This stops reporting CostPerUse 1 for `R8`-`R15` and `XMM8`-`XMM31`.
This was previously done because instruction encoding require a REX
prefix when using them resulting in longer instruction encodings. I
found that this regresses the quality of the register allocation as the
costs impose an ordering on eviction candidates. I also feel that there
is a bit of an impedance mismatch as the actual costs occure when
encoding instructions using those registers, but the order of VReg
assignments is not primarily ordered by number of Defs+Uses.
I did extensive measurements with the llvm-test-suite wiht SPEC2006 +
SPEC2017 included, internal services showed similar patterns. Generally
there are a log of improvements but also a lot of regression. But on
average the allocation quality seems to improve at a small code size
regression.
Results for measuring static and dynamic instruction counts:
Dynamic Counts (scaled by execution frequency) / Optimization Remarks:
Spills+FoldedSpills -5.6%
Reloads+FoldedReloads -4.2%
Copies -0.1%
Static / LLVM Statistics:
regalloc.NumSpills mean -1.6%, geomean -2.8%
regalloc.NumReloads mean -1.7%, geomean -3.1%
size..text mean +0.4%, geomean +0.4%
Static / LLVM Statistics:
mean -2.2%, geomean -3.1%) regalloc.NumSpills
mean -2.6%, geomean -3.9%) regalloc.NumReloads
mean +0.6%, geomean +0.6%) size..text
Static / LLVM Statistics:
regalloc.NumSpills mean -3.0%
regalloc.NumReloads mean -3.3%
size..text mean +0.3%, geomean +0.3%
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133902
Test updates were performed using:
https://gist.github.com/nikic/98357b71fd67756b0f064c9517b62a34
These are only the test updates where the test passed without
further modification (which is almost all of them, as the backend
is largely pointer-type agnostic).
The motivation is that the update script has at least two deviations
(`<...>@GOT`/`<...>@PLT`/ and not hiding pointer arithmetics) from
what pretty much all the checklines were generated with,
and most of the tests are still not updated, so each time one of the
non-up-to-date tests is updated to see the effect of the code change,
there is a lot of noise. Instead of having to deal with that each
time, let's just deal with everything at once.
This has been done via:
```
cd llvm-project/llvm/test/CodeGen/X86
grep -rl "; NOTE: Assertions have been autogenerated by utils/update_llc_test_checks.py" | xargs -L1 <...>/llvm-project/llvm/utils/update_llc_test_checks.py --llc-binary <...>/llvm-project/build/bin/llc
```
Not all tests were regenerated, however.
Summary:
Switch to FileCheck where possible.
Adjust tests so they can be easily regenerated by update scripts.
Reviewers: craig.topper, spatel, RKSimon
Reviewed By: spatel
Subscribers: MatzeB, qcolombet, arphaman, jfb, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71211
`llc -march` is problematic because it only switches the target
architecture, but leaves the operating system unchanged. This
occasionally leads to indeterministic tests because the OS from
LLVM_DEFAULT_TARGET_TRIPLE is used.
However we can simply always use `llc -mtriple` instead. This changes
all the tests to do this to avoid people using -march when they copy and
paste parts of tests.
See also the discussion in https://reviews.llvm.org/D35287
llvm-svn: 309774
patch brings numerous advantages to LLVM. One way to look at it
is through diffstat:
109 files changed, 3005 insertions(+), 5906 deletions(-)
Removing almost 3K lines of code is a good thing. Other advantages
include:
1. Value::getType() is a simple load that can be CSE'd, not a mutating
union-find operation.
2. Types a uniqued and never move once created, defining away PATypeHolder.
3. Structs can be "named" now, and their name is part of the identity that
uniques them. This means that the compiler doesn't merge them structurally
which makes the IR much less confusing.
4. Now that there is no way to get a cycle in a type graph without a named
struct type, "upreferences" go away.
5. Type refinement is completely gone, which should make LTO much MUCH faster
in some common cases with C++ code.
6. Types are now generally immutable, so we can use "Type *" instead
"const Type *" everywhere.
Downsides of this patch are that it removes some functions from the C API,
so people using those will have to upgrade to (not yet added) new API.
"LLVM 3.0" is the right time to do this.
There are still some cleanups pending after this, this patch is large enough
as-is.
llvm-svn: 134829
This allows us to compile fp-stack-2results.ll into:
_test:
fldz
fld1
ret
which returns 1 in ST(0) and 0 in ST(1). This is needed for x86-64
_Complex long double.
llvm-svn: 48632
