In D110173 we start using the existing LLVM IDF calculator to place PHIs as
we reconstruct an SSA form of machine-code program. Sadly that's slower
than the old (but broken) way, this patch attempts to recover some of that
performance.
The key observation: every time we def a register, we also have to def it's
register units. If we def'd $rax, in the current implementation we
independently calculate PHI locations for {al, ah, ax, eax, hax, rax}, and
they will all have the same PHI positions. Instead of doing that, we can
calculate the PHI positions for {al, ah} and place PHIs for any aliasing
registers in the same positions. Any def of a super-register has to def
the unit, and vice versa, so this is sound. It cuts down the SSA placement
we need to do significantly.
This doesn't work for stack slots, or registers we only ever read, so place
PHIs normally for those. LiveDebugValues choses to ignore writes to SP at
calls, and now have to ignore writes to SP register units too.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D111627
InstrRefBasedLDV used to try and determine which values are in which
registers using a lattice approach; however this is hard to understand, and
broken in various ways. This patch replaces that approach with a standard
SSA approach using existing LLVM utilities. PHIs are placed at dominance
frontiers; value propagation then eliminates un-necessary PHIs.
This patch also adds a bunch of unit tests that should cover many of the
weirder forms of control flow.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D110173
These "dump" methods call into MachineOperand::dump, which doesn't exist
with NDEBUG, thus we croak. Disable LiveDebugValues dump methods when
NDEBUG is turned on to avoid this.
This patch shifts the InstrRefBasedLDV class declaration to a header.
Partially because it's already massive, but mostly so that I can start
writing some unit tests for it. This patch also adds the boilerplate for
said unit tests.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D110165
