This addresses an existing TODO and simply moves the current code to add
canonical IV recipes to the initial skeleton construction, at the same
place where the corresponding region will be introduced.
Move out the logic to prepare for vectorization to a separate transform,
before creating loop regions. This was discussed as follow-up
in https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/136455.
This just moves the existing code around slightly and will simplify
follow-up patches to include the exiting edges during initial VPlan
construction.
Simplify initial VPlan construction by not creating a separate
vector.latch block, which isn't needed and will get folded away later.
This has been suggested as independent clean-up multiple times.
Add incoming exit phi operands during the initial VPlan construction.
This ensures all users are added to the initial VPlan and is also needed
in preparation to retaining exiting edges during initial construction.
PR: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/136455
Follow-up as discussed in https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/129402.
After bc03d6cce257, the VPlanHCFGBuilder doesn't actually build a HCFG
any longer. Move what remains directly into VPlanConstruction.cpp.
Create an empty VPlan first, then let the HCFG builder create a plain
CFG for the top-level loop (w/o a top-level region). The top-level
region is introduced by a separate VPlan-transform. This is instead of
creating the vector loop region before building the VPlan CFG for the
input loop.
This simplifies the HCFG builder (which should probably be renamed) and
moves along the roadmap ('buildLoop') outlined in [1].
As follow-up, I plan to also preserve the exit branches in the initial
VPlan out of the CFG builder, including connections to the exit blocks.
The conversion from plain CFG with potentially multiple exits to a
single entry/exit region will be done as VPlan transform in a follow-up.
This is needed to enable VPlan-based predication. Currently early exit
support relies on building the block-in masks on the original CFG,
because exiting branches and conditions aren't preserved in the VPlan.
So in order to switch to VPlan-based predication, we will have to
preserve them in the initial plain CFG, so the exit conditions are
available explicitly when we convert to single entry/exit regions.
Another follow-up is updating the outer loop handling to also introduce
VPRegionBlocks for nested loops as transform. Currently the existing
logic in the builder will take care of creating VPRegionBlocks for
nested loops, but not the top-level loop.
[1]
https://llvm.org/devmtg/2023-10/slides/techtalks/Hahn-VPlan-StatusUpdateAndRoadmap.pdf
PR: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/128419
