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Re: [4.9 PATCH, alpha]: Switch alpha to LRA


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Chung-Ju Wu <jasonwucj@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>>>          * config/alpha/alpha.c (TARGET_LRA_P): New define.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bootstrapped and regression tested [1] on alphaev68-unknown-linux-gnu.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OK for 4.9?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yep.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, alphas are much more tied to reload than it was hoped.
>>>> While latest alphas (with FIX and BWX ISAs) survived transition to LRA
>>>> without problems, further testing on ev4 and ev5 triggered various
>>>> problems, one of them is PR57032 [1] that exposed rather unique way of
>>>> handling aligned/nonaligned memory operands.
>>>>
>>>> The patch was reverted.
>>>>
>>>> I suspect that fixing older alphas to live with LRA would be quite
>>>> involved task, and I guess nobody (including me) wants to spend
>>>> considerable amount of time on a dying architecture. Consequently,
>>>> this also means that alphas will die together with reload as far as
>>>> gcc is concerned.
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57032
>>>
>>> Would it make sense to deprecate the older Alpha implementations without
>>> killing the "modern" ones?
>>
>> Right. That would also eliminate the NOTE_INSN_EH_REGION notes bug (PR
>> target/56858).
>>
>> I think it would be a shame to not enable LRA on alpha. It will only
>> be another excuse to never let reload die, and it will hurt stability
>> and reliability for Alpha EV6 in the long term as other targets switch
>> over to LRA.
>>
>> Is it possible to add some EV4/EV5 splitters to work around this Alpha
>> EV4/EV5 oddity? Even if it comes at a code quality cost, it's IMHO
>> still better than tying the fate of apha to reload and vice versa..
>>
>> Ciao!
>> Steven
>
>
> How about using follow constraints?
>
> Index: alpha.c
> ===================================================================
> --- alpha.c     (revision 198216)
> +++ alpha.c     (working copy)
> @@ -9871,6 +9871,9 @@
>  #undef TARGET_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P
>  #define TARGET_LEGITIMATE_ADDRESS_P alpha_legitimate_address_p
>
> +#undef TARGET_LRA_P
> +#define TARGET_LRA_P hook_bool_void_true
> +
>  #undef TARGET_CONDITIONAL_REGISTER_USAGE
>  #define TARGET_CONDITIONAL_REGISTER_USAGE alpha_conditional_register_usage
>
> Index: alpha.md
> ===================================================================
> --- alpha.md    (revision 198216)
> +++ alpha.md    (working copy)
> @@ -4073,9 +4073,9 @@
>
>  (define_insn "*movdi"
>    [(set (match_operand:DI 0 "nonimmediate_operand"
> -                               "=r,r,r,r,r,r,r,r, m, *f,*f, Q, r,*f")
> +                               "=r,r,r,r,r,r,r,r, m, *f,*f, m, r,*f")
>         (match_operand:DI 1 "input_operand"
> -                               "rJ,K,L,T,s,n,s,m,rJ,*fJ, Q,*f,*f, r"))]
> +                               "rJ,K,L,T,s,n,s,m,rJ,*fJ, m,*f,*f, r"))]
>    "register_operand (operands[0], DImode)
>     || reg_or_0_operand (operands[1], DImode)"
>    "@
>
>
> As Uros said, the 'Q' is ignored by LRA.
> The reason is that the predicate function normal_memory_operand()
> may change op to a memory location by using resolved_reload_operand().
> However, if LRA is enabled, resolve_reload_operand() always returns
> original reg op because reload_in_progress would never be true,
> resulting reload loop in this case.
>
> So I guess using 'm' constraint instead of 'Q' is able to avoid
> such abnormal behavior, leaving all the reload jobs to LRA.
> IMHO that is a simplest solution.  At least it passes the case in
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57032
> and successfully build libgcc.

Yes, this patch will work up to building libstdc++, where it will fail
with the same reason on movqi pattern (on non-BWX target). I suspect
that QImode access is generated during LRA (where reload_in_progress
is false!) and it directly generates movqi, which can't use memory
operand. Maybe simply adding lra_in_progress to reload_in_progress
would fix this problem.

Uros.


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