[Bug target/106340] New: flag set from SVE svwhilelt intrinsic not reused in loop

yyc1992 at gmail dot com gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Mon Jul 18 13:01:58 GMT 2022


https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106340

            Bug ID: 106340
           Summary: flag set from SVE svwhilelt intrinsic not reused in
                    loop
           Product: gcc
           Version: 12.1.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: target
          Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
          Reporter: yyc1992 at gmail dot com
  Target Milestone: ---

I'm experimenting with manually writing VLA loops and trying to match the
assembly code I expect/from autovectorizer. One of the main area I can't get it
to work is when setting the loop predicate using the svwhilelt intrinsics. The
instruction it corresponds to set the flags and can be directly used to
terminate the loop. Indeed, when using the autovectorizer, this is exactly what
happens.

```
void set1(uint32_t *__restrict__ out, size_t m)
{
    for (size_t i = 0; i < m; i++) {
        out[i] = 1;
    }
}
```

compiles to

```
        cbz     x1, .L1
        mov     x2, 0
        cntw    x3
        whilelo p0.s, xzr, x1
        mov     z0.s, #1
        .p2align 3,,7
.L3:
        st1w    z0.s, p0, [x0, x2, lsl 2]
        add     x2, x2, x3
        whilelo p0.s, x2, x1
        b.any   .L3
.L1:
        ret
```

(Here I believe the flag set from the loop header whilelo could also be used
for the jump but that doesn't same much in this case.)

However, no matter how I trie to replicate this using manually written code
using the sve intrinsics, there is always an additional cmp instruction
generated. The closest I can get is by replicating the structure of the
auto-vectorized loop as much as possible with,

```
void set2(uint32_t *__restrict__ out, size_t m)
{
    auto svelen = svcntw();
    auto v = svdup_u32(1);
    if (m != 0) {
        auto pg = svwhilelt_b32(0ul, m);
        for (size_t i = 0; i < m; i += svelen, pg = svwhilelt_b32(i, m)) {
            svst1(pg, &out[i], v);
        }
    }
}
```

which is compiled to

```
        cbz     x1, .L9
        mov     x2, 0
        cntw    x3
        whilelo p0.s, xzr, x1
        mov     z0.s, #1
        .p2align 3,,7
.L11:
        st1w    z0.s, p0, [x0, x2, lsl 2]
        add     x2, x2, x3
        whilelo p0.s, x2, x1
        cmp     x1, x2
        bhi     .L11
.L9:
        ret
```

which is literally the same code down to register allocation except that the
branch following the `whilelo` instruction is replaced with another comparison
and branch.


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