The existing way of creating the predicate in the guard blocks uses
a boolean value per outgoing block. This increases the number of live
booleans as the number of outgoing blocks increases. The new way added
in this change is to store one integer to represent the outgoing block
we want to branch to, then at each guard block, an integer equality
check is performed to decide which a specific outgoing block is taken.
Using an integer reduces the number of live values and decreases
register pressure especially in cases where there are a large number
of outgoing blocks. The integer based approach is used when the
number of outgoing blocks crosses a threshold, which is currently set
to 32.
Patch by Ruiling Song.
Differential review: https://reviews.llvm.org/D127831
This is the first patch in a series intended for removing flag
-enable-new-pm=0 from lit tests. This is part of a bigger
effort of completely removing legacy code related to legacy
pass manager in favor of currently default new pass manager.
In this patch flag has been removed only from tests where no significant
change has been required because checks has been duplicated for
both PMs.
Reviewed By: fhahn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D134150
For each natural loop with multiple exit blocks, this pass creates a
new block N such that all exiting blocks now branch to N, and then
control flow is redistributed to all the original exit blocks.
The bulk of the tranformation is a new function introduced in
BasicBlockUtils that an redirect control flow from a set of incoming
blocks to a set of outgoing blocks via a common "hub".
This is a useful workaround for a limitation in the structurizer which
incorrectly orders blocks when processing a nest of loops. This pass
bypasses that issue by ensuring that each natural loop is recognized
as a separate region. Since the structurizer is a region pass, it no
longer sees a nest of loops in a single region, and instead processes
each "level" in the nesting as a separate region.
The AMDGPU backend provides a new option to enable this pass before
the structurizer, which may eventually be enabled by default.
Reviewers: madhur13490, arsenm, nhaehnle
Reviewed By: nhaehnle
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75865
