llvm-project/llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/tail-threshold.ll
David Bolvansky 896ece41e4 [Codegen] Merge tail blocks with no successors after block placement
Summary:
I found the following case having tail blocks with no successors merging opportunities after block placement.

Before block placement:

bb0:
    ...
    bne a0, 0, bb2:

bb1:
    mv a0, 1
    ret 

bb2:
    ...

bb3:
    mv a0, 1
    ret

bb4:
    mv a0, -1
    ret

The conditional branch bne in bb0 is opposite to beq.

After block placement:

bb0:
    ...
    beq a0, 0, bb1

bb2:
    ...

bb4:
    mv a0, -1
    ret

bb1:
    mv a0, 1
    ret

bb3:
    mv a0, 1
    ret

After block placement, that appears new tail merging opportunity, bb1 and bb3 can be merged as one block. So the conditional constraint for merging tail blocks with no successors should be removed. In my experiment for RISC-V, it decreases code size.


Author of original patch: Jim Lin

Reviewers: haicheng, aheejin, craig.topper, rnk, RKSimon, Jim, dmgreen

Reviewed By: Jim, dmgreen

Subscribers: xbolva00, dschuff, javed.absar, sbc100, jgravelle-google, aheejin, kito-cheng, dmgreen, PkmX, llvm-commits

Tags: #llvm

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54411

llvm-svn: 363284
2019-06-13 18:11:32 +00:00

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; NOTE: Assertions have been autogenerated by utils/update_llc_test_checks.py
; RUN: llc -mtriple=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -tail-merge-threshold 2 < %s | FileCheck %s
; Test that we still do some merging if a block has more than
; tail-merge-threshold predecessors.
declare void @bar()
define void @foo(i32 %xxx) nounwind {
; CHECK-LABEL: foo:
; CHECK: # %bb.0:
; CHECK-NEXT: pushq %rax
; CHECK-NEXT: cmpl $3, %edi
; CHECK-NEXT: ja .LBB0_4
; CHECK-NEXT: # %bb.1:
; CHECK-NEXT: movl %edi, %eax
; CHECK-NEXT: jmpq *.LJTI0_0(,%rax,8)
; CHECK-NEXT: .LBB0_3: # %bb3
; CHECK-NEXT: callq bar
; CHECK-NEXT: popq %rax
; CHECK-NEXT: retq
; CHECK-NEXT: .LBB0_4: # %bb4
; CHECK-NEXT: callq bar
; CHECK-NEXT: popq %rax
; CHECK-NEXT: retq
switch i32 %xxx, label %bb4 [
i32 0, label %bb0
i32 1, label %bb1
i32 2, label %bb2
i32 3, label %bb3
]
bb0:
call void @bar()
br label %bb5
bb1:
call void @bar()
br label %bb5
bb2:
call void @bar()
br label %bb5
bb3:
call void @bar()
br label %bb5
bb4:
call void @bar()
br label %bb5
bb5:
ret void
}