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Re: [PATCH][ PR rtl-optimization/79286] Drop may_trap_p exception to testing dominance in update_equiv_regs


On 04/29/2017 01:06 AM, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
> On 04/28/17 20:46, Jeff Law wrote:
>> On 04/28/2017 11:27 AM, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
>>> Yes I agree, that is probably not worth it.  So I could try to remove
>>> the special handling of PIC+const and see what happens.
>>>
>>> However the SYMBOL_REF_FUNCTION_P is another story, that part I would
>>> like to keep: It happens quite often, already w/o -fpic that call
>>> statements are using SYMBOL_REFs to ordinary (not weak) function
>>> symbols, and may_trap returns 1 for these call statements wihch is IMHO
>>> wrong.
>> Hmm, thinking more about this, wasn't the original case a PIC referrence
>> for something like &x[BIGNUM].
>>
>> Perhaps we could consider a PIC reference without other arithmetic as
>> safe.  That would likely pick up the SYMBOL_REF_FUNCTION_P case you want
>> as well good deal many more PIC references as non-trapping.
>>
> Yes, I like this idea.
> 
> I tried to compile openssl with -m32 -fpic as an example, and counted
> how often the mem[pic+const] is hit: that was 2353 times, all kind of
> object refs.
> 
> Then I tried your idea, and only 54 unhandled pic refs remained, all of
> them looking like this:
> 
> (plus:SI (reg:SI 107)
>      (const:SI (plus:SI (unspec:SI [
>                      (symbol_ref:SI ("bf_init") [flags 0x2] <var_decl 
> 0x2ac00f7bac60 bf_init>)
>                  ] UNSPEC_GOTOFF)
>              (const_int 4164 [0x1044]))))
> 
> I believe that is a negligible fall out from such a big code base.
> 
> Although the pic references do no longer reach the
> SYMBOL_REF_FUNCTION_P in this version of the patch, I still see
> that happening without -fpic option, so I left it as is.
> 
> 
> Attached is the new version of my patch.
> 
> Bootstrapped and reg-tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.
> Is it OK for trunk?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Bernd.
> 
> 
> patch-pr79286.diff
> 
> 
> 2017-04-29  Bernd Edlinger  <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
> 
>         rtl-optimizatoin/79286
>         * ira.c (update_equiv_regs): Revert to using may_tap_p again.
>         * rtlanal.c (rtx_addr_can_trap_p_1): SYMBOL_REF_FUNCTION_P can never
> 	trap.  PIC register plus a const unspec without offset can never trap.
OK.  Sorry for the delay.  I've been swamped.

jeff


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