In preparation for passing the MCSubtargetInfo (STI) through to writeNops
so that it can use the STI in operation at the time, we need to record the
STI in operation when a MCAlignFragment may write nops as padding. The
STI is currently unused, a further patch will pass it through to
writeNops.
There are many places that can create an MCAlignFragment, in most cases
we can find out the STI in operation at the time. In a few places this
isn't possible as we are in initialisation or finalisation, or are
emitting constant pools. When possible I've tried to find the most
appropriate existing fragment to obtain the STI from, when none is
available use the per module STI.
For constant pools we don't actually need to use EmitCodeAlign as the
constant pools are data anyway so falling through into it via an
executable NOP is no better than falling through into data padding.
This is a prerequisite for D45962 which uses the STI to emit the
appropriate NOP for the STI. Which can differ per fragment.
Note that involves an interface change to InitSections. It is now
called initSections and requires a SubtargetInfo as a parameter.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45961
Some files still contained the old University of Illinois Open Source
Licence header. This patch replaces that with the Apache 2 with LLVM
Exception licence.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D107528
A linker optimization is available on PowerPC for GOT indirect PCRelative loads.
The idea is that we can mark a usual GOT indirect load:
pld 3, vec@got@pcrel(0), 1
lwa 3, 4(3)
With a relocation to say that if we don't need to go through the GOT we can let
the linker further optimize this and replace a load with a nop.
pld 3, vec@got@pcrel(0), 1
.Lpcrel1:
.reloc .Lpcrel1-8,R_PPC64_PCREL_OPT,.-(.Lpcrel1-8)
lwa 3, 4(3)
This patch adds the logic that allows the compiler to add the R_PPC64_PCREL_OPT.
Reviewers: nemanjai, lei, hfinkel, sfertile, efriedma, tstellar, grosbach
Reviewed By: nemanjai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79864
A known limitation for Future CPU is that the new prefixed instructions may
not cross 64 Byte boundaries.
All instructions are already 4 byte aligned so the only situation where this
can occur is when the prefix is in one 64 byte block and the instruction that
is prefixed is at the top of the next 64 byte block. To fix this case
PPCELFStreamer was added to intercept EmitInstruction. When a prefixed
instruction is emitted we try to align it to 64 Bytes by adding a maximum of
4 bytes. If the prefixed instruction crosses the 64 Byte boundary then the
alignment would trigger and a 4 byte nop would be added to push the
instruction into the next 64 byte block.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D72570
