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219 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Robert Khasanov
aac33cfc08 [SKX] Enabling SKX target and AVX512BW, AVX512DQ, AVX512VL features.
Enabling HasAVX512{DQ,BW,VL} predicates.
Adding VK2, VK4, VK32, VK64 masked register classes.
Adding new types (v64i8, v32i16) to VR512.
Extending calling conventions for new types (v64i8, v32i16)

Patch by Zinovy Nis <zinovy.y.nis@intel.com>
Reviewed by Elena Demikhovsky <elena.demikhovsky@intel.com>


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2014-07-21 14:54:21 +00:00
Sanjay Patel
f7e042324a Move Post RA Scheduling flag bit into SchedMachineModel
Refactoring; no functional changes intended

    Removed PostRAScheduler bits from subtargets (X86, ARM).
    Added PostRAScheduler bit to MCSchedModel class.
    This bit is set by a CPU's scheduling model (if it exists).
    Removed enablePostRAScheduler() function from TargetSubtargetInfo and subclasses.
    Fixed the existing enablePostMachineScheduler() method to use the MCSchedModel (was just returning false!).
    Added methods to TargetSubtargetInfo to allow overrides for AntiDepBreakMode, CriticalPathRCs, and OptLevel for PostRAScheduling.
    Added enablePostRAScheduler() function to PostRAScheduler class which queries the subtarget for the above values.
    Preserved existing scheduler behavior for ARM, MIPS, PPC, and X86: 
       a. ARM overrides the CPU's postRA settings by enabling postRA for any non-Thumb or Thumb2 subtarget. 
       b. MIPS overrides the CPU's postRA settings by enabling postRA for everything. 
       c. PPC overrides the CPU's postRA settings by enabling postRA for everything. 
       d. X86 is the only target that actually has postRA specified via sched model info.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4217


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2014-07-15 22:39:58 +00:00
Eric Christopher
0166af890c Move to a private function to initialize the subtarget dependencies
so that we can use initializer lists for the X86Subtarget.

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2014-06-11 00:25:19 +00:00
Eric Christopher
9c84db6ba3 Use unique_ptr for X86Subtarget pointer members.
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2014-06-10 23:26:47 +00:00
Eric Christopher
fdea941583 Move all of the x86 subtarget initialized variables down into the x86 subtarget
from the x86 target machine. Should be no functional change.

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2014-06-09 17:08:19 +00:00
Alexey Volkov
a2bc6951a0 [X86] Use ADD/SUB instead of INC/DEC for Silvermont
According to Intel Software Optimization Manual 
on Silvermont INC or DEC instructions require 
an additional uop to merge the flags.
As a result, a branch instruction depending 
on an INC or a DEC instruction incurs a 1 cycle penalty.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3990



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2014-06-09 11:40:41 +00:00
Eric Christopher
189fe78e2f Make early if conversion dependent upon the subtarget and add
a subtarget hook to enable. Unconditionally add to the pass pipeline
for targets that might want to use it. No functional change.

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2014-05-21 23:40:26 +00:00
Alexey Volkov
0d0bab5168 [X86] Tune LEA usage for Silvermont
According to Intel Software Optimization Manual on Silvermont in some cases LEA
is better to be replaced with ADD instructions:
"The rule of thumb for ADDs and LEAs is that it is justified to use LEA
with a valid index and/or displacement for non-destructive destination purposes
(especially useful for stack offset cases), or to use a SCALE.
Otherwise, ADD(s) are preferable."

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3826


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2014-05-20 08:55:50 +00:00
Jim Grosbach
6bb00df864 X86: Remove TargetMachine CPU auto-detection.
This logic is properly in the realm of whatever is creating the
TargetMachine. This makes plain 'llc foo.ll' consistent across
heterogenous machines.

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2014-04-12 01:34:29 +00:00
Yaron Keren
9ee14e3522 Added isTargetWindowsMSVC(), renamed isTargetMingw() to isTargetWindowsGNU()
and isTargetCygwin() to isTargetWindowsCygwin() to be consistent with the
four Windows environments in Triple.h.

Suggestion by Saleem Abdulrasool!



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2014-04-02 04:27:51 +00:00
Yaron Keren
bec4ff5781 isTargetWindows() renamed to isTargetKnownWindowsMSVC()
to reflect its current functionality.

Based on Takumi NAKAMURA suggestion.



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2014-04-01 18:15:34 +00:00
Craig Topper
379e2cf307 [C++11] Mark more classes in the X86 target as 'final'.
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2014-03-31 06:53:13 +00:00
NAKAMURA Takumi
5de8a15a7e X86Subtarget.h: isTargetWindows() should tell whether he is targeting msvc.
FYI, !isWindowsGNUEnvironment() is insufficient. It missed cygwin.

FIXME: The name "isTargetWindows" should be fixed.

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2014-03-30 04:35:00 +00:00
Saleem Abdulrasool
2ea701e67a Canonicalise Windows target triple spellings
Construct a uniform Windows target triple nomenclature which is congruent to the
Linux counterpart.  The old triples are normalised to the new canonical form.
This cleans up the long-standing issue of odd naming for various Windows
environments.

There are four different environments on Windows:

MSVC: The MS ABI, MSVCRT environment as defined by Microsoft
GNU: The MinGW32/MinGW32-W64 environment which uses MSVCRT and auxiliary libraries
Itanium: The MSVCRT environment + libc++ built with Itanium ABI
Cygnus: The Cygwin environment which uses custom libraries for everything

The following spellings are now written as:

i686-pc-win32 => i686-pc-windows-msvc
i686-pc-mingw32 => i686-pc-windows-gnu
i686-pc-cygwin => i686-pc-windows-cygnus

This should be sufficiently flexible to allow us to target other windows
environments in the future as necessary.

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2014-03-27 22:50:05 +00:00
Craig Topper
f2c9fef815 [C++11] Add 'override' keyword to virtual methods that override their base class.
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2014-03-09 07:44:38 +00:00
Craig Topper
629b96cb4f Switch all uses of LLVM_OVERRIDE to just use 'override' directly.
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2014-03-02 09:09:27 +00:00
David Woodhouse
476136e951 [x86] Kill gratuitous X86_{32,64}TargetMachine subclasses, use X86TargetMachine
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2014-01-08 00:08:50 +00:00
Craig Topper
93c9401dff [x86] Add basic support for .code16
This is not really expected to work right yet. Mostly because we will
still emit the OpSize (0x66) prefix in all the wrong places, along with
a number of other corner cases. Those will all be fixed in the subsequent
commits.

Patch from David Woodhouse.



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2014-01-06 04:55:54 +00:00
Rafael Espindola
960ede2e1d Synchronize the NaCl DataLayout strings with the ones in clang.
Patch by Derek Schuff.

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2013-12-19 00:44:37 +00:00
Tim Northover
7af55ad434 Make Triple's isOSBinFormatXXX functions partition triple-space.
Most users would be surprised if "isCOFF" and "isMachO" were simultaneously
true, unless they'd put the compiler in a box with a gun attached to a photon
detector.

This makes sure precisely one of the three formats is true for any triple and
simplifies some target logic based on that.

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2013-12-10 16:57:43 +00:00
Ekaterina Romanova
46f7257ed1 SHLD/SHRD are VectorPath (microcode) instructions known to have poor latency on certain architectures. While generating SHLD/SHRD instructions is acceptable when optimizing for size, optimizing for speed on these platforms should be implemented using alternative sequences of instructions composed of add, adc, shr, shl, or and lea which are directPath instructions. These alternative instructions not only have a lower latency but they also increase the decode bandwidth by allowing simultaneous decoding of a third directPath instruction.
AMD's processors family K7, K8, K10, K12, K15 and K16 are known to have SHLD/SHRD instructions with very poor latency. Optimization guides for these processors recommend using an alternative sequence of instructions. For these AMD's processors, I disabled folding (or (x << c) | (y >> (64 - c))) when we are not optimizing for size.

It might be beneficial to disable this folding for some of the Intel's processors. However, since I couldn't find specific recommendations regarding using SHLD/SHRD instructions on Intel's processors, I haven't disabled this peephole for Intel.



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2013-11-21 23:21:26 +00:00
Yaron Keren
faf1415c4f (this is a corrected patch)
Calling _chkstk is required on ELF as well as COFF on Windows. Without 
_chkstk, functions requiring large stack crash in initialization code.

Previous code tested for COFF format but not Mach-O and this patch modifies 
the code to test for Windows OS (both Windows target and MingW target) 
but not Mach-O object format: Looks like macho environment was used to 
build some EFI code.
 
Credits to Andrew MacPherson.



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2013-10-23 23:37:01 +00:00
Rafael Espindola
615f561407 Revert "Calling _chkstk is required on ELF as well as COFF on Windows. Without _chkstk functions requiring large stack crash in initialization code. Previous code tested for COFF format but not Mach-O and this patch modifies the code to test for Windows."
This reverts commit r193263.

It is causing CodeGen/X86/mingw-alloca.ll to fail.

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2013-10-23 21:45:09 +00:00
Yaron Keren
1e0437804c Calling _chkstk is required on ELF as well as COFF on Windows.
Without _chkstk functions requiring large stack crash in 
initialization code. Previous code tested for COFF format but 
not Mach-O and this patch modifies the code to test for Windows.

Credits to Andrew MacPherson.



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2013-10-23 19:40:07 +00:00
Andrew Trick
6a7770b7ae Enable MI Sched for x86.
This changes the SelectionDAG scheduling preference to source
order. Soon, the SelectionDAG scheduler can be bypassed saving
a nice chunk of compile time.

Performance differences that result from this change are often a
consequence of register coalescing. The register coalescer is far from
perfect. Bugs can be filed for deficiencies.

On x86 SandyBridge/Haswell, the source order schedule is often
preserved, particularly for small blocks.

Register pressure is generally improved over the SD scheduler's ILP
mode. However, we are still able to handle large blocks that require
latency hiding, unlike the SD scheduler's BURR mode. MI scheduler also
attempts to discover the critical path in single-block loops and
adjust heuristics accordingly.

The MI scheduler relies on the new machine model. This is currently
unimplemented for AVX, so we may not be generating the best code yet.

Unit tests are updated so they don't depend on SD scheduling heuristics.

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2013-10-15 23:33:07 +00:00
Yunzhong Gao
4da61345ec Adding a feature flag to the llvm backend for x86 TBM instruction set.
Adding TBM feature to bdver2 processor; piledriver supports this instruction set
according to the following document:
http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/New-Bulldozer-and-Piledriver-Instructions.pdf

Phabricator code review is located here: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1692



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2013-09-24 18:21:52 +00:00
Preston Gurd
94dc6540a8 Adds support for Atom Silvermont (SLM) - -march=slm
Implements Instruction scheduler latencies for Silvermont,
using latencies from the Intel Silvermont Optimization Guide.

Auto detects SLM.

Turns on post RA scheduler when generating code for SLM.




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2013-09-13 19:23:28 +00:00
Ben Langmuir
1f1bd9a54d Partial support for Intel SHA Extensions (sha1rnds4)
Add basic assembly/disassembly support for the first Intel SHA
instruction 'sha1rnds4'. Also includes feature flag, and test cases.

Support for the remaining instructions will follow in a separate patch.


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2013-09-12 15:51:31 +00:00
Cameron Esfahani
441c557708 Clean up some usage of Triple. The base class has methods for determining if the target is iOS and Linux.
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2013-08-29 20:23:14 +00:00
NAKAMURA Takumi
6a15b6a269 X86Subtarget.h: Recognize x86_64-cygwin.
In the LLVM side, x86_64-cygwin is almost as same as x86_64-mingw32.

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2013-08-28 03:04:02 +00:00
Craig Topper
33b5fe7f16 Rename mattr names for AVX-512 to from avx-512 -> avx512f, avx-512-pfi -> av512pf, avx-512-cdi -> avx512cd, avx-512-eri->avx512er. This matches better with official docs and what gcc patches appearto be using. I didn't touch the has* functions or the feature flag names to avoid change the td and lowering file while commits are still happening.
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2013-08-21 03:57:57 +00:00
Elena Demikhovsky
e3809eed34 I'm starting to commit KNL backend. I'll push patches one-by-one. This patch includes support for the extended register set XMM16-31, YMM16-31, ZMM0-31.
The full ISA you can see here: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-isa-extensions


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2013-07-24 11:02:47 +00:00
Charles Davis
ac226bbf45 Target/X86: Add explicit Win64 and System V/x86-64 calling conventions.
Summary:
This patch adds explicit calling convention types for the Win64 and
System V/x86-64 ABIs. This allows code to override the default, and use
the Win64 convention on a target that wants to use SysV (and
vice-versa). This is needed to implement the `ms_abi` and `sysv_abi` GNU
attributes.

Reviewers:

CC:

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2013-07-12 06:02:35 +00:00
Andrew Trick
b2b5dc642c Revert "Temporarily enable MI-Sched on X86."
This reverts commit 98a9b72e8c.

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2013-06-25 02:48:58 +00:00
Andrew Trick
98a9b72e8c Temporarily enable MI-Sched on X86.
Sorry for the unit test churn. I'll try to make the change permanently
next time.

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2013-06-24 09:13:20 +00:00
Preston Gurd
d6ac8e9a03 This patch adds the X86FixupLEAs pass, which will reduce instruction
latency for certain models of the Intel Atom family, by converting
instructions into their equivalent LEA instructions, when it is both
useful and possible to do so.




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2013-04-25 20:29:37 +00:00
Michael Liao
c26392aa5d Add support of RDSEED defined in AVX2 extension
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2013-03-28 23:41:26 +00:00
Preston Gurd
1edadea42f For the current Atom processor, the fastest way to handle a call
indirect through a memory address is to load the memory address into
a register and then call indirect through the register.

This patch implements this improvement by modifying SelectionDAG to
force a function address which is a memory reference to be loaded
into a virtual register.

Patch by Sriram Murali.



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2013-03-27 19:14:02 +00:00
Michael Liao
0ca1a7f177 Add HLE target feature
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2013-03-26 22:46:02 +00:00
Michael Liao
675eb3b9ac Add PREFETCHW codegen support
- Add 'PRFCHW' feature defined in AVX2 ISA extension



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2013-03-26 17:47:11 +00:00
Bill Wendling
901d80065c Reinitialize the ivars in the subtarget so that they can be reset with the new features.
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2013-02-16 01:36:26 +00:00
Bill Wendling
ba6867d0ce Temporary revert of 175320.
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2013-02-15 23:22:32 +00:00
Bill Wendling
9be8b4fc92 Reinitialize the ivars in the subtarget.
When we're recalculating the feature set of the subtarget, we need to have the
ivars in their initial state.


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2013-02-15 23:18:01 +00:00
Bill Wendling
789cb5df9c Use the 'target-features' and 'target-cpu' attributes to reset the subtarget features.
If two functions require different features (e.g., `-mno-sse' vs. `-msse') then
we want to honor that, especially during LTO. We can do that by resetting the
subtarget's features depending upon the 'target-feature' attribute.


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2013-02-15 22:31:27 +00:00
Kay Tiong Khoo
7b672ed380 added basic support for Intel ADX instructions
-feature flag, instructions definitions, test cases

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2013-02-14 19:08:21 +00:00
Evan Cheng
8688a58c53 Teach SDISel to combine fsin / fcos into a fsincos node if the following
conditions are met:
1. They share the same operand and are in the same BB.
2. Both outputs are used.
3. The target has a native instruction that maps to ISD::FSINCOS node or
   the target provides a sincos library call.

Implemented the generic optimization in sdisel and enabled it for
Mac OSX. Also added an additional optimization for x86_64 Mac OSX by
using an alternative entry point __sincos_stret which returns the two
results in xmm0 / xmm1.

rdar://13087969
PR13204


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2013-01-29 02:32:37 +00:00
Eli Bendersky
a5597f0eaf In this patch, we teach X86_64TargetMachine that it has a ILP32
(defined by the x32 ABI) mode, in which case its pointers are 32-bits
in size. This knowledge is also added to X86RegisterInfo that now
returns the appropriate registers in getPointerRegClass.

There are many outcomes to this change. In order to keep the patches
separate and manageable, we start by focusing on some simple testable
cases. The patch adds a test with passing a pointer to a function -
focusing on the difference between the two data models for x86-64.
Another test is added for handling of 'sret' arguments (and
functionality is added in X86ISelLowering to make it work).

A note on naming: the "x32 ABI" document refers to the AMD64
architecture (in LLVM it's distinguished by being is64Bits() in the
x86 subtarget) with two variations: the LP64 (default) data model, and
the ILP32 data model. This patch adds predicates to the subtarget
which are consistent with this naming scheme.



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2013-01-25 22:07:43 +00:00
Preston Gurd
c7b902e7fe Pad Short Functions for Intel Atom
The current Intel Atom microarchitecture has a feature whereby
when a function returns early then it is slightly faster to execute
a sequence of NOP instructions to wait until the return address is ready,
as opposed to simply stalling on the ret instruction until
the return address is ready.

When compiling for X86 Atom only, this patch will run a pass,
called "X86PadShortFunction" which will add NOP instructions where less
than four cycles elapse between function entry and return.

It includes tests.

This patch has been updated to address Nadav's review comments
- Optimize only at >= O1 and don't do optimization if -Os is set
- Stores MachineBasicBlock* instead of BBNum
- Uses DenseMap instead of std::map
- Fixes placement of braces

Patch by Andy Zhang.




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2013-01-08 18:27:24 +00:00
Nadav Rotem
5d1f5c1737 Revert revision 171524. Original message:
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=171524&view=rev
Log:
The current Intel Atom microarchitecture has a feature whereby when a function
returns early then it is slightly faster to execute a sequence of NOP
instructions to wait until the return address is ready,
as opposed to simply stalling on the ret instruction
until the return address is ready.

When compiling for X86 Atom only, this patch will run a pass, called
"X86PadShortFunction" which will add NOP instructions where less than four
cycles elapse between function entry and return.

It includes tests.

Patch by Andy Zhang.




git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@171603 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2013-01-05 05:42:48 +00:00
Preston Gurd
dd30b47175 The current Intel Atom microarchitecture has a feature whereby when a function
returns early then it is slightly faster to execute a sequence of NOP
instructions to wait until the return address is ready,
as opposed to simply stalling on the ret instruction
until the return address is ready.

When compiling for X86 Atom only, this patch will run a pass, called
"X86PadShortFunction" which will add NOP instructions where less than four
cycles elapse between function entry and return.

It includes tests.

Patch by Andy Zhang.



git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@171524 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2013-01-04 20:54:54 +00:00