent commits to ensure this is well documented, as the new pass is
      in many ways more complex than the old one.
      
      Some of this is still a WIP, but the current state is reasonbly stable.
      It has passed bootstrap, the nightly test suite, and Duncan has run it
      successfully through the ACATS and DragonEgg test suites. That said, it
      remains behind a default-off flag until the last few pieces are in
      place, and full testing can be done.
      
      Specific areas I'm looking at next:
      - Improved comments and some code cleanup from reviews.
      - SSAUpdater and enabling this pass inside the CGSCC pass manager.
      - Some datastructure tuning and compile-time measurements.
      - More aggressive FCA splitting and vector formation.
      
      Many thanks to Duncan Sands for the thorough final review, as well as
      Benjamin Kramer for lots of review during the process of writing this
      pass, and Daniel Berlin for reviewing the data structures and algorithms
      and general theory of the pass. Also, several other people on IRC, over
      lunch tables, etc for lots of feedback and advice.
      
      llvm-svn: 163883
      1b398ae0
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