The original take 1 was 6102310d814ad73eab60a88b21dd70874f7a056f,
which taught InstSimplify to do that, which seemed better at time,
since we got EarlyCSE support for free.
However, it was proven that we can not do that there,
the simplified-to PHI would not be reachable from the original PHI,
and that is not something InstSimplify is allowed to do,
as noted in the commit ed90f15efb40d26b5d3ead3bb8e9e284218e0186
that reverted it:
> It appears to cause compilation non-determinism and caused stage3 mismatches.
Then there was take 2 3e69871ab5a66fb55913a2a2f5e7f5b42899a4c9,
which was InstCombine-specific, but it again showed stage2-stage3 differences,
and reverted in bdaa3f86a040b138c58de41d73d35b76fdec1380.
This is quite alarming.
Here, let's try to change how we find existing PHI candidate:
due to the worklist order, and the way PHI nodes are inserted
(it may be inserted as the first one, or maybe not), let's look at *all*
PHI nodes in the block.
Effects on vanilla llvm test-suite + RawSpeed:
```
| statistic name | baseline | proposed | Δ | % | \|%\| |
|----------------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-------:|---------:|---------:|
| asm-printer.EmittedInsts | 7942329 | 7942457 | 128 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| assembler.ObjectBytes | 254295632 | 254312480 | 16848 | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| correlated-value-propagation.NumPhis | 18412 | 18347 | -65 | -0.35% | 0.35% |
| early-cse.NumCSE | 2183283 | 2183267 | -16 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| early-cse.NumSimplify | 550105 | 541842 | -8263 | -1.50% | 1.50% |
| instcombine.NumAggregateReconstructionsSimplified | 73 | 4506 | 4433 | 6072.60% | 6072.60% |
| instcombine.NumCombined | 3640311 | 3644419 | 4108 | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| instcombine.NumDeadInst | 1778204 | 1783205 | 5001 | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| instcombine.NumPHICSEs | 0 | 22490 | 22490 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| instcombine.NumWorklistIterations | 2023272 | 2024400 | 1128 | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| instcount.NumCallInst | 1758395 | 1758802 | 407 | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| instcount.NumInvokeInst | 59478 | 59502 | 24 | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| instcount.NumPHIInst | 330557 | 330545 | -12 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| instcount.TotalBlocks | 1077138 | 1077220 | 82 | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| instcount.TotalFuncs | 101442 | 101441 | -1 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| instcount.TotalInsts | 8831946 | 8832606 | 660 | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| simplifycfg.NumHoistCommonCode | 24186 | 24187 | 1 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| simplifycfg.NumInvokes | 4300 | 4410 | 110 | 2.56% | 2.56% |
| simplifycfg.NumSimpl | 1019813 | 999767 | -20046 | -1.97% | 1.97% |
```
So it fires 22490 times, which is less than ~24k the take 1 did,
but more than what take 2 did (22228 times)
.
It allows foldAggregateConstructionIntoAggregateReuse() to actually work
after PHI-of-extractvalue folds did their thing. Previously SimplifyCFG
would have done this PHI CSE, of all places. Additionally, allows some
more `invoke`->`call` folds to happen (+110, +2.56%).
All in all, expectedly, this catches less things overall,
but all the motivational cases are still caught, so all good.
While the original variant with doing this in InstSimplify (rightfully)
caused questions and ultimately was detected to be a culprit
of stage2-stage3 mismatch, it was expected that
InstCombine-based implementation would be fine.
But apparently it's not, as
http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/clang-with-thin-lto-ubuntu/builds/24095/steps/compare-compilers/logs/stdio
suggests.
Which suggests that somewhere in InstCombine there is a loop
over nondeterministically sorted container, which causes
different worklist ordering.
This reverts commit 3e69871ab5a66fb55913a2a2f5e7f5b42899a4c9.
The original take was 6102310d814ad73eab60a88b21dd70874f7a056f,
which taught InstSimplify to do that, which seemed better at time,
since we got EarlyCSE support for free.
However, it was proven that we can not do that there,
the simplified-to PHI would not be reachable from the original PHI,
and that is not something InstSimplify is allowed to do,
as noted in the commit ed90f15efb40d26b5d3ead3bb8e9e284218e0186
that reverted it :
> It appears to cause compilation non-determinism and caused stage3 mismatches.
However InstCombine already does many different optimizations,
so it should be a safe place to do it here.
Note that we still can't just compare incoming values ranges,
because there is no guarantee that these PHI's we'd simplify to
were already re-visited and sorted.
However coming up with a test is problematic.
Effects on vanilla llvm test-suite + RawSpeed:
```
| statistic name | baseline | proposed | Δ | % | |%| |
|----------------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-------:|---------:|---------:|
| instcombine.NumPHICSEs | 0 | 22228 | 22228 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| asm-printer.EmittedInsts | 7942329 | 7942456 | 127 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| assembler.ObjectBytes | 254295632 | 254313792 | 18160 | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| early-cse.NumCSE | 2183283 | 2183272 | -11 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| early-cse.NumSimplify | 550105 | 541842 | -8263 | -1.50% | 1.50% |
| instcombine.NumAggregateReconstructionsSimplified | 73 | 4506 | 4433 | 6072.60% | 6072.60% |
| instcombine.NumCombined | 3640311 | 3666911 | 26600 | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| instcombine.NumDeadInst | 1778204 | 1783318 | 5114 | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| instcount.NumCallInst | 1758395 | 1758804 | 409 | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| instcount.NumInvokeInst | 59478 | 59502 | 24 | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| instcount.NumPHIInst | 330557 | 330549 | -8 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| instcount.TotalBlocks | 1077138 | 1077221 | 83 | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| instcount.TotalFuncs | 101442 | 101441 | -1 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| instcount.TotalInsts | 8831946 | 8832611 | 665 | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| simplifycfg.NumInvokes | 4300 | 4410 | 110 | 2.56% | 2.56% |
| simplifycfg.NumSimpl | 1019813 | 999740 | -20073 | -1.97% | 1.97% |
```
So it fires ~22k times, which is less than ~24k the take 1 did.
It allows foldAggregateConstructionIntoAggregateReuse() to actually work
after PHI-of-extractvalue folds did their thing. Previously SimplifyCFG
would have done this PHI CSE, of all places. Additionally, allows some
more `invoke`->`call` folds to happen (+110, +2.56%).
All in all, expectedly, this catches less things overall,
but all the motivational cases are still caught, so all good.
Apparently, we don't do this, neither in EarlyCSE, nor in InstSimplify,
nor in (old) GVN, but do in NewGVN and SimplifyCFG of all places..
While i could teach EarlyCSE how to hash PHI nodes,
we can't really do much (anything?) even if we find two identical
PHI nodes in different basic blocks, same-BB case is the interesting one,
and if we teach InstSimplify about it (which is what i wanted originally,
https://reviews.llvm.org/D86530), we get EarlyCSE support for free.
So i would think this is pretty uncontroversial.
On vanilla llvm test-suite + RawSpeed, this has the following effects:
```
| statistic name | baseline | proposed | Δ | % | \|%\| |
|----------------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-------:|---------:|---------:|
| instsimplify.NumPHICSE | 0 | 23779 | 23779 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| asm-printer.EmittedInsts | 7942328 | 7942392 | 64 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| assembler.ObjectBytes | 273069192 | 273084704 | 15512 | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| correlated-value-propagation.NumPhis | 18412 | 18539 | 127 | 0.69% | 0.69% |
| early-cse.NumCSE | 2183283 | 2183227 | -56 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| early-cse.NumSimplify | 550105 | 542090 | -8015 | -1.46% | 1.46% |
| instcombine.NumAggregateReconstructionsSimplified | 73 | 4506 | 4433 | 6072.60% | 6072.60% |
| instcombine.NumCombined | 3640264 | 3664769 | 24505 | 0.67% | 0.67% |
| instcombine.NumDeadInst | 1778193 | 1783183 | 4990 | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| instcount.NumCallInst | 1758401 | 1758799 | 398 | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| instcount.NumInvokeInst | 59478 | 59502 | 24 | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| instcount.NumPHIInst | 330557 | 330533 | -24 | -0.01% | 0.01% |
| instcount.TotalInsts | 8831952 | 8832286 | 334 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| simplifycfg.NumInvokes | 4300 | 4410 | 110 | 2.56% | 2.56% |
| simplifycfg.NumSimpl | 1019808 | 999607 | -20201 | -1.98% | 1.98% |
```
I.e. it fires ~24k times, causes +110 (+2.56%) more `invoke` -> `call`
transforms, and counter-intuitively results in *more* instructions total.
That being said, the PHI count doesn't decrease that much,
and looking at some examples, it seems at least some of them
were previously getting PHI CSE'd in SimplifyCFG of all places..
I'm adjusting `Instruction::isIdenticalToWhenDefined()` at the same time.
As a comment in `InstCombinerImpl::visitPHINode()` already stated,
there are no guarantees on the ordering of the operands of a PHI node,
so if we just naively compare them, we may false-negatively say that
the nodes are not equal when the only difference is operand order,
which is especially important since the fold is in InstSimplify,
so we can't rely on InstCombine sorting them beforehand.
Fixing this for the general case is costly (geomean +0.02%),
and does not appear to catch anything in test-suite, but for
the same-BB case, it's trivial, so let's fix at least that.
As per http://llvm-compile-time-tracker.com/compare.php?from=04879086b44348cad600a0a1ccbe1f7776cc3cf9&to=82bdedb888b945df1e9f130dd3ac4dd3c96e2925&stat=instructions
this appears to cause geomean +0.03% compile time increase (regression),
but geomean -0.01%..-0.04% code size decrease (improvement).
If the pointer was loaded/stored before the null check, the check
is redundant and can be removed. For now the optimizers do not
remove the nullptr check, see https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/H2r5GG.
The patch allows to use more nonnull constraints. Also, it found
one more optimization in some PowerPC test. This is my first llvm
review, I am free to any comments.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71177
This is a resubmission of bbb29738b58aaf6f6518269abdcf8f64131665a9 that
was reverted due to clang tests failures. It includes the fix and
additional IR tests for the missed case.
Summary:
In case when all incoming values of a PHI are equal pointers, this
transformation inserts a definition of such a pointer right after
definition of the base pointer and replaces with this value both PHI and
all it's incoming pointers. Primary goal of this transformation is
canonicalization of this pattern in order to enable optimizations that
can't handle PHIs. Non-inbounds pointers aren't currently supported.
Reviewers: spatel, RKSimon, lebedev.ri, apilipenko
Reviewed By: apilipenko
Tags: #llvm
Subscribers: hiraditya, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68128
In case when all incoming values of a PHI are equal pointers, this
transformation inserts a definition of such a pointer right after
definition of the base pointer and replaces with this value both PHI and
all it's incoming pointers. Primary goal of this transformation is
canonicalization of this pattern in order to enable optimizations that
can't handle PHIs. Non-inbounds pointers aren't currently supported.
Reviewers: spatel, RKSimon, lebedev.ri, apilipenko
Reviewed By: apilipenko
Tags: #llvm
Subscribers: hiraditya, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68128
