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Re: [PATCH] PR 62173, re-shuffle insns for RTL loop invariant hoisting


On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Richard Biener
<richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Jiong Wang <jiong.wang@arm.com> wrote:
>> For PR62173, the ideal solution is to resolve the problem on tree level
>> ivopt pass.
>>
>> While, apart from the tree level issue, PR 62173 also exposed another two
>> RTL level issues.
>> one of them is looks like we could improve RTL level loop invariant hoisting
>> by re-shuffle insns.
>>
>> for Seb's testcase
>>
>> void bar(int i) {
>>   char A[10];
>>   int d = 0;
>>   while (i > 0)
>>   A[d++] = i--;
>>
>>   while (d > 0)
>>   foo(A[d--]);
>> }
>>
>> the insn sequences to calculate A[I]'s address looks like:
>>
>> (insn 76 75 77 22 (set (reg/f:DI 109)
>>   (plus:DI (reg/f:DI 64 sfp)
>>   (reg:DI 108 [ i ]))) seb-pop.c:8 84 {*adddi3_aarch64}
>>   (expr_list:REG_DEAD (reg:DI 108 [ i ])
>>   (nil)))
>> (insn 77 76 78 22 (set (reg:SI 110 [ D.2633 ])
>>   (zero_extend:SI (mem/j:QI (plus:DI (reg/f:DI 109)
>>   (const_int -16 [0xfffffffffffffff0])) [0 A S1 A8]))) seb-pop.c:8 76
>> {*zero_extendqisi2_aarch64}
>>   (expr_list:REG_DEAD (reg/f:DI 109)
>>   (nil)))
>>
>> while for most RISC archs, reg + reg addressing is typical, so if we
>> re-shuffle
>> the instruction sequences into the following:
>>
>> (insn 96 94 97 22 (set (reg/f:DI 129)
>>   (plus:DI (reg/f:DI 64 sfp)
>>   (const_int -16 [0xfffffffffffffff0]))) seb-pop.c:8 84 {*adddi3_aarch64}
>>   (nil))
>> (insn 97 96 98 22 (set (reg:DI 130 [ i ])
>>   (sign_extend:DI (reg/v:SI 97 [ i ]))) seb-pop.c:8 70
>> {*extendsidi2_aarch64}
>>   (expr_list:REG_DEAD (reg/v:SI 97 [ i ])
>>   (nil)))
>> (insn 98 97 99 22 (set (reg:SI 131 [ D.2633 ])
>>   (zero_extend:SI (mem/j:QI (plus:DI (reg/f:DI 129)
>>   (reg:DI 130 [ i ])) [0 A S1 A8]))) seb-pop.c:8 76
>> {*zero_extendqisi2_aarch64}
>>   (expr_list:REG_DEAD (reg:DI 130 [ i ])
>>   (expr_list:REG_DEAD (reg/f:DI 129)
>>   (nil))))
>>
>> which means re-associate the constant imm with the virtual frame pointer.
>>
>> transform
>>
>>      RA <- fixed_reg + RC
>>      RD <- MEM (RA + const_offset)
>>
>>   into:
>>
>>      RA <- fixed_reg + const_offset
>>      RD <- MEM (RA + RC)
>>
>> then RA <- fixed_reg + const_offset is actually loop invariant, so the later
>> RTL GCSE PRE pass could catch it and do the hoisting, and thus ameliorate
>> what tree
>> level ivopts could not sort out.
>
> There is a LIM pass after gimple ivopts - if the invariantness is already
> visible there why not handle it there similar to the special-cases in
> rewrite_bittest and rewrite_reciprocal?
>
> And of course similar tricks could be applied on the RTL level to
> RTL invariant motion?

Oh, and the patch misses a testcase.

> Thanks,
> Richard.
>
>> and this patch only tries to re-shuffle instructions within single basic
>> block which
>> is a inner loop which is perf critical.
>>
>> I am reusing the loop info in fwprop because there is loop info and it's run
>> before
>> GCSE.
>>
>> verified on aarch64 and mips64, the array base address hoisted out of loop.
>>
>> bootstrap ok on x86-64 and aarch64.
>>
>> comments?
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> gcc/
>>   PR62173
>>   fwprop.c (prepare_for_gcse_pre): New function.
>>   (fwprop_done): Call it.


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