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Commit 88f0c31f authored by Marina Yatsina's avatar Marina Yatsina
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Avoid false dependencies of undef machine operands

This patch helps avoid false dependencies on undef registers by updating the machine instructions' undef operand to use a register that the instruction is truly dependent on, or use a register with clearance higher than Pref.

Pseudo example:

loop:
xmm0 = ...
xmm1 = vcvtsi2sdl eax, xmm0<undef>
... = inst xmm0
jmp loop

In this example, selecting xmm0 as the undef register creates false dependency between loop iterations.
This false dependency cannot be solved by inserting an xor before vcvtsi2sdl because xmm0 is alive at the point of the vcvtsi2sdl instruction.
Selecting a different register instead of xmm0, especially a register that is not used in the loop, will eliminate this problem.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22466

llvm-svn: 278321
parent b83e73bc
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