This patch improves the logic added at revision 224899 (see review D6728) that
teaches the backend when it is profitable to speculate calls to cttz/ctlz.
The original algorithm conservatively avoided speculating more than one
instruction from a basic block in a control flow grap modelling an if-statement.
In particular, the only allowed instruction (excluding the terminator) was a
call to cttz/ctlz. However, there are cases where we could be less conservative
and still be able to speculate a call to cttz/ctlz.
With this patch, CodeGenPrepare now tries to speculate a cttz/ctlz if the
result is zero extended/truncated in the same basic block, and the zext/trunc
instruction is "free" for the target.
Added new test cases to CodeGen/X86/cttz-ctlz.ll
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6853
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@225274 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
If the control flow is modelling an if-statement where the only instruction in
the 'then' basic block (excluding the terminator) is a call to cttz/ctlz,
CodeGenPrepare can try to speculate the cttz/ctlz call and simplify the control
flow graph.
Example:
\code
entry:
%cmp = icmp eq i64 %val, 0
br i1 %cmp, label %end.bb, label %then.bb
then.bb:
%c = tail call i64 @llvm.cttz.i64(i64 %val, i1 true)
br label %end.bb
end.bb:
%cond = phi i64 [ %c, %then.bb ], [ 64, %entry]
\code
In this example, basic block %then.bb is taken if value %val is not zero.
Also, the phi node in %end.bb would propagate the size-of in bits of %val
only if %val is equal to zero.
With this patch, CodeGenPrepare will try to hoist the call to cttz from %then.bb
into basic block %entry only if cttz is cheap to speculate for the target.
Added two new hooks in TargetLowering.h to let targets customize the behavior
(i.e. decide whether it is cheap or not to speculate calls to cttz/ctlz). The
two new methods are 'isCheapToSpeculateCtlz' and 'isCheapToSpeculateCttz'.
By default, both methods return 'false'.
On X86, method 'isCheapToSpeculateCtlz' returns true only if the target has
LZCNT. Method 'isCheapToSpeculateCttz' only returns true if the target has BMI.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6728
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@224899 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
