When expanding unaligned Altivec loads, we use the decremented offset trick to
prevent page faults. Unfortunately, if we have a sequence of consecutive
unaligned loads, this leads to suboptimal code generation because the 'extra'
load from the first unaligned load can be combined with the base load from the
second (but only if the decremented offset trick is not used for the first).
Search up and down the chain, through loads and token factors, looking for
consecutive loads, and if one is found, don't use the offset reduction trick.
These duplicate loads are later combined to yield the desired sequence (in the
future, we might want a more-powerful chain search, but that will require some
changes to allow the combiner routines to access the AA object).
This should complete the initial implementation of the optimized unaligned
Altivec load expansion. There is some refactoring that should be done, but
that will happen when the unaligned store expansion is added.
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The lvsl permutation control instruction is a function only of the alignment of
the pointer operand (relative to the 16-byte natural alignment of Altivec
vectors). As a result, multiple lvsl intrinsics where the operands differ by a
multiple of 16 can be combined.
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Altivec only directly supports aligned loads, but the loads have a strange
property: If given an unaligned address, they truncate the address to the next
lower aligned address, and load from there. This property, along with an extra
load and some special-purpose permutation-control instructions that generate
the appropriate permutations from the original unaligned address, allow
efficient lowering of aligned loads. This code uses the trick explained in the
Apple Velocity Engine optimization overview document to prevent the needed
extra load from possibly causing a page fault if the original address happens
to be aligned.
As noted in the FIXMEs, there are several additional optimizations that can be
performed to reduce the cost of these loads even more. These will be
implemented in future commits.
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